swatkins
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2011
- Location
- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
Richard has agreed to return to Texas ( will he never learn ) and teach another basic/advanced class. The dates for the class are February 16th through the 20th 2018.
The class will consist of the standard 3 day class and you have the option to stay for two extra days. Last year everyone stayed for all 5 days.
This is the Fourth class I have hosted here in my shop just northwest of Houston. A few members of the 2015 class and 2016 class also attended the 2017 class and we really had a great time.
We will probably have room for 10 to 12 students as I have been forced to expand the climate controlled area of my shop (having a big ass planer sure takes up a LOT of space) and there is just not enough room in the old space.
New this year is a AC/Heater unit for the main area of the shop. Even though last year's class was held in February Richard worked us so hard we were a little warm I can report the shop is nice and cool as I have been building a new Kitchen in the main shop and the AC is keeping me cool even with the 100 degree days!
Right now I am reserving 5 slots for returning students. If you are a student that attended the 2015, 2016 or 2017 class and want to attend this class please let me know soon!
This year Richard's son is taking care of the reservations so please PM or email me and I will give you his contact information.
Since I got the Planer (The Beast) running I've been planing straight edges and surface plates for Richard's customers. As a little bonus if you attend this year's class and buy a straight edge from Richard, I'll plane it for just a small donation to the shop. Last year everyone kept me busy planning all sorts of things from Bridgeport tables to 6" square surface plates.
I have all sorts of machines that Richard uses to demonstrate measuring and adjusting. All students spend the first day getting to know each other and learning the basics of scraping. The returning students usually spend the day brushing up on their scraping and figure out how they will attack the project they bring along.
This last year has seen some major changes to my tool inventory with the departure of the BOSS 5, B&S horizontal, Moore Jig Bore and a Heavy 10. The planner took up a lot of shop space and duplicates some of the functions that were performed by the other tools. Selling the machines freed up capital, and more importantly space, to bring in a more modern ( for me ) Bridgeport Torq Cut 22 CNC mill. So this year we will have Richard show us how to measure, test and repair a machine that is different from the others we have worked on in the past years. Even though this machine has a ton of electrical and electronic parts ( I can handle all of that Richard ) it still runs on precision parts and I'm sure we can all learn some valuable tricks.
I welcome you to my shop for a week of intensive learning, good fellowship and a lot of fun!
Steve Watkins
The class will consist of the standard 3 day class and you have the option to stay for two extra days. Last year everyone stayed for all 5 days.
This is the Fourth class I have hosted here in my shop just northwest of Houston. A few members of the 2015 class and 2016 class also attended the 2017 class and we really had a great time.
We will probably have room for 10 to 12 students as I have been forced to expand the climate controlled area of my shop (having a big ass planer sure takes up a LOT of space) and there is just not enough room in the old space.
New this year is a AC/Heater unit for the main area of the shop. Even though last year's class was held in February Richard worked us so hard we were a little warm I can report the shop is nice and cool as I have been building a new Kitchen in the main shop and the AC is keeping me cool even with the 100 degree days!
Right now I am reserving 5 slots for returning students. If you are a student that attended the 2015, 2016 or 2017 class and want to attend this class please let me know soon!
This year Richard's son is taking care of the reservations so please PM or email me and I will give you his contact information.
Since I got the Planer (The Beast) running I've been planing straight edges and surface plates for Richard's customers. As a little bonus if you attend this year's class and buy a straight edge from Richard, I'll plane it for just a small donation to the shop. Last year everyone kept me busy planning all sorts of things from Bridgeport tables to 6" square surface plates.
I have all sorts of machines that Richard uses to demonstrate measuring and adjusting. All students spend the first day getting to know each other and learning the basics of scraping. The returning students usually spend the day brushing up on their scraping and figure out how they will attack the project they bring along.
This last year has seen some major changes to my tool inventory with the departure of the BOSS 5, B&S horizontal, Moore Jig Bore and a Heavy 10. The planner took up a lot of shop space and duplicates some of the functions that were performed by the other tools. Selling the machines freed up capital, and more importantly space, to bring in a more modern ( for me ) Bridgeport Torq Cut 22 CNC mill. So this year we will have Richard show us how to measure, test and repair a machine that is different from the others we have worked on in the past years. Even though this machine has a ton of electrical and electronic parts ( I can handle all of that Richard ) it still runs on precision parts and I'm sure we can all learn some valuable tricks.
I welcome you to my shop for a week of intensive learning, good fellowship and a lot of fun!
Steve Watkins