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Last year before the WIA annual event I posted “Covington, Kentucky, 1913: A Family Mystery” (which can be read here). This extensive post brings my research into the history of my father and prolific American inventor, C. W. Vogt (1891-1973), up to date, with archival photos and documents. Vogt Family Background It is worthwhile […] Vogt Toolworks. Does that sound familiar to you? Have you heard that name before? I hadn’t either until this afternoon. Talking to Don Schroder, the Artistic director at Popular Woodworking, about possibly signing up for the Woodworking in America event this fall to offer my fledgling shooting board and a few other items to the […] Precision Shooting For the benefit of my curious niece, Gina, who has asked “what’s a shooting board?” here is a definition and some pictures. From Webster: “(Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.” So, […] The "Super Chute" and accessories by Tico Vogt. I just sent my third prototype of a ramped shooting board to Ron Brese (www.breseplane.com). He has been very encouraging in e-mail exchanges over the last month about this project of mine to develop a high quality ramped shooting board with attachments for sale on […] The molding profile I wanted for the top was not readily gotten from router bits, so the block plane was the tool for the job. The shape was drawn on each corner and the end grain worked first. On the exit side of the board I worked to the shape and there was then no […] Some custom woodworking jobs have been rewarding artistically, some financially, some have brought me in contact with intriguing people, others have delivered abundant servings of humble pie, and a select few have been quite bizarre, namely this one. Several years back local sculptor and artist Alice Manzi (www.manzisculpture.com) commissioned me to make a […] The fun part of this design is making the legs appear to go through the shelves. The method I settled on is doweling, again inspired by Krenov who used them in his cabinetwork. Looking ahead to the assembly stage makes you realize that you need a way to faithfully track the individual leg pieces and […] Everything starts from an inspiration. Inspired by practical necessity, financial need, creative concept, or various combinations thereof, we then set out to make something. In the case of this recently fabricated desk organizer I was inspired to improve upon a piece I had made once before (creative) and also to begin to use up some […] Why a woodworker Part 3 Final “I derive a certain pleasure from an awareness of our gift of wood. Beside giving me it’s chemical and utilitarian benefits, like the fireplace that ‘warms the soul as well as the body,’ the tree and its wood are a most necessary part of my life’s aesthetic enjoyment.” (Eric […] Why a woodworker. Part 2. My maternal grandfather, Clarence. M. Ballou, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. The Ballous were one of the earliest New England families. He graduated from Cornell in 1907 with a specialty in Mechanical Engineering. His working career in the steel and railroad industries began in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where […] |
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