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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Crashing the Party II

At my favorite Munich beer garden, the Hofbraeu Keller Biergarten.
Although I am not enrolled in the class this week at Dictum with Tom Fidgen and his bowsaw, I found out where they were after I got home from work tonight and imposed myself.

From left to right in the photo is a cool guy from Darmstadt whose Roubo bench is in a shop even smaller than mine, Tom Fidgen, a really nice guy from the Netherlands and the world famous Austrian Alex.

Sorry I forgot your names already, guys.  I'm really bad that way.  Perhaps you could help me out in the comments.

What I really should be writing about is building chairs, now that it is June.

I still fully intend to build a pair of chairs this month, and invite anyone else who wants to build one to let me know.  I'll post pictures, links to your blog, Instagram, whatever.  I think that this might be a fun way to build a chair, along with a hoard of internet builders.  I especially would like to post your photos of your build if this is your first chair ever.

Happy June!
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 3, 2015 at 7:22 AM

    I'll give it a shot.

    Jose

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    1. Brian EveJune 4, 2015 at 9:36 PM

      Cool! I'm looking forward to see what you come up with.

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  2. UnknownJune 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM

    Hi Brian

    I am very sorry to let you know that I have to pull out of this chair build. I still think it is an excellent idea and will love to joy one in future. My excuse is that I got presented with an opportunity to get a whole heap of really good wood for free if I build a big table out of some of it for a friend. You might have seen the post I wrote about it.

    I will however follow your build closely. You continue to make me jealous by hanging out with legends like Tom Fidgen.

    Sorry again mate.
    Gerhard

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    1. Brian EveJune 4, 2015 at 9:40 PM

      Oh, well. It's not like a paid commission or anything. It is annoying when life gets in the way.

      When you get around to building chairs to match that table, we'll all eagerly be watching.

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  3. UnknownJune 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM

    Hi Brian, the man right of Tom is also an Alexander, like the "Austrian Alex" :) , but he comes from the Netherlands :)). It was great evening in this perfect beer garden and I asked myself what you discussed with Tom. I have a good spy-foto of you both - but I don´t know how to upload it to this comment. I will email it to you.
    And I am sorry that I also have to quite the chair project: My excuse is going next week to Slovenia with the students and I doubt that I can finish the project in the last week of June - we will see, maybe I am wrong.
    All the best for everybody building the chair - a great idea - Alex the Austrian

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    1. Brian EveJune 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM

      Hi Alex!

      Thanks for the photo you emailed me. I will post it soon with some of the other pics I took at the workshop. What a nice class that must have been.

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