Saw Horses For North House Folk School

Early this year I taught my first little course at North House. It was the instructors weekend, where some cross referencing of skills was encouraged by short little courses. In many conversations and a couple of group sessions, the wisdom gathered by many veteran instructors was pooled and exchanged and cast broadly in the spirit of improving our teaching.

I had one student!

And much transitory opportunist help.

And this help was necessary, since the idea was to have a small corral of new sawhorses for the school. Which was communally accomplished!

This is a design I built in my first weeks as an apprentice in Germany.

Even though it looks quite complex, the layout is pretty basic.

These compound cuts were all derived from a full scale drawing, created on a third of a sheet of plywood.

Since there were many pieces to make, I learned a lot about speeding up the process, and having but one student made for great interplay in tweaking the teaching approach.

It is also the reason there are so few pictures… But go on up to North House and find them for yourself, happily strewn around campus steadily doing duty.