Back by popular demand! Learn how to make your own hypertufa
pots…it’s easy and fun!

Presenters: Stephanie Polsley-Bruner & Kristin Beane Sullivan

9:30am FREE

Design a garden that prevents runoff, harvest your own rain water with
rain barrels, and more water-savvy garden ideas!

Presenter: Marcia Leeper

9:30am FREE

How to buy the best plants and put them in the ground so they’ll
take off faster than ever.

Presenter: Jim Childs

9:30am FREE

Make it easy on yourself this year! Find out how this pro saves time
and money while still creating a fantastic garden.

Presenter: Marcia Leeper

9:30am FREE

Stop replanting your roses every year! Meet the best roses
for our climate and learn how to grow them so they’ll come back
for years.

Presenters: Sherri Ribbey & Jim Childs

9:30am FREE

Grow gorgeous containers this year with our tips and design ideas.
At our annual container event, enjoy one-on-one help putting together
your own custom containers.

Presenters: Marcia Leeper & the Garden Gate staff

9:30am FREE

Whether you’re a newbie or just need a refresher, we’ll help you grow the best-tasting edibles this year. Get our recommended varieties, soil, feeding,
pest tips and a monthly to do list.

Presenters: Sherri Ribbey, Amanda Wurzinger, and Marcia Leeper

5:30pm FREE

Any doubts I had about using a plane to fine tune joinery went out the window when I finally bought a good shoulder plane from Lee Valley Veritas. It works so well for paring down a too-tight tenon or cleaning out an uneven rabbet, that I wonder sometimes how I managed so long without it.

During tonight’s seminar, Randy Maxey gives us some tips on using five different hand planes to fix or clean up joinery. He’s a fan of old, refurbished Stanley planes, plus he’s the proud owner of a few of Lee Valley Veritas planes.  His favorite is the versatile block plane, but he’ll also take out his smoother (a Stanley No. 3), shoulder and bullnose planes, and the “Jack of all Trades” Stanley No. 5 general-purpose plane.

There are two bonus downloads. One is from ShopNotes: Using a Shooting Board and the other is from Woodsmith: Pocket Planes

Tonight’s seminar is one of those seminars that started out to be one thing and ended up being another. Well, actually just a shorter version of the first idea.

Back in November, when I was planning the winter/spring schedule of seminars, I also happened to be working on an article for ShopNotes called “Our Top 10 Workbench Helpers.” And, as things usually go, the original idea was changed a little.

By the time the issue was published the article turned out to be called “Top 5 Workbench Upgrades!” So what I hoped to be a full hour-long program will probably last a little over half that time. Someone suggested talking politics to fill the hour…I don’t think that’s going to happen!

There is one bonus download for this week and it’s from Woodsmith: Our Top 10 Workbench Accessories

Here is the additional bonus download, as promised: Adustable Shooting Board

Box joints are so easy to make it’s no wonder they’re used on so many projects. In ShopNotes No. 98, we used them to build a Curved-Lid Toolbox. As a part of that issue, there was a great little three page article called Better Box Joints. All that’s need to make box joints are a table saw and an auxiliary miter gauge fence with an index key. The secret is in the spacing relationship between the blade, the width of the key and the distance between the two.

Bryan Nelson will demonstrate this simple jig this week during his seminar at the Woodsmith Store.

There is one bonus download this week: Curved-Lid Tool Chest, Pt. 1
Curved-Lid Tool Chest, Pt. 2
Curved-Lid Tool Chest, Pt. 3