Joe Bourbois
03-07-2004, 12:34 AM
David Marks was at our local Woodcraft yesterday. He had a morning 2 hour demonstration, an afternoon 2 hour demonstration, and a 1 hour Q&A to end the day. I made it to the afternoon session and the Q&A, which turned out to be a 3 hour demo-Q&A combination.
Marks is a very skilled woodworker, and very passionate about it. That came across very clearly. He has filmed 91 episodes of Woodworks for DIY and is currently on hiatus. He says that DIY might not order any more shows and he seemed pretty disappointed about that.
Some interesting things from the session:
The shop on the show is his and is about 1600 square feet.
He uses Forrest to sharpen his planer and jointer blades. He asks to back bevel the blades for a net cutting angle of 10 degrees. He says the back bevel helps with figured wood.
He uses the Woodworker 2, and the Woodworker 1 for plywood. He sometimes uses a Dewalt rip blade.
He uses General's Sealacell and Arm-R-Seal on almost all his projects for the show. 1 or 2 coats of Sealacell, the 3 or 4 of Arm-R-Seal. All but the last Arm-R-Seal are glossy and the last is Satin. He had one of his projects from the show there, the treasure box (pic below) and the finish was smooth and silky.
The most expensive piece of furniture he built and sold was a table for $18,000. It's pictured below.
The session was great and he was very easy to talk to. I got to speak to him for a little while while he autographed a Woodcraft catalog for me. I forgot my camera, so I had to snap a few pics with my cell phone.
I'll post more later when I have time if anyone is interested.
pics 1-3 from are from the session.
pic 4 is the project he brought
pic 5 is the table he sold for $18k
Marks is a very skilled woodworker, and very passionate about it. That came across very clearly. He has filmed 91 episodes of Woodworks for DIY and is currently on hiatus. He says that DIY might not order any more shows and he seemed pretty disappointed about that.
Some interesting things from the session:
The shop on the show is his and is about 1600 square feet.
He uses Forrest to sharpen his planer and jointer blades. He asks to back bevel the blades for a net cutting angle of 10 degrees. He says the back bevel helps with figured wood.
He uses the Woodworker 2, and the Woodworker 1 for plywood. He sometimes uses a Dewalt rip blade.
He uses General's Sealacell and Arm-R-Seal on almost all his projects for the show. 1 or 2 coats of Sealacell, the 3 or 4 of Arm-R-Seal. All but the last Arm-R-Seal are glossy and the last is Satin. He had one of his projects from the show there, the treasure box (pic below) and the finish was smooth and silky.
The most expensive piece of furniture he built and sold was a table for $18,000. It's pictured below.
The session was great and he was very easy to talk to. I got to speak to him for a little while while he autographed a Woodcraft catalog for me. I forgot my camera, so I had to snap a few pics with my cell phone.
I'll post more later when I have time if anyone is interested.
pics 1-3 from are from the session.
pic 4 is the project he brought
pic 5 is the table he sold for $18k