Who is the Festool or Woodworking (Hero) person you would most like to meet?

[CrazyLarry]

"who would you like to have a chat with".

Sounds like a euphemism for something entirely different, and that's quite a long list i imagine...

 

[nickao]

Paul Schurch

I won't say he is a huge Festool advocate and when I started following him I dont think he used the Festools. Now he has some video using them.

 

[roblg3]

tie.  both named Peter though...Halle and Parfitt (Alphabetically, of course [wink])

 

[nickao]

If we are talking strictly Festool Jerry Work just has to be at or near the top.

Back in 2008 Jerry wrote up an MFT table instructional that I think was 52 pages. It still holds up even though the MFT is different now. He was an early advocate of getting rid of the table saw, which I never agreed with, but he proved it could work.

 

[jacko9]

One regret I have is never traveling the few hours to meet James Krenov when he was alive and teaching at the College of the Redwoods within driving distance of my shop.  I've read all of his books and he is the person who most inspired my furniture building.

I did a weekend workshop with Sam Maloof that I will always remember and of the people out there today, Roy Underhill is a delight to watch with his tool history and also a very talented craftsman Timothy Rousseau from Appleton, Maine an instructor at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.  Tim publishes a lot of his work with details in Fine Woodworking magazine.

Jack

 

[NHSP759]

Peter Parfitt and Norm Abrams.

 

[jwaite550]

There are many people on this forum that I have learned many things from and they have helped me greatly and I thank them all.  I have to say Erock (Eric) has helped through all of his series of videos on Youtube as (MrBigerock) the most for what I am trying to learn.  The LR32 video was great for me.  I also thank you, Peter for all of the superb reviews and instruction you do.

 

[Stone Message]

Peter Parfitt and Norm Abrams.

Many thanks Chris for all of your support both here and through YouTube.

I need to say something about all of this...

When I created this thread I was toying with the idea of arranging a FOG get together here in the UK. Not an informal bash in the back garden (Ron - I admire you and your wife for the efforts that you have made doing just that) but something a little more elaborate. I needed a sponsor (or funding) and I also wanted to get a celebrity to attract FOGgers to the event.

I am a great fan of Norm Abram and would so love to meet him. I thought that he would be the "must have" guy to invite to the party. When I was new to the FOG I got a lot of help from the work of Paul Marcel and so he, with Norm, were my "dream team" for the FOG event. I have exchanged emails with Paul from time to time and he has always been very helpful and I count him as a (distant) friend.

I did not get the help that I sought for the big UK FOG bash and if anyone that I asked for help now steps in to remedy matters then great but if not then I will chalk it down to experience and me putting too much faith in companies rather than people. I have no intention of embarrassing anyone who was involved so don't ask about this detail.

So, this thread was all about drumming up some interest which I then though would lead to a big announcement that Norm or Paul (or both) would be here in the UK. Bang goes my chance of meeting either of them but if either of you guys read this - thank you for everything and you are my woodworking heroes.

Thanks everyone.

Peter

 

[sancho57]

Pers Svenson would be high on the list... Along with Guido Henn and Eric ( Boisetmetal)

 

[Phil Beckley]

Hi
    Not so much heroes but I have the utmost respect for those craftsmen who worked with timber when tools were limited but skill was very high such as the images below. In my home town these carvings are found on the main supports of one of the oldest timber framed buildings here in Bury st Edmunds from the early 1600's.
    They are relief carvings of the 'merchant' family who commissioned the building. The roof is made up of Queen and King post components with fantastic jointing and at nearly 500 years since being put together is still holding up.
    Will get some of the interior but need to ask permission as it is now a ...............sports shop!!
rg
Phil

 

[Gwerner]

Top of the list would be Norm since my fascination with woodworking and power tools started from watching the New Yankee Workshop as a teen.

I'd really like to spend a day in the shop with ERock too. I learned so much about using the LR32 from his youtube videos, I think I could really learn a lot more from him.

 

[AlexThePalex]

The Festool (Hero) I'd like to meet is myself. I still don't know him, so God, I'm dying to find out.

 

[peter halle]

The Festool (Hero) I'd like to meet is myself. I still don't know him, so God, I'm dying to find out.

I'd like to meet you to.  If you can find yourself.

All kidding aside, I would love to come overseas and meet a ton of you and experience an entirely different way of woodworking.

Peter

 

[Holmz]

I think it would have to be Noah, building an Arc with the equipment he had. Would have like to have seen that.

The Local tribes have similar flood stories. It is ubiquitous.

If you talk to him, then find out "what happened to the unicorns?"

 

[AlexThePalex]

All kidding aside, I would love to come overseas and meet a ton of you and experience an entirely different way of woodworking.

Same here Peter, same here. Not especially for the woodworking, but just to see America and its people. And would love to meet some of you FOG heros. [smile]

Ah well, one day....

 

[kfitzsimons]

I've always enjoyed Frank Pellow's posts. With his cabin and just general informative projects, I could sit down with him, have a beer, and look out into the woods and talk tools and woodworking. There are Norm, Tom, Tommy Mac and others I wouldn't pass up a visit with.

 

[HowardH]

Just saw this thread.  I think David Marks would be very high on my list.  He does incredible work. 

 

[Grakat]

I would like to have spent time doing woodworking with my grandfather. I was too young when he passed away to really benefit from his knowledge.

He was a builder in New Zealand around the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for building to a specification, not a price, and if it wasn't right he would pull whatever wasn't right down and do it again. I remember when his eyesight failed and he couldn't do woodworking anymore. He passed away a few years later.

People say that I take a lot after him, and my middle name is his first name.

 

[jasen]

[member=59890]Grakat[/member]
You brought some great flooding memories for me with my grandfather who passed away (94 years old) when I was 14 years old . He was Danish and immigrated to Australia before WW1 and fought with the aussies and after the war migrated to Dunedin NZ. He had a carpenter / cabinet shop  in the "Octagon" (main street of town) in the 1930's.

I remember him making his own wooden clogs, cabinets, stools, woodworking benches and anything else that was wooden. To this day we still have his stools. Simplicity but solid. I remember all his woodworking tools and his bench saw etc etc.

It's funny when you get older, you think about these things more. I too wish I spent time woodworking with my grandfather.

Sorry for the rant but great to have someone feel the same way.
Cheers

Thanks for

 

[Grakat]

[member=61072]jasen[/member]

No apology required mate, sounds like a similar story to mine. Goes to show our heroes are sometimes a lot closer to home than you think.

Thanks for sharing.