The third day of Woodworking in America was much shorter and not as well attended. The Marketplace was closed and most of the presenters were heading home. The presenters for the day were mainly the staff of Popular Woodworking, plus Christopher Schwarz and Ron Herman.
The first presentation I went to for the day was Christopher Schwarz discussing 12 rules for Traditional Tool Chests. It was an informative lesson giving reasons behind his design choices for The Anarchist's Tool Chest. It went a little over an hour.
Then there was Bob Lang's Sketchup Goldmine. I don't even remember what was different about this class from the first, but I learned enough about Sketchup over the weekend to get started working on something right away when I got home. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I had a book on my desk "Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware." In in I found a sketch of a Sewing Table. The drawings in the book barely give half of the measurements of the piece and only show a front and side view. Nothing about the internal framing. So if I decide to build anything out of it, I'm definitely going to have to make a Sketchup model first.
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