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Stump Side Table. Founded by Nick Offerman, we are a Los Angeles based woodworking collective specialising in Custom Fine Furniture, Live-Edge Slabs, Canoes and bespoke projects.
- Store
Misadventures in sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. $ 37.00 Add...
- Custom
We are designers and builders of custom wood furniture and...
- News
Nick Offerman writes about his love affair with plywood,...
- About
About Us. Offerman Woodshop is a small collective of...
- Hearth
Offerman Woodshop’s signature line of lighting and furniture...
- Library
Lucky Offerman Gift Cards. Don't be a selfish ass. $ 50.00 –...
- Shop Fashion
Offerman Y-Strap Shop Apron. Keeps the dust off your greasy...
- Slabs
Welcome to our humble slab inventory. All our slabs are...
- Beds
Spend your nights of lucid dreaming in an cocoon wrought...
- Frequently Asked Questions
Some books we love are Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, Soul...
- Good Clean Fun *autographed
- OWS Cap
- OWS Whisky Box
- Whiskey Coasters
- OWS Cribbage Board
- OWS Bookshelf
- Walnut Slab Table
- Maddy's Waterfall Slab
- OWS Cutting Board
- OWS T-Shirt
- OWS Yes Box
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play *autographed
- Paddle Your Own Canoe *autographed
- Corngratulations Card
- Anniversary Card
- Offerman Y-Strap Shop Apron
- Elm Record Player
- Baby Crib
- Store
- Catching Up with An Old Friend
- It Starts with The Wood
- Inside The Shop
- Lathe and The Wall of Jigs
- Respect The Classics
- Oldest Tool in The Shop
- Safety First
- Miter Saw Station
- Never Enough Clamps
- Getting Started
After a visit to the AskTOH workshop in 2015, Kevin was excited to visit Nick’s shop. The outside is an unassuming building of corrugated metal panels, and it is surrounded by other small workshops housing various tradespeople and artisans.
As a hiker and general outdoorsman, Nick doesn’t like the thought of cutting down trees simply for the craft of woodworking. He works with suppliers up and down the West Coast to find trees that have either been felled naturally or need to be removed for construction projects. Before they become a beautiful tabletop, they are stored as large slabs....
Nick’s shop has been slowly added to over the last 16 years. The decorations on the walls all have meaning—from relics of Nick’s childhood on an Illinois farm to props from his role as Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation. A sturdy workbench and plenty of well-labeled drawers are set up with hand tool projects in mind.
Nick finds the lathe to be a good starter woodworking power tool. While saws require you to move the wood through a spinning piece of steel, which can be dangerous, a lathe allows you to bring the steel to the wood and control the cut. Nick’s lathe is a Oneway 2436. Behind the lathe, various jigs and templates are stored for replicating everything ...
Nick is very fond of vintage power tools. His favorites were manufactured in America and are rock solid—made mostly of cast iron. The tools pictured here help prepare a rough cut piece of wood for finer applications. From left, an 18″ planer manufactured by Powermatic from 1983, a 1963 jointer manufactured by Northfield, and a newer Laguna 24 band ...
The oldest power tool in the shop is this drill press, which was built in 1943 by Delta. It was built so solidly that it hasn’t required any maintenance in the time Nick has owned it. The drill press has become such a part of the shop that it even has a name—Bill.
Nick also stresses the importance of safety in any shop—whether it’s the use of proper protective equipment like eye and hearing protection, or safe technology built into some of the newer tools. His shop includes a SawStop Table Saw, pictured in the foreground. It will detect if the blade comes in contact with human flesh and immediately drop the ...
Another piece of newer equipment is the compound sliding miter saw, a Kapex, manufactured by Festool, which can make very precise cross cuts. The miter saw has 8 feet of outfeed support on both the left and right sides of the blade to accommodate very long boards. In a small shop, space is valuable, so the area above the saw is reserved for the sto...
While it’s easy to joke about the number of clamps Tom Silva has on display in the AskTOHworkshop, any woodworker knows that you can never have enough clamps! Here are Nick’s clamp racks, which include various styles and lengths to accommodate any project.
As part of the AskTOH visit, Nick offers some advice for woodworkers getting started. It can be as simple as cleaning up a small piece of maple with a hand saw, a block plane, and some sandpaper to make a cutting board. With the right prep work and a coat of oil, a basic project like this can be enough to hook somebody on woodworking. Nick offers e...
Jun 9, 2015 · June 9, 2015. Inside Nick Offerman’s Woodshop, Technology Gripes, and R-Rated Writing Habit. 1 / 19. Nick Offerman in his East Los Angeles woodshop, which he has been renting for about 15 years ...
Over the past few weeks, our Offerman Woodshop series has explored different facets of Nick Offerman’s wood collective, including the backstory, the projects...
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