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Founded by Nick Offerman, we are a Los Angeles based woodworking collective specialising in Custom Fine Furniture, Live-Edge Slabs, Canoes and bespoke projects.
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Misadventures in sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. $ 37.00 Add...
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We are designers and builders of custom wood furniture and...
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In an interview with the LA Times, Nick talks about the...
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Offerman Woodshop is a small collective of woodworkers and...
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Offerman Woodshop’s signature line of lighting and furniture...
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Lucky Offerman Gift Cards. Don't be a selfish ass. $ 50.00 –...
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Offerman Y-Strap Shop Apron. Keeps the dust off your greasy...
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Spend your nights of lucid dreaming in an cocoon wrought...
- Handful of Flowers Mother's Day Card
- Mom Can Do It! Mother's Day Card
- Maki's Jewelry Box
- OWS Cribbage Board
- Walnut Slab Table
- Maddy's Waterfall Slab
- Good Clean Fun *autographed
- OWS Cutting Board
- OWS Bookshelf
- OWS T-Shirt
- OWS Yes Box
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play *autographed
- OWS Whisky Box
- Paddle Your Own Canoe *autographed
- Corngratulations Card
- Offerman Y-Strap Shop Apron
- OWS Cap
- Anniversary Card
- Elm Record Player
- Baby Crib
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Jun 9, 2015 · Back in April, Nick Offerman —the mustache-wearing, red-meat-eating, wood-working everyman who reached cult status as Parks and Recreation ’s Ron Swanson—invited VF Hollywood to his...
- 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...
Actor, Author, Humorist, Woodworker. Welcome friend, You've stumbled upon the internet front porch of yours truly, Nick Offerman. If you’re new to this neck of the woods, I'm an actor, author, humorist, proprietor of a charismatic woodshop, and proud husband and dishwasher to the world’s most powerful woman – Megan Mullally.
Nov 17, 2016 · 5-Minute Listen. Playlist. Comedian and actor Nick Offerman became a star as the Libertarian Ron Swanson in the hit sitcom, Parks and Recreation. He's also pretty good in the woodshop. In fact,...
He’s been featured in woodworking magazines, and his woodworking business (The Offerman Woodshop) is staffed by fellow woodworkers who turn out everything from carved spoons and pinball tables to canoes and fine furniture. His new book is titled: GOOD CLEAN FUN: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. —Chad McClung.
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