Uvalde, Texas
Window Craft Outpost No. 001 Has Taken Root
What happened in Uvalde was not a workshop tour. It was not a pop-up. It was not a one-time event that made noise for a week and disappeared.
What happened in Uvalde was the planting of an outpost.
That means something was left behind here—tools, systems, training, and a working foundation for Window Craft that can continue serving the historic house community long after the first round of work was finished.
Why Uvalde Matters
Historic house communities are not failing because nobody cares.
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They are failing because the skilled hands required to care for them have nearly disappeared.
Plenty of people admire old houses. Plenty of people talk about preservation. But admiration is not capacity, and talk is not production.
Uvalde mattered because it became a place where that problem was answered in practical form.
Not with words only.
With tools. With training. With systems. With work.
Phase 1:
Foundation Before Fruit
Before any training can happen, before any sash could be built, before any window could be restored, there had to be a platform to work from - a foundation.
That meant setup. Layout. Tool placement. Workflow. Friction removal.
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This is the part most people never see, but it is the part that makes everything else possible.
What was built here first was not product.
It was the ability to produce.
Watch the Outpost Take Shape
This is what it takes before the work even begins.
Phase 2:
Intro to Sash Making
The sash is not a side issue. It is central.
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If you cannot build it, repair it, and replicate it, then one of the most important forms of real local capacity is still missing.
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This is where that began to change.
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The work here was not about receiving information. It was about stepping into process—layout, joinery, assembly, and sequence.
This is where the work starts to become real.
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Inside the Intro to Sash Making Workshop
This the backbone of Window Craft that makes everything else possible
Phase 3:
Intro to Window Craft (Formerly the Total Window Makeover)
This is where everything comes together.
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Mechanics. Sash. Frame. Finish. Assembly.
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This is the nuts and bolts of the entirety of Window Craft​, where the window is broken down into it's component parts and understood as a system, where the window is made alive again.
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This is the wine press.
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