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Description:
(They are in chronological order according to our 2010 schedule)
Making a Shaker Pedestal Table with Tom McLaughlin
Experience Woodworking 101 with Tom McLaughlin
Bowl Turning 101 with Graham oakes
Bowl Turning 102 with Graham Oakes
Experience Woodworking 102 with Tom McLaughlin
Chairmaking with Tom McLaughlin
Making a Pencil Post Bed with Tom McLaughlin
Veneering Workshop with Terry Moore
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Making a Shaker Pedestal Table
The small round table that is the focus of this class is considered by many to be the most beautifully designed table ever made by the Shakers. The original table, made at the Hancock Shaker Village, epitomizes the mimimalist perfection and craftsmanship of the Shakers.
In this 3-day beginner to intermediate class, you will learn how to combine the use of light power tools and hand tools to achieve historic results. By class end, you will take home your own Curly Maple masterpiece, ready for finishing.
Design considerations
Sliding dovetail joinery
Wedged morise and tenon joinery
Bandsawing and shaping the curved legs
Sharpening and using a cabinet scraper
Tuning and using a handplane
Spokeshave, rasping, and scraping tecniques
Pattern routing techniques
Finishing approaches
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Instructor: Tom
McLaughlin Dates: June 10-12 (Thurs-Sat) Tuition: $390,
plus $135 materials Class
size: 5-8 Check status: June
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Experience Woodworking 101
During this comprehensive 5-day class, open to all skill levels, you will gain the essential knowledge base for making beautiful fine furniture. The week is full of the methods, approaches, and techniques you need to build a solid, foundational start in fine woodworking. As an added bonus, these core skills will be acquired as you make a classic Shaker style end table that is yours to take home at the end of the class. Those with previous experience, as well as beginners, have raved about this course, noting how much the week added to their woodworking understanding, enjoyment and skills. We offer this class twice each season due to its popularity, so sign up early.
Safe and effective machine use
Design considerations
Selecting and buying wood
Mortise and tenon joinery
Effective table saw jigs
Sharpening, using Handplanes and chisels
Layout and handcut dovetails
Dovetailing a drawer to fit an opening
Sharpening and using a cabinet scraper
Applying a beautiful finish
Table Dimensions: 21"W x 18"D x 27"H
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Instructor: Tom
McLaughlin Dates: June 14-18 (Mon-Fri) or Sept 14,16,21,23 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) and Sept 11,18,25 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM) Tuition: $670,
plus $170 materials Class
limit: 5-8 Check status: June Sept.
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Bowl Turning 101
Few types of fine woodworking are so immediately satisfying as turning a bowl on a lathe. Imagine producing finished works of art in just a few hours. Like a potter’s hands on a lump of clay, using turning chisels you will learn to reveal the beautiful bowl inside a rough hunk of wood. Woodturning wizard Graham Oakes will demonstrate the best methods for achieving great results. This class is geared toward beginners, a no pressure environment where everyone can work at their own pace. By the end of this 2-evenings-and-a-Saturday course, you will have multiple sample creations to take home with you as well as the knowledge of turning a bowl from start to finish.
Tool technique and construction
Chucking methods
Lathe safety
Design considerations
Wood selection
Finishing options
Regarding tools for the turning sessions: If you have your own chisels, please bring them with you. If not, a limited number of turning chisels will be available for you to use. Prior to the class you will be given a suggested tool list to bring with you.
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Instructor: Graham Oakes Dates: June 22,24 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) and June 26 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM) Tuition: $270, plus $70 materials Class
limit: 6-8 Check status: June
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Bowl Turning 102
In this intermediate two-day turning class, a great follow-up to Bowl Turning 101, students will be walked through turning a variety of bowls utilizing “green” or fresh cut wood as a medium. During the class students will learn the proper techniques for chainsawing logs to get the most from them. You will become comfortable and more confident with harvesting your own turning blanks and will turn several finished pieces by the end of the class. Who knows, after the next wind storm you may find your next masterpiece!
Using a chainsaw to cut logs into manageable pieces
Sawing logs effectively to yield highly figured material
Sawing crotch and burl logs
Preparing and handling green timber
Approches for turning natural (bark) edge bowls
Techniques for turning and finishing green wood
Regarding tools for the turning sessions: If you have your own chisels, please bring them with you. If not, a limited number of turning chisels will be available for you to use. Prior to the class you will be given a suggested tool list to bring with you.
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Instructor: Graham Oakes Dates: August 6-7 (Fri-Sat)
Tuition: $270, plus $70 materials Class
limit: 6-8 Check status: Aug.
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Experience Woodworking 102
The perfect follow-up to Experience Woodworking 101, this class focuses on the core skills related to making traditional case pieces (think any furniture type that begins with a “box-shape”). In this 5-day class, geared to advanced beginner/ intermediate skill levels, you will learn the solid traditional techniques used in making a chest or drawers. You will gain a level of mastery and confidence with hand-cut dovetail skills. As an added bonus you will be learning these skills while making your own small “collections” chest, a sure heirloom that will be a great compliment atop a full-sized chest of drawers. The skills you learn in this class will equip you to make all kinds of chests of your own in the future!
Design considerations
Selecting and buying wood
Effective us of marking and layout tools
Handcut-dovetail joining a case
Sliding dovetails using jig techniques
Sharpening tuing and using handplanes and chisels
Making handcut dovetailed drawers
Fitting a drawer precisely to an opening
Sharpening and using a cabinet scraper
Finishing approaches
Collections Chest Dimensions: 19"W x 10"D x 7"H
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Instructor: Tom
McLaughlin Dates: Aug. 9-13 (Mon-Fri) Tuition: $670,
plus $190 materials Class
limit: 5-8 Check status: Aug.
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Chairmaking
For many, chairmaking is the ultimate woodworking experience. But with all those compound angles and curved parts, the prospect of making a chair is too intimidating to most woodworkers. But it need not be that way. In this 5-day course, Tom will reduce the process of chairmaking into understandable stages, while focusing on the study of classic, mortise and tenoned, traditional chair design. As a bonus, you will apply your new knowledge and skills by making your own contemporary style side chair. As time permits, the chair will be assembled in class and completed at home. This will likely be the most rewarding project you will have undertaken and conquered. (Note: The Experience Woodworking class, or equivalent experience, is a prerequisite for this class).
Design considerations for comfort and style
Drawing techniques
Making good patterns you can use
Mortise and tenon joinery
Simplifying compound joinery
Clever table saw jigs
Clever table saw jigs
Hand tool skills to add detail and value
Upholstery options
Finishing approaches
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Instructor: Tom
McLaughlin Dates: Aug 30-Sept 3 (Mon-Fri) Tuition: $670,
plus $195 materials Class
size: 5-8 Check status: Aug.
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Making a Pencil Post Bed
In this 5-day class you will learn techniques to make a terrific traditional style pencil post bed. Everything about this bed is fine. The posts are beautifully proportioned and will be personalized with your choice of a cove or “lambs tongue” detail. The Headboard will also be personalized to one of several shape options. Rails attach to posts through the traditional method: bolted mortise and tenon. Special presentations on hand tool use and sharpening will be included. Personalize your bed making it of solid Cherry or Curly Maple and in your choice of double, queen, or king size. When completed, you will have a new place to sleep, and a bed to last generations.
Design considerations
Techniques and jigs for shaping the octagonal tapered posts
Carving a lamb's tongue detail
Sharpening, tuning and using hand tools
Techniques for making the mortise and tenon joinery on the posts and rails
Buying and installing the traditional bed bolts, bed irons, and bolt covers
Designing, making patters and shaping the headboard
Finishing approaches and techniques
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Instructor: Tom
McLaughlin Dates: Oct. 12-16 (Tues-Sat) Tuition: $970,
plus materials: for solid Cherry = $940 (double), $990 (queen), $1090 (king). To substitute solid Curly Maple, add $100 to any size. Class
size: 4-6 Check status: Oct.
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Veneering Workshop
After this 2-evenings-and-a-Saturday encounter with furniture master and expert veneer man Terry Moore, a new world of artistry and craftsmanship will be opened to you. Many of the finest furniture pieces made throughout history were made using veneers. A fact unknown to most is that the finest figured lumber, burls and crotches, bypass the lumberyards and are sent directly to veneer mills. In other words, these beautiful materials are only available to those who know how to use them. In this class, Terry will guide you through time-tested techniques to using veneers effectively. You will enjoy lots of hands-on practice as you decoratively veneer two tabletops: an 18x18” book matched top with a border, and a striking 18” round sunburst top. As an added bonus, they are yours to take home at the end of the class.
Purchasing, handling, and flattening veneer
Essential veneering tools
Cutting, matching, and taping techniques
Designing and laying out classic patterns
Choosing the best adhesive
Using a vacuum press
Correcting mistakes and unexpected problems
Border and edge band techniques
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Instructors: Terry
Moore Dates: Oct. 19,21 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) and Oct. 23 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM) Tuition: $270,
plus $90 materials Class
size: 6-8 Check status: Oct.
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