Class Evaluation Final payment Gift Certificates Mailing List	Click on the Workshop Title to access the Description: (They are in chronological order according to our 2008 schedule)    Precision With Hand Tools with Garrett Hack    Making a Classic Shaker Rocking Chair with Peter Hindle    Joinery Essentials with Tom McLaughlin    Experience Woodworking 101 with Tom McLaughlin    Spindle Turning Basics with Jon Siegel    Turning Bowls with Graham Oakes    Basic Veneering with Terry Moore    Speed Carving with Clive Hamilton    Experience Woodworking 201 with Terry Moore    Making a Windsor Stool with Jon Siegel    Make a Real Queen Anne Table with Tom McLaughlin    Decorative Details with Garrett Hack    Woodfinishing Overview with Tom McLaughlin Precision With Hand Tools After these three days in the shop with master craftsman and hand tool specialist Garrett Hack*, your enjoyment and confidence using hand tools will dramatically increase. Hand tools open up new vistas of efficiency, accuracy, and pleasure for woodworkers, even those with modest skills. In this course, Garrett leads you through a series of exercises, based on typical furniture making techniques, which expand and refine your hand tool skills. These include flattening boards to polished smoothness, fairing curves, fitting drawer faces, making moldings, jointing and chamfering edges, cutting joinery, and doing an inlay. Discussion covers tuning and use of a wide variety of planes, marking tools, chisels and saws. You will also work with at least two different types of wood to feel how each responds to the tools. *Garrett is regularly featured as a leading contributor to Fine Woodworking magazine and he has written two excellent books on the topic: The Handplane Book, 2003; Classic Hand Tools, 2001 TOPICS INCLUDE: Tuning and use of a wide variety of planes, marking tools, chisels and saws Work with at least two different types of wood to feel how each responds to the tools Flattening boards to polished smoothness Fairing curves Fitting drawer faces Making moldings Jointing and chamfering edges Doing an inlay photo forthcoming Instructor:    Garrett Hack Dates:           May 15-17 Tuition:          $390, plus $55 materials Class limit:       12       Check status:   May Register via fax or mail Making a Classic Shaker Rocking Chair Patterned in the style of the Shaker #6, this classic rocker is the real deal, not a cheap kit to assemble. You will be shaping and making each part from genuine curly maple. In this 4-day beginner to intermediate level class, you will learn many great techniques using both hand and power tools. Included will be learning to use Peter’s ingenious rotary handplanes which allow the rounded chair parts to be made without the use of a lathe. The chairs will be glued up, detailed and sanded as time permits. The finish and Shaker tape will be applied at home (each student will receive measured drawings and detailed steps). In addition to the great experience you will have making it, this rocker is sure to be a family favorite for generations, whether rocking a newborn or relaxing in front of the fireplace. TOPICS INCLUDE: Design considerations Steam bending techniques Creating and using clever jigs on the drill press Rounding square stock using rotary planes Sawing and fitting the “bridle” joints over the rockers Assembly processes Finishing techniques How to weave the Shaker taped seat and back Instructor:    Peter Hindle Dates:           May 21-24 Tuition:          $495, plus $145* materials *Materials include curly maple, but not Shaker tape or finish. The 65 yards of Shaker tape may be purchased from nearby Shaker Village during your stay. Class limit:       8       Check status:   May Register via fax or mail Joinery Essentials Fine Woodworking, most simply stated, is the ability to put wood together well. And this “putting together” of wood, the study of joinery, is the difference-maker when it comes to defining great craftsmanship. This popular 2-day class will cover the two most commonly used in fine joinery: the mortise and tenon, and the dovetail joint. Many variations of these primary joints, and their applications, will be discussed. Using both machine and traditional hand cutting methods, you will have ample opportunity to make practice samples. Some of the joints covered will be: through, half-blind, sliding and lap dovetails; standard, through, angled, pegged, and wedged mortise and tenons. By the end of the class, you will have a bundle of joinery samples, essential skills, and great memories to take home with you. TOPICS INCLUDE: Fundamental joinery terms Choosing the optimum joinery for the job Laying out and marking out, tools and techniques Effectively using a marking gauge Sharpening and tuning joinery tools Cutting and fitting precisely Selecting and using adhesives Instructor:    Tom McLaughlin Dates:           May 30-31 or Sept. 26-27 Tuition:          $260, plus $65 materials Class limit:        8       Check status:   May  Sept. Register via fax or mail 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 this week added to their woodworking understanding, enjoyment and skills. We offer this class twice each season due to its popularity, so sign up quickly. TOPICS INCLUDE: 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 Instructor:    Tom McLaughlin Dates:           June 9-13 or Aug. 4-8 Tuition:          $650, plus $195 materials (includes prepared solid cherry, poplar, finishing supplies) Class limit:        8       Check status:   June  Aug. Register via fax or mail Spindle Turning Basics You can read all the woodturning books you can find, but there is nothing like seeing how it’s done with your own eyes. In his articulate and passionate style, Jon will share the skillful techniques of a master turner. This 2-day course, designed for relative beginners, will focus on developing the core skills required for spindle turning (turning between centers). These techniques are essential to making furniture parts, and countless useful and decorative items. Class time will be organized around demonstrations, skills building exercises, and completion of projects such as a carvers mallet and more as time permits. TOPICS INCLUDE: The lathe: history, parts, adjustments, and safety Sharpening turning chisels efficiently Mounting the work piece on the lathe Proper use of the various chisels Practice exercises with gouge and skew chisels Design of turnings Duplication methods Regarding tools for each of these 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. Instructor:     Jon Siegel Dates:           June 20-21 Tuition:          $260, plus $65 materials Class limit:        8       Check status:   June Register via fax or mail Turning Bowls Few types of fine woodworking are so immediately satisfying as turning a bowl on a lathe. Quite often you can have a completed finished work of art, in just a few hours. Like a potter’s hands on a lump of clay, using turning chisels you will learn to release the beautiful bowl inside a rough hunk of wood. Returning from teaching Hollow Vessel Turning last year, the youthful 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 course, you will have multiple sample creations to take home with you as well as the knowledge of hollow turning from start to finish. TOPICS INCLUDE: Tool technique and construction Chucking methods Lathe safety Design considerations Wood selection Finishing options Regarding tools for each of these 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. Instructor:    Graham Oakes Dates:           June 27-28 or Oct. 3-4 Tuition:          $260, plus $75 materials Class limit:        8       Check status:   June  Oct. Register via fax or mail Basic Veneering After this 3-day encounter with veneering expert Terry Moore, a whole new world of fantastic woodworking potential will be opened to you. Some of the most incredible furniture made throughout history was made using veneers. Unknown to most, the finest figured lumber, burls and crotches, bypass the lumberyards and are sent directly to veneer mills. 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 three tabletops; an 18x18” book matched top with a border, a striking 18” round sunburst top, and a terrific 18” square chessboard. As an added bonus, these valuable tops are yours to take home at the end of the class. TOPICS INCLUDE: Purchasing, handling, and flattening veneer Essential veneering tools Cutting, matching, and taping techniques Designing and laying out classic patterns Choosing the best adhesive and substrates Using a vacuum press Correcting mistakes and unexpected problems Border and edge band techniques Instructors:    Terry Moore Dates:            July 10-12 Tuition:           $390, plus $95 materials Class limit:         8       Check status:    July Register via fax or mail Speed Carving Nothing adds interest to a piece of furniture quite like the art of carving. In this 3-day class, geared for experienced beginner-intermediate skill levels, you will learn the techniques to not only produce great carvings, but to do it fast! Like a knife through butter, you will surely be inspired watching Clive as he demonstrates the ease and speed he acquired as a master wood carver for over twenty years in Kingston, Jamaica. Then it will be your turn. The challenge, should you accept it, will be to complete the carving of four matching ball and claw legs, with carved knees, by the end of the three days. No problem Mon! Clive will guide you all the way. As a bonus, the four mahogany legs are yours to take home and make something special. TOPICS INCLUDE: Creating great patterns Bandsawing, spokeshaving, and shaping the cabriole leg Sharpening your carving chisels to a razor edge Choosing the best carving chisel for each situation Understanding wood grain and its effects Learning and practicing great carving technique while adding speed to your work photo forthcoming Instructors:    Clive Hamilton Dates:            July 17-19 Tuition:           $390, plus $125 materials Class limit:         8       Check status:    July Register via fax or mail Experience Woodworking 201 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 time-tested techniques to making the most useful of case pieces, a chest or drawers. Your dovetail skills will grow by leaps and bounds under the skilled guidance of Furniture Master Terry Moore. As an added treat, you will be learning these skills while making your own small-sized chest, a sure heirloom that will be a great compliment atop a full-sized chest of drawers. The best part is, the skills Terry will pass on to you in this class will equip you to make all kinds of chests of your own in the future! TOPICS INCLUDE: Design considerations Selecting and buying wood Effective use of marking and layout tools Dovetail joining a case Sliding dovetails Sharpening, using Handplanes and chisels Dovetailing drawers and precisely fitting to an opening Sharpening and using a cabinet scraper Finishing recommendations Corey - Chest Dimensions: 19"W x 10"D x 7"H photo forthcoming Instructor:    Terry Moore Dates:           July 21-25 Tuition:          $650, plus $195 materials Class limit:        8       Check status:   July Register via fax or mail Making a Windsor Stool Jon and I have been talking for a couple years about having a class that would be a great follow up to his popular Spindle Turning class, and we finally have it! Your turning skills, no matter how raw, will reach new heights while making a classic Windsor Stool with the instruction and guidance of master turner Jon Siegel. Special techniques such as using a steady rest while turning thin work, and using effective jigs will be only a small part of the great material Jon will cover. The 24” high stool will be inspiring and useful in the shop or home. Solid soft maple is the material of choice. Maple turns beautifully and takes a great traditional finish. TOPICS INCLUDE: Turning multiple parts alike Effective use of a steady rest while turning thinner spindles Faceplate turning, while making the seat Jigs to make accurate and easy use of the drill press Assembly technique Regarding tools for each of these 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. photo forthcoming Instructor:    Jon Siegel Dates:           August 21-23 Tuition:          $390, plus $95 materials Class limit:        8       Check status:   August Register via fax or mail Make a Real Queen Anne Table There is perhaps no better way to begin to learn fine craftsmanship than to reproduce classically styled furniture. The great golden age of furniture, the eighteenth century, is the best place to start. In this 5-day class, Tom will take you through the same processes and techniques he learned during his apprenticeship years with master craftsman and traditional furniture specialist, P.A. Moore. And you will have the ultimate bonus, taking home this classical, solid cherry Queen Anne table that will be at home in many settings. There will be plenty of enjoyable handwork throughout this course that will only add to your satisfaction and confidence upon its completion. (Note: it is recommended, but not required that you have taken the Experience Woodworking 101 (formerly called "Woodworking Foundations") and/or the Spindle Turning Basics classes prior to enrolling in this class). TOPICS INCLUDE: Design considerations Creating full-size drawings Making a cabriole leg pattern Mortise and tenon joinery Woodturning demonstration for the pad foot Sawing and shaping the cabriole leg Sharpening and using cabinet scrapers and hand planes Spokeshave, rasping, and scraping techniques Finishing approaches Table Dimensions: 46"W x 15"D x 28”H Instructor:    Tom McLaughlin Dates:           September 15-19 Tuition:          $650, plus $245 materials Class limit:       8       Check status:   September Register via fax or mail Decorative Details Over three millennia ago Egyptian craftsmen were decorating their work with inlays of small intricate patterns of contrasting woods and other exotic materials. In this full 3-day class, you will explore these alluring details and learn how to integrate them into your work in a personal and coherent way. There will be lots of opportunities for hands-on practice and application of these various techniques as you make sample boards that will become a valuable record of your newly acquired skills. In order to explain the historical context of these beautiful details — and to stimulate your own creativity — Garrett will also show photos of inspirational work. TOPICS INCLUDE: Complex bandings: making and applying them Incorporating stringing and fine lines How to use silver, bone, and other unusual materials Edge details Flush beads Proud cockbeads Inlaid edges Chamfers and bevels Making custom scratch stocks and chisels Design considerations Instructor:    Garrett Hack Dates:           October 9-11 Tuition:          $390, plus $65 materials Class limit:       12       Check status:   October Register via fax or mail Woodfinishing Overview For too long, wood finishing has needlessly remained a mystery to too many. In this one-day, concentrated class, Tom will break it all down into understandable components. You will end up with a thorough overview and knowledge base to more confidently and consistently achieve great finishes. The day will be chock full of explanations, demonstrations, question and answer sessions, and hands-on opportunities. As an added bonus, Tom will share his favorite finishing processes and techniques, which he has applied successfully on fine furniture over his years as a custom furniture maker. TOPICS INCLUDE: Surface preparation Understanding and applying wood stains and dyes Oil finishes, use and application Understanding and applying shellac and lacquer Approaches to achieve special effects: filler, glazes, tints and toners Techniques to rubbing out a finish Instructor:    Tom McLaughlin Dates:           October 18 Tuition:          $130, plus $75 materials Class limit:       10       Check status:   October Register via fax or mail

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