It’s about building stuff. It’s not about dovetails or mortise and tenon joints. It’s about building things with your hands. It’s about honing skills and learning old ways of doing things. It’s about getting sweaty and making functional pieces of art.
Come learn with me about woodworking in a shop where you can listen to soft music and talk with your family or friends while dimensioning lumber. Come and experience the joy of using tools that don’t require hearing protection and don’t have safety warning stickers attached.
Together we will each build a side table in the style of the Shakers. The class will teach you to turn rough sawn lumber into furniture without plugging anything into the wall. Learn to work wood the way your grandfather did, with handsaws, planes and chisels.
Other courses of this type require that you pack up your tools, drive for hours, live in a hotel for a week and eat every meal in restaurants. Learn to build furniture with me, sleep in your own bed and have dinner with your family.
Students for this class should:
- be excited about building furniture
- either own or be prepared to own the kit of tools (I suggest that you not purchase new tools prior to the first session)
- not be afraid to sweat and get out a little of breath now and then
- be ready to have fun and learn
- Notebook
- Pen
- Combo square
- Bench Chisels
- Sharpening system
- A Bench plane
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