Out and about:
On October 20 from 10:00am to 2:00pm I will be at Hickory & Oak Sawmilling and Lumber Company. Steve will give tours of the sawmill. I will demonstrate sharpening (chisels, plane irons, gouges, hand saw) and hand tool joinery. Lumber will be on sale and there will be special sales on project packs of lumber, It's rumored that there may be cider and donuts as well. This is a great opportunity to get your hand tool questions answered, see a working sawmill and pick-up some lumber. Map Contact Steve Van Osdol at 269-436-0039.
At Woodcraft in Grand Rapids:
On October 8 I'll be teaching SketchUp. How strange is it that the hand tool only guy teaches computer aided design? Seems about right to me.
October 18 will be the first session of "Becoming a Hand Tool Woodworker: Build a Blanket Chest." This class will run all day nearly every Saturday for five sessions after the introductory Thursday night session. You are invited to attend the Thursday night session for free. If you like what you see you can sign up right there (assuming seats are still available). The project is a Pennsylvania Blanket Chest/Shaker Blanket Chest/Tool Chest. It contains 60 dovetails so by the end you will be a dovetailing wizard. This is the same class as is currently happening in my shop except the students will have less latitude in design.
The 25th of October I will be Sharpening for the Woodworker. This is a fundamentals class. I teach the principles of sharpening and then the details of chisels, plane irons, gouges, hand saws and most anything else students happen to bring in.
November 26 will be SketchUp II. This is not a continuation of the first SketchUp class but begins at the mid-point of the previous and continues into topics like scaling, reproduction from photographs, photo-realistic output. You must be quite comfortable with SketchUp to take this class.
In my shop:
Every Sunday in November we will build a Shaker side table. The table includes a drawer. This class teaches hand tool lumber prep, dovetails, mortise and tenon joinery and drawer fitting. This class is full.
In December we will build an Arts & Crafts (Mission Style) side table with a drawer and shelf. This class teaches hand tool lumber prep, dovetails, mortise and tenon joinery and drawer fitting. The table is built from quarter sawn white oak and is, therefore, physically more demanding.
In January we will build an Arts & Crafts (Mission Style) Sette (Love Seat). This class teaches hand tool lumber prep and mortise and tenon joinery. The settee is built from quarter sawn white oak and includes approximately 20 mortise and tenon joints. Hand cut mortise and tenon joinery will never be a problem again after completing this class.
Questions?
Ask them here or contact me.
I have a question about the classes "In your shop". Are there any prerequisites? If I wanted to take the Sette class, would I need to have taken (or should I have taken) the site table class? Or will each class be stand alone?
ReplyDeleteAll of my classes assume that you are a highly motivated, enthusiastic, hand tool beginner. The classes in my shop also assume that you do not have a complete set of tools. The Woodcraft classes require that you obtain a complete set of tools, although I do make sure that at least one of each tool is available for use in the workshop.
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