We’re thrilled to announce a brand new class on our calendar this year: The Shaker Table Series!
This eight session workshop equips students to move in a woodshop, both safely and strategically. The combination of machinery used in this class will expand students abilities to problem solve and make confident independent decisions outside of the classroom. This course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand tool and machine safety, milling, mortise and tenon joinery, and finishing. Students will build their own Shaker-style hall or coffee table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project, and gain familiarity with the woodshop environment in the process.
All materials are provided, including hardwood lumber, sandpaper, poly or oil finish, rags, gloves and wood glue.
In this class you will use such tools as the joiner, planer, chop saw, table saw (including using the dado blade), mortiser, biscuit joiner, chisel, hand planes, sander, ruler, square, scribe, finish scraper and more.
Using the tools listed you will work on such skills as: Working properties of wood, the fundamentals of milling, performing accurate marking and measuring, machine safety, gluing wood, joinery, design and proportioning, surface preparation and sanding and of course, finishing.
The instructor for this class is Ben Shafer Rickles. Ben graduated from Vermont Woodworking School, and has been teaching and building furniture since. His designs unionize complex joinery and functionality and purpose. In the woodshop and beyond he often produces a contagious smile, and is referred to by his friends as an energizer bunny. He takes any opportunity to explore anything thats new.
PLEASE NOTE
Class minimum is 3 students; if enrollment requirements are not met, we will discuss possible date changes or refund your registration, whichever you prefer. We don’t want to reschedule, though, so get your friends to sign up, too!
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