Fundamentals of Furniture-Making with Bob Van Dyke
This popular six-day intensive hands-on class is an opportunity to concentrate on the basics of woodworking and furniture making. This is not an appropriate class for absolute beginners. Some experience is suggested.
Description
This popular six-day intensive hands-on class is an opportunity to concentrate on the basics of woodworking and furniture making. Starting with rough sawn lumber, each student will make a Shaker style cherry hall table, which is a perfect vehicle to practice the machine and hand-tool techniques that we teach in the class.
Subjects covered include basic shop safety, machine use (with particular emphasis on the tablesaw, jointer and planer), using handplanes, card scrapers and chisels effectively to surface and hand-fit the mortice and tenon joints, handtool sharpening, making tapered legs and grain matching and gluing up a top. The complete process of milling a board "four square" is a focus of this class.
This is not an appropriate class for absolute beginners. Some experience is suggested. This class provides a strong foundation for more advanced furniture projects.
Tuition: $1175.00 plus materials ($250.00 plus tax)