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Felder Machinery : Building an End Table with Kelly Mehler
March 11-12
Cost $420- includes all materials
Skill Level - All
If you are the owner of a Felder/Hammer machine or you are interested in learning more about European woodworking machinery, this hands-on class is for you. You will make a simple end table with all of the pieces cut from one board! The table construction incorporates the use of several different Felder machines so that you can discover the accuracy, efficiency, and safety features of these tools.
The goal of the class is for you to observe and then experiment with the capabilities of the different machines. As such, the table is the vehicle for your learning and there is no pressure to complete the project. The pace is entirely up to you and you will be supported in your learning by careful demonstration and teaching by Kelly, a long-time user of Felder machinery, followed by your hands-on practice of each technique. Important maintenance and tune-up information will be shared through demonstration and question/answer sessions.
Here are some of the things you can expect to learn:
- Rough milling and final milling on the jointer/planer and table saw.
- Re-sawing on the band saw.
- Mortising on the combination machine mortiser and stand-alone mortiser.
- Tenon making on the shaper and by dado cutting on the table saw.
- Edge treatments on the shaper.
- Tapering on the jointer.
- Gluing, clamping, fitting joints, and assembly techniques.
- Safety considerations for each tool.
You will enjoy an action-packed two days with good learning, excellent information, and a convivial atmosphere!
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Arts & Crafts Table with Stewart Crick
March 21- 26
Cost $875 - materials are listed in the participant information link below
Skill Level - intermediate to advanced
In this 6 day intermediate level course, students will build an Arts and Crafts inspired bedside table from solid wood. The table, designed by award-winning contemporary Arts and Crafts furniture designer Stu Crick, includes style elements from some of the movement's leading designers; including Greene & Greene; Frank Lloyd Wright, and Gustav Stickley. Students will learn how to build and use jigs and processes to reproduce classical Arts and Crafts style elements. From bread-board table tops to legs with the unique ray-fleck pattern of quarter-sawn white oak on all four sides; to the spindles of Frank Lloyd Wright and the alluring ebony accents of Greene and Greene, this course will give you the confidence to create your own unique Arts and Crafts furniture designs, and to build them to last for years and years.
Students will learn:
- How to build solidly constructed Arts and Crafts furniture
- How to design Arts & Crafts furniture that features style elements of the movement
- How to build and use jigs and fixtures for Arts and Crafts furniture
- How to construct bread-board table tops in the Arts and Crafts style
- How to hand fit joints using traditional tools and techniques
About the instructor:
Stu has been working with wood most of his life and focusing on Arts and Crafts inspired furniture for the past 10 years. His construction techniques use a blend of modern power tools and traditional hand tools to achieve an efficient balance between art and craftsmanship. Stu’s furniture has been featured in several magazines including American Bungalow, Cottages and Bungalows, Arts & Crafts Homes, Style1900, American Woodworker, Woodcraft, and Fine Woodworking Magazine. Stuart has appeared on ABC TV "Good Morning America" as a furniture consultant to Consumer reporter Elisabeth Leamy. His unique designs have placed in several juried shows including the Philadelphia Invitational Furniture Show, and Fine Furnishing’s Providence Show. Recently he was awarded the Best in Show Award for a Traditional Body of Work at the 2008 Providence Fine Furniture Show. His furniture resides in the permanent collection of the historic Grove Park Inn, and his designs were recently featured in Bruce Johnson’s book Arts & Crafts Furniture of the Grove Park Inn.
Stu serves as president of the Washington Woodworkers Guild, a local 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing and sharing woodworking knowledge. Visit Stu on the Web at www.stuswoodworks.com
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Sketch-Up 3 day Weekend with Bob Lang New!
April 1-3
Cost $450
Google SketchUp is a powerful 3D computer-modeling tool that enables woodworkers to efficiently work out design and construction details with greater accuracy and in less time than using other methods. The software is free, but learning how to use it can be a struggle. Most tutorials and books on SketchUp are aimed toward using the program for architecture. This class will show you the tools and techniques you need to design furniture and other woodworking projects. You will learn to make quick studies to explore design variations and to make models that show you every detail of every part. You'll head to the shop to build your next project with the confidence that comes from having worked out design issues (and catching mistakes) before you cut any wood.
While working on his book, Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp, Bob uncovered common problems and stumbling blocks that woodworkers face when learning SketchUp. Solutions to these issues are the foundation of this class. You will learn to set up the modeling environment and draw accurately and efficiently. Then you will move to more advanced techniques of copying and modifying instead of drawing, using a virtual board stretcher, and how to extract information from a completed model.
About the Instructor:
Robert W. Lang has been a professional woodworker since the early 1970s. Bob’s early career included repairing wooden boats on Lake Erie and an apprenticeship in a large commercial cabinet shop in Cleveland. He progressed though designing, building and selling custom furniture at art shows around the country to a stint in design school and project management for large architectural millwork firms.
In the late 1990s he began free-lance writing for Fine Woodworking and Woodshop News. In addition to Woodworker’s Guide to Sketch-Up, Bob has authored five books of measured drawings of furniture and interiors of the Arts and Crafts period as well as The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker and Drafting and Design for Woodworkers.
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Windsor Fan Back Side Chair class with Peter Galbert New! - FULL
April 4-9
Cost $895
Materials Fee $165
Skill Level - Intermediate
Chairs are some of the most challenging and useful furniture pieces to design and build. In this seminar, you’ll work with green wood and hand tools combined to create one of the most notably iconic forms of American furniture, the Windsor Chair.
This class covers all the action from tree to chair. You will split parts from a log, shave the parts, and then bend them and join them into the hand carved seat. We will cover many topics such as sharpening, wood technology, and design that will enhance your ability to make chairs in your own shop.
We’ll demystify the angles and curves that go into making a successful chair while demonstrating how hand tools are the most effective way to build an heirloom chair. The legs for the chair will be provided for you OR you may turn your own chair legs using instructor-provided patterns before attending the class. Be ready to work hard and enjoy a whole new way of woodworking.
About the instructor:
Peter Galbert is a full time chair maker living in Bethel, New York. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Peter has taught chairmaking at craft schools across the country and in his own timberframe workshop. He is also the creator of the Galbert Caliper direct reading caliper for spindle turning. To learn more about Pete, chairmaking, and the life of a chairmaker, visit Peter's blog at Chairnotes.blogspot.com or his website at petergalbertchairmaker.com.
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Windsor Fan Back Side Chair class with Peter Galbert New! FULL
April 11-16
Cost $895
Materials Fee $165
Skill Level - Intermediate
Chairs are some of the most challenging and useful furniture pieces to design and build. In this seminar, you’ll work with green wood and hand tools combined to create one of the most notably iconic forms of American furniture, the Windsor Chair.
This class covers all the action from tree to chair. You will split parts from a log, shave the parts, and then bend them and join them into the hand carved seat. We will cover many topics such as sharpening, wood technology, and design that will enhance your ability to make chairs in your own shop.
We’ll demystify the angles and curves that go into making a successful chair while demonstrating how hand tools are the most effective way to build an heirloom chair. The legs for the chair will be provided for you OR you may turn your own chair legs using instructor-provided patterns before attending the class. Be ready to work hard and enjoy a whole new way of woodworking.
About the instructor:
Peter Galbert is a full time chair maker living in Bethel, New York. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Peter has taught chairmaking at craft schools across the country and in his own timberframe workshop. He is also the creator of the Galbert Caliper direct reading caliper for spindle turning. To learn more about Pete, chairmaking, and the life of a chairmaker, visit Peter's blog at Chairnotes.blogspot.com or his website at petergalbertchairmaker.com.
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Tables Without Reservations with Garrett Hack New! - FULL
April 25-29
Cost $825
Materials - see participant information for details
Skill Level - Intermediate - Advanced
Small tables are a great design project. They’re fun and quick to build and always useful. This is one of my favorites, an ideal project to explore some new ideas—inlays, a leg shape, tabletop edge profile, top overhang, beads and apron details. We’ll build from start to finish, from drawings to the shellac, and end with an extremely useful critique of what we've made. The Fun-O-Meter will be pegged out this week!
The tables I have in mind have uncomplicated joinery. With a slight twist, the legs are splayed for aesthetic and stability reasons. Beyond that, you design the proportions and different aspects, with help and plenty of demos showing you the possibilities. Since the joinery is simple, you’ll have plenty of time to focus on the other elements and all-important details. We will talk about fitting a drawer into your table, but we will not build the drawers.
Naturally, hand tools will figure prominently into the way we approach building our tables. You will learn about the efficiency, accuracy, and the high quality of work created by choosing and using the right hand tool. We'll also discuss ways of thinking about our work, from using patterns to story sticks, producing useful drawings quickly, construction strategies, when to use machines, and even how your choice of materials can dramatically affect the building process and outcome. You will learn many approaches this week. No reservations!
About the instructor:
Garrett Hack is a furniture maker, author, and woodworking teacher from Thetford Center, VT, where he resides on a small homestead farm. Garrett originally trained at Boston University’s program in artistry and holds a degree in architecture from Princeton University. Internationally known, his work and Federal-inspired brick shop have been featured in numerous magazines and books, including Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and Preservation magazine. He is a contributing editor at Fine Woodworking and has written two books, The Handplane Book and Classic Hand Tools. Garrett spends about a quarter of his time teaching throughout the U.S., England, and Canada, and is former chairman of the Furniture Masters of New Hampshire. We are glad to have Garrett joining us for a second year at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking.
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Decorative Details Weekend with Garrett Hack New! FULL
April 30 - May 1
Cost $345
Materials - see participant information for details
Skill Level - Intermediate
Over three millennia ago Egyptian craftsmen were decorating their work with inlays of small intricate patterns using ebony, ivory, and other exotic materials. You will learn the same technique, after first making some of the necessary tools — micro chisels and scratch stocks. This class will cover:
- delicate string or line inlays,
- larger surface inlays such as panels,
- making and inlaying patterned bandings,
- using non-wood materials such as silver and shell,
- complementary decorative edges,
- side beads and proud cockbeads used to highlight the edge of a table apron or drawer.
Sample boards or a small box will be the vehicles to practice designing and using these decorative techniques.
About the Instructor:
Garrett Hack is a furniture maker, author, and woodworking teacher from Thetford Center, VT, where he resides on a small homestead farm. Garrett originally trained at Boston University’s program in artistry and holds a degree in architecture from Princeton University. Internationally known, his work and Federal-inspired brick shop have been featured in numerous magazines and books, including Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and Preservation magazine. He is a contributing editor at Fine Woodworking and has written two books, The Handplane Book and Classic Hand Tools. Garrett spends about a quarter of his time teaching throughout the U.S., England, and Canada, and is former chairman of the Furniture Masters of New Hampshire. We are glad to have Garrett joining us for a second year at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking.
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Build an 18th Century Workbench with Christopher Schwarz New! FULL
May 16-21
Cost $975
Does not include materials and machining - see participant information for details
Skill Level - Intermediate
Build a no-compromise, massive and effective workbench with Christopher Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine and author of "Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use."
This bench is built using massive timbers – just like ancient benches – from the log home industry. The bench is constructed with the traditional exposed sliding dovetail and tenon joint, but made in a clever way, with portable power tools. The workholding on the bench will be customized for your work, whether you build cabinets, chairs or small boxes.
You will work individually with the instructor in the weeks before the class begins to select the proper bench height, vises, and special features for your bench. Then we'll build these French-style benches during the six-day class and outfit each one with the vises and accessories that are best for you.
The class will use both machinery and hand tools for speed and accuracy. This is not a class for purists in either camp. It's for people who want to build a bench in six days that will last for several lifetimes. That said, the construction process will be peppered with lectures on workbench history, hand-tool use, and effective workholding.
Christopher has built many workbenches before and during his 14 years at Popular Woodworking Magazine. (He built his first bench when he was about 11). This design is the culmination of many years of research, practical experience in the shop and feedback from thousands of woodworkers who have read his books on benches.
Please note that this class is physically demanding. Additionally, we are not able to ship the completed bench.
About the instructor:
Born in St. Louis, Mo., and raised in Northwest Arkansas, Chris began woodworking as a boy in his dad’s home shop. His father prohibited him from using the powered machinery, so he built his projects – including his first workbench – with a small set of hand tools. Chris became further enmeshed in the world of hand work when his family bought an 84-acre farm in Hackett, Ark., and began building two houses without the benefit of electricity.
After writing his first book, Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use (Popular Woodworking Books), Chris and a partner established Lost Art Press LLC, a side business that publishes historical woodworking texts; their first project was to revive Joseph Moxon’s The Art of Joinery in 2008. Christopher is also the author of Handplane Essentials and the forthcoming book The Joiner and Cabinet Maker.
Chris remains an avid woodworker, building projects for the magazines, his family and occasionally for sale. When he’s not woodworking, he’s cooking or working on his 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. He lives in Fort Mitchell, Ky., with his wife, Lucy, who is also a journalist, and his two children, Maddy and Katy.
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Hand-Cutting Dovetails - Weekend with Kelly Mehler
May 28-29
Cost $345 - includes materials
Skill Level - Open to all
Find out that this preeminent joint is well within your grasp! This beautiful, useful, and long lasting joint will be our focus for this two-day hands-on class. You will learn methods that may be difficult to read about, but which become very doable with hands-on instruction.
Here's what we'll do:
- Learn how to sharpen chisels.
- Lay out through dovetails and half blind dovetails.
- Learn methods for hand sawing and chiseling dovetails.
- Cut and fit through dovetails, half blind and mitered dovetails.
- View demonstrations and receive 1-on-1 instruction.
By the end of the weekend, your knowledge of tool sharpening will enhance your ability to create clean and beautiful dovetails and other joints needed for your projects. You will have a good foundation for successfully adding several types of hand-cut dovetails to your woodworking repertoire.
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European Relief Carving with Nora Hall
June 3 - June 5 - FULL
Cost $475- includes all materials
Skill Level - All levels
Old-style ornaments such as leaves, scrolls, shells, flowers, grapes, etc. will be utilized as a means of explaining classic European carving styles. The main area covered will be relief carving. Carving in-the-round, chip carving, and letter carving will also be included.
Initially, each student will become familiar with the seven basic tools by carving a simple design. Nora will work individually to perhaps suggest a second project and a third and so on. If time permits, high relief carving will be introduced.
Throughout the course, much one-on-one guidance will be given to ensure that correct technique is followed. Demonstrations and discussions will occur frequently, perhaps to stress a particular concept or to address students' questions.
This workshop is open to experienced and to novice carvers, with the outcome being that, at the end, each participant will have learned to achieve both quality and higher levels of productivity and proficiency through the techniques learned.
Students are welcome to bring their own tools; or, tools can be supplied by the instructor.
We invite you to join us for this very special opportunity to work with Nora.
About the instructor:
It was Nora Hall’s life dream to become a wood sculptress when she was growing up in Amsterdam, Holland during the difficult years of World War II. Nora’s father, master woodcarver Johannes Leereveld, encouraged his daughter to attend the art academy in Amsterdam, which she did for one year. This brief study laid the foundation for an apprenticeship with her dad that continued for many years.
In the 1950’s, Nora left her native country and raised her family in the United States. In the 1970’s Nora began teaching classical-style carving methods to U.S. students of all ages.
Over the years, Nora has had the pleasure of having her work commissioned by the BMH Synagogue in Denver, US West, Hugh Hefner, Gibson Guitar, and numerous private collectors. She has also had her work and life featured in such magazines as Fine Woodworking, Woodshop News, Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, and Woodworker’s Journal.
Nora is still teaching and carving today, moved by her love of the craft she wants to share it with as many people as possible. We are thrilled to have her teach at the school! Visit her website at www.norahall.com
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Turning for Furniture Making with Nick Cook
June 6-10 - FULL
Cost $795
Materials $85
Skill Level - Open to all
This class is designed for woodworkers interested in adding turned parts to their furniture projects. Students can expect to learn, practice and execute the techniques for making most of the turned parts that may be found in a piece of furniture.
The projects you create will include matched table legs, bun feet, finials, drawer pulls, a table lamp, a small 3-legged stool and a larger 4- legged stool.
We will start with an introduction to the lathe, safety, turning tools and sharpening techniques. Students will learn to sharpen their turning tools, and will practice proper cutting techniques.
You will practice a variety of cuts and learn to make the basic shapes required for spindle turning. Some faceplate work will also be included. We will also discuss stock preparation, layout techniques and how to create duplicate parts.
Nick will discuss and demonstrate:
- Both spindle and faceplate turning techniques.
- A variety of chucking methods.
- Sanding and finishing possibilities (supplied for you at the school.)
You will have your own lathe for the week. Don't miss this special class with an amazing amount of skill practice and lots of enjoyment!
About the instructor:
Nick Cook is a production turner producing a wide variety of gift items, one of a kind bowls & vessels and work for furniture makers and millwork contractors. He spends much of his time teaching individuals and groups throughout the country. He has done workshops for woodturning groups in Australia, New Zealand and England. He has also participated in the national woodturning symposiums in England, New Zealand and the US. He is a founding member of the American Association of Woodturners and has served as vice president and conference coordinator. Nick was named the 12 th honorary lifetime member of the AAW. He has written numerous articles for various woodturning publications including Woodworkers Journal and American Woodworker. He is a contributing editor for American Woodturner. Visit his website at www.nickcookwoodturner.com
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Arts & Crafts Writing Desk with Nancy Hiller New!
June 20-25
Cost $895
Skill Level - Intermediate to Advanced
Nancy Hiller has designed a six-day course just for us. We’ll make a versatile desk based on original Harris Lebus drawings she obtained from the National Archives in England while researching Harris Lebus for an article published in American Bungalow magazine (Issue 66, Summer 2010; see www.nrhillerdesign.com/ ).
For several years around the turn of the 20th century, an English manufacturing firm, Harris Lebus, produced classically styled English Arts and Crafts furniture. Their furniture is highly collectable in the UK today, though relatively unknown in the United States.
These works by Harris Lebus deserve our attention for two main reasons. Besides simply being drop dead gorgeous, they are striking examples of British Arts and Crafts design, which is recognizably distinct from American examples of Arts and Crafts furniture by Stickley, Hubbard, Greene and Greene, and other makers. They also represent an important example of how a manufacturing company put into practice the Arts and Crafts conviction that objects of beauty and utility should be available not just to the wealthy, but also to people of modest means.
The writing desk you make in this course will incorporate traditional furniture making techniques superior to many of those employed by Lebus (embarrassing but true!). You will turn the distinctive feet used in many Lebus designs; use sliding (or “French”) dovetails to attach support brackets to a table base; attach a solid wood top using traditional wooden buttons; plus make and fit a drawer using traditional runners and kickers. For the upper portion, you will build a case in solid wood featuring a center section with distinctive beveled edges; make the special Lebus crown molding, with its fabulously exaggerated bevel; and craft a pair of simple slab doors hung on traditional brass butt hinges.
Nancy will demonstrate a simple, authentic looking Arts & Crafts finish technique for quarter-sawn oak. And as a bonus, she will present a slideshow with an insider’s view of the trip behind her London research, complete with a discussion of design features that differentiate English from American Arts and Crafts furniture. This class is packed with information and opportunities for learning – don’t miss it!
About the instructor:
Nancy (who has been rather humorously described by English designer/author Johnny Grey as “a rare beast of a cabinet maker, scholar and writer”) trained as a furniture maker while living in England. After earning a City and Guilds of London certificate she worked for furniture and cabinet shops in the UK before returning to the United States. Since 1995 she has operated NR Hiller Design, Inc., which specializes in period-authentic furniture and built-ins for homes and offices from the late-19th through the mid-20th centuries.
Nancy’s work has been published in Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Old-House Interiors, American Bungalow, Old House Journal, Cottages and Bungalows, in addition to Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases and Built-In Furniture, both published by the Taunton Press. She is the author of The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History (Indiana University Press, 2009), has spoken at the Traditional Building Show in Boston and Baltimore, and taught cabinet making for us from 2006 to 2009. We are delighted to have her back teaching this exciting course. Visit Nancy on the web: www.nrhillerdesign.com.
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Hand-Cutting Dovetails with Kelly Mehler
July 2
Cost $225 - includes all materials
Skill Level - Open to all
Find out that this preeminent joint is well within your grasp! This most beautiful, useful, and long lasting joint will be our focus for this daylong hands-on class. You will learn methods that may be difficult to read about but which become very doable with hands-on instruction.
Here's what we'll do:
- Learn how to sharpen chisels.
- Layout through dovetails.
- Learn methods for hand sawing and chiseling dovetails.
- Cut and fit through dovetails.
- Demonstrations and 1-on-1 instruction.
By the end of the day, you will have a good foundation for successfully adding hand-cut dovetails to your woodworking repertoire.
This is a good preparatory class for the Blanket Chest class.
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Hand-Cut Dovetailed Blanket Chest with
Kelly Mehler
July 4-9
Cost $895
Skill Level - All levels
It is a Blanket Chest! It is a Tool Chest! It is what you want it to be as this project represents one of the most enduring pieces of heirloom furniture. These chests are often passed down in families for many generations. The best historical examples are made with hand cut dovetails since this is, without a doubt, the best joint for preserving the integrity of the chest over time. Your own hand cut dovetailed chest will become an instant heirloom of which you are be the proud creator!
In this 6 day class you will build a beautiful Blanket Chest of a dimension that suits your needs. The chest is made of solid wood panels for the case, top, and base. If time allows, an interior structure and small interior drawer can be added.
The main emphasis of the week will be case construction using hand cut through-dovetails. You don't need prior dovetail experience for taking this class, but my Dovetail Class will give you a head start and can-do confidence. You will learn the techniques needed to build this chest successfully through one-on-one instruction and demonstrations during the week. At the same time, you will acquire skills that are broadly applicable to other pieces that you may wish to make in the future.
You can expect to learn:
- Choosing, matching and milling rough lumber.
- Safe and correct machinery practices.
- How to work with and glue up matched solid panels.
- Dovetailing and more dovetailing!
- How to hinge and attach a top.
- How to make and install a solid wood bottom and base.
- Finishing touches that make a difference.
Enjoy the small class size and lots of personal attention while making a beautiful project of enduring quality.
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Build a Classic Side Table with Kelly Mehler
July 18-22 - FULL
Cost $895 - Includes all materials
Skill Level - Open to all
In this foundational class you will build a small cherry or walnut side table. The side table has proven to be a popular project for both new and experienced woodworking enthusiasts. The side table class focuses on foundational skills including basic joinery, drawers, gluing, machine and hand tools use - all valuable skills used in nearly all woodworking projects. The piece that you create is adaptable to a variety of uses and can fit into many kinds of home or office decors.
The highlights of this class are:
- Tuning, sharpening and using hand tools
- Matching wood for a pleasing unified appearance
- Efficient machine tool milling
- Safe use of power and hand tools
- Mortise and tenon joinery
- Hand cutting dovetails
- Making and fitting a dovetailed drawer
- Gluing and assembly
Handouts and daily demos will give you step-by-step instruction and tips for successfully completing your side table.
As in all our small classes, you will work at your own pace and will receive lots of individual attention.
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Build a Drop Leaf Table with Kelly Mehler
August 1-6
Cost $895 - FULL
Materials - see participant information for details
Skill Level - Intermediate
The drop leaf table is popular because it occupies a rather small space when not in use, but seats a number of people when friends and family gather. The expanse of flat surfaces makes this a good project for showing off the beauty of your chosen wood.
In this 6 day hands-on class you will build a splayed leg drop leaf table of your own dimensions. You will learn such techniques as:
- safe and correct machining practices
- efficient and accurate mortise and tenon joinery
- splayed leg and apron construction
- how to make and fit a classic rule joint
- installing and fitting drop leaf hinges
- adding drop leaf supports
- building and fitting an optional dovetailed drawer
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October 3-7 FULL
Cost $865
Includes all materials
Skill Level - open to all
In this 5-day class you will learn a large variety of finishing processes as practiced in the non-industrial furniture shop. By the end of the course you will know how to fill grain, apply dyes & pigments, and put on hand-rubbed varnish, shellac, and oil finishes. Work on each of these techniques is done on your own sample panels (provided for you), and you may bring special pieces of your own wood to experiment on if you wish.
Through lecture and demonstrations, Teri explains everything from wood preparation to final rubbing out processes. This includes selection of proper abrasives, sanders, and fillers; layering of colorants; bleaching, glazing, and brushing; French polishing; and techniques for rubbing the final finish to perfection. You will leave with a better understanding of the range of choices for finishing your furniture projects from now on.
The week is loaded with hands-on practice, lots of discoveries, and loads of fun!
About the instructor:
Teri Masaschi started as an apprentice with a Fine Arts dealer in New Hampshire at the age of 14. Since that time she has spent a lifetime restoring, conserving, building/rebuilding and finishing antiques. Teri also finishes for woodworkers who use her expertise to finish their work. Other than a period of 7 years working at Woodworker's Supply as manager and specialist for the finishing products, Teri's career has been a straight line of creating fine finishes, writing about finishing and passing on some of her 41 years of knowledge through teaching.
Teri is the author of Foolproof Wood Finishing, published by Sterling Press. Visit Teri on the Web at www.terimasaschi.com.
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Felder Machinery : Building an End Table with Kelly Mehler
October 28-29
Cost $420
Includes all materials
Skill Level - All
If you are the owner of a Felder/Hammer machine or you are interested in learning more about European woodworking machinery, this hands-on class is for you. You will make a simple end table with all of the pieces cut from one board! The table construction incorporates the use of several different Felder machines so that you can discover the accuracy, efficiency, and safety features of these tools.
The goal of the class is for you to observe and then experiment with the capabilities of the different machines. As such, the table is the vehicle for your learning and there is no pressure to complete the project. The pace is entirely up to you and you will be supported in your learning by careful demonstration and teaching by Kelly, a long-time user of Felder machinery, followed by your hands-on practice of each technique. Important maintenance and tune-up information will be shared through demonstration and question/answer sessions.
Here are some of the things you can expect to learn:
- Rough milling and final milling on the jointer/planer and table saw.
- Re-sawing on the band saw.
- Mortising on the combination machine mortiser and stand-alone mortiser.
- Tenon making on the shaper and by dado cutting on the table saw.
- Edge treatments on the shaper.
- Tapering on the jointer.
- Gluing, clamping, fitting joints, and assembly techniques.
- Safety considerations for each tool.
You will enjoy an action-packed two days with good learning, excellent information, and a convivial atmosphere!
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Contact Kelly Mehler P.O. Box 786, Berea, KY 40403 phone (859) 986-5540 fax (859) 986-1233
email: kelly@kellymehler.com
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