Summer Workshops for 2012
Tools and Techniques

June 11–29
$935

This class is full.
We'll accept names for a waiting list.

Our annual summer offering covers in three weeks much of the material the our nine-month students cover in six weeks. To accomodate vacation schedules, we are offering the class in two segments. Registration in Tools and Techniques gives access to the Plane Making and Techniques class and is modestly less expensive than the combination cost of the two. Attendees who account themselves as intermediate learners often remark upon how much they've gained in this intense class.

Tools and Techniques Schedule

Week 1
Monday: Sharpening, block plane tune-up

Tuesday: Hand plane construction
Mouth opening, slot for capscrew

Wednesday: Cross pin, sole slot, glue ups. Begin second plane.

Thursday: Truing the block, sole glue up, filing the opening, scraping

Friday: Edge joining

Week 2
Monday: Joining and surfacing

Tuesday: Mortise and tenon

Wednesday: Through tenon. Issue doweling exercise stock. Rough sawing

Thursday: Dovetails

Friday: Half-blind dovetails

Week 3
Monday: Doweling

Tuesday: Detailing- rabbet, shelves, partitions

Wednesday: Frame and panel

Thursday: Frame and panel–the glue up

Friday: Review and catch-up; sawing for grain pattern; shellac finishing

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