| woodworking
| beginner / intermediate traditional woodworking
Registration Opens January 12
Instructor Ben Masterson
Summer Semester: Saturday, April 5 through Saturday, July 27
Fall Semester: Saturday, August 3 through Saturday, November 23
Saturdays 9 am - 4 pm (with one-hour lunch break at noon)
Foothills Arts Center 321 E. Main St. Elkin, NC 28621
Each class limited to 6 students
Tuition: $990
| synopsis
In this program students will learn the centuries-old techniques of traditional joinery as they build their own hand-crafted projects from local woods such as walnut, maple, oak, pine, and poplar. In this program we will work through a broad scope of skills from hand hewing and riving green wood to cutting intricate dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery.
Students will become proficient at maintaining and working with traditional tools such as iron and wooden hand planes, rip, crosscut, frame and dovetail saws, chisels and gouges, froes, drawknives, hewing axes, augers, brace and bits, and turning tools. We will be working mostly at traditional joinery benches, but will also have the opportunity to use shaving horses and spring pole lathes. Students will also experience some timber work in the field.
| projects include
Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids
Tapered, octagonal-leg German stools with sliding dovetail battens
Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails
Hand-hewn shaving bench and sawhorses
Turned/stake leg furniture from white oak