Woodworking Classes 2023

April

Basic Bowl Turning — Learn faceplate turning and and come away with a few bowls. April 15 to 16 (Sat & Sun) 8:30am-4:30pm. Course fee: $475 (includes all instruction time & materials), $75 non-refundable deposit required.

Woodturning Tools & Techniques — Two-and-a-half days of spindle and two-and-a-half days of bowl turning. April 24 to 28, (Mon-Fri) 8:30am-4:30pm. Course fee: $950 (includes all instruction time & materials), $75 non-refundable deposit required.

September

Build an Arts & Crafts Style Step Stool — Learn to hand-cut dovetails, mortise and tenon joints and use planes. September 16 to 17 (Sat-Sun) 8:30am-4:30pm. Course fee: $495 (includes all instruction time & materials), $75 non-refundable deposit required.

This new course is aimed at those aspiring to use hand tools effectively. Over a weekend you will attach the legs to an arts and crafts style step stool with hand-cut dovetail and add a stretcher that is through mortised into the legs. The protruding through tenon will be cross mortised for a “tusk” tenon which is indicative of the arts and crafts style and is more stylistic than functional. Please join Ernie Conover for this intensive weekend class where you will learn to:

• Use a hand plane to smooth wood.
• Layout and hand-cut through dovetails.
• Layout and hand-cut mortise and tenon joints.
• Sharpen and use your chisels and handplane properly.
• Apply an arts and crafts style finish:
• Fume the wood with ammonia.
• Apply a padded shellac finish.

Handtool Joinery — Case for hand tools in a machine world. September 25 to 30 (Mon-Sat, 6 days) 8:30am-4:30pm. Course fee: $995 (includes all instruction time & materials), $75 non-refundable deposit required.