Traditional Woodworking | Full Session
Instructor Ben Masterson
Update | The Winter Session will begin in March to join the program waitlist email info@foothillsarts.org
Full Session | March 3 through June 23 Monday evenings 5-9 pm
| where | 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621
| who | Each class is limited to 6 students. For beginner to intermediate woodworkers.
| tuition |
Our Full Session is $990 billed in four payments of $247.50. The Registration Fee of $215 (paid here) covers all materials for the course. Semester billing will begin after your first day of class with each payment being due by the last day of the billing month.
| 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, draw-knives, 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.
| projects include |
Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug
Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids
Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails
Instructor Ben Masterson
Update | The Winter Session will begin in March to join the program waitlist email info@foothillsarts.org
Full Session | March 3 through June 23 Monday evenings 5-9 pm
| where | 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621
| who | Each class is limited to 6 students. For beginner to intermediate woodworkers.
| tuition |
Our Full Session is $990 billed in four payments of $247.50. The Registration Fee of $215 (paid here) covers all materials for the course. Semester billing will begin after your first day of class with each payment being due by the last day of the billing month.
| 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, draw-knives, 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.
| projects include |
Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug
Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids
Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails
Instructor Ben Masterson
Update | The Winter Session will begin in March to join the program waitlist email info@foothillsarts.org
Full Session | March 3 through June 23 Monday evenings 5-9 pm
| where | 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621
| who | Each class is limited to 6 students. For beginner to intermediate woodworkers.
| tuition |
Our Full Session is $990 billed in four payments of $247.50. The Registration Fee of $215 (paid here) covers all materials for the course. Semester billing will begin after your first day of class with each payment being due by the last day of the billing month.
| 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, draw-knives, 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.
| projects include |
Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug
Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids
Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails