| 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