full session | traditional woodworking I

Instructor Ben Masterson

| when | Fall Session: Saturday, August 3 through Saturday, November 23.

Saturdays 9 am until 4 pm with a one-hour lunch break at noon.

| where | This semester will be held in the lower level of 111 West Main St. in downtown Elkin. Access from the rear of the building off West Depot Alley.

Public Parking is located at the corner of West Depot Alley off South Front Street. Additional parking is available at East Depot Alley off South Bridge Street.

| who | Each class is limited to 6 students. For the beginner to intermediate woodworkers.

| tuition | $990 (payable in four monthly installments) first payment due at the time of registration. If you’d prefer to be billed in full, please email info@foothillsarts.org.

| 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. Students will also experience some timber work in the field.

| projects include |

• Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trig

• 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