2008 Rosewood Studio School of Fine Woodworking Workshop

Date Added: February 17, 2008 01:21:09 PM

Author: Rosewood Studio

Excellence With Hand Tools Workshop

Dates: January 7, 2008 (5-Day) April 7, 2008 (5-Day) May 5, 2008 (5-Day) June 23, 2008 (5-Day) Sept 2, 2008 (5-Day Tuesday to Saturday)

Tuition: $845 Cdn

Tuition fees include required materials

Well developed hand tool skills are essential to efficiently creating fine furniture in the small shop, and are one of the great pleasures of making furniture as an avocation. With today’s emphasis on speed and instant gratification, many woodworkers have developed proficiency with power tools without learning the benefits and acquiring the skills of hand tool use. This course is designed to help you develop or improve these skills, which are intrinsic to the type of carefully made, high quality furniture we strive to create.

In the first course in our Craftsmanship series, we cover in depth the preparation and use of hand tools basic to the craft of furniture making. In a small shop, as opposed to a factory environment, use of hand tools is often more efficient than doing the required machine set up to produce results of comparable accuracy, to say nothing of lesser health risks and savings in space and machinery costs.

We work with students to develop their skills in preparing and using hand planes to produce beautiful surfaces ready for finish without the mess, cost and health risks involved in working through successive grits of sandpaper. We delve into the differences between various hand planes available to today’s craftsmen, and how they affect the performance of the tools. You’ll learn to sharpen and tune your planes to maximize their performance, and various means of getting a keen edge on irons quickly and efficiently. We go through a similar process with all of the basic hand tools used in the making of fine furniture, including chisels, scrapers, spokeshaves, hand saws and layout, marking and measuring tools.

By the end of the week, we pull it all together and have you hand cutting through dovetails. Along the way we’ll explore the physical nature and working properties of wood, a key to understanding what is and isn’t possible in building with this versatile yet at times frustrating material.

As this course is our pre-requisite for the other courses at Rosewood Studio, we will also cover the safe operation of the jointer, planer, band saw and table saw. Students will use these machines in the preparation of materials for their dovetailing exercise, but may opt to have these materials prepared for them if they should choose not to use machinery.

Of Special Note We believe the material covered in this course is fundamental to safely receiving the maximum benefit from our other programs, as most of our classes assume the student has the skills, knowledge and safety training covered herein. If you are confident that you already posses these skills, we will waive the requirement for this class as a pre-requisite, but do so with the student’s understanding that we cannot alter the timetable and material scheduled in other courses in order to cover skills the student is assumed to posses. We’re sure you can appreciate our position on this, and thank you for your understanding.

Pre-requisites: Open to Everyone

Contact: toll free at 1-866-704-7778

Details: http://www.rosewoodstudio.com/

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