Intro to Woodworking & Furniture Design - Wood, Hand Tools and Joinery
Instructor: Helen Helfand
Class Assistant: El Cook
Prerequisite: Core Tool Certification and some hand tool experience.
Join us for this eight-class series that is designed to help you move from basic machine competence to designing and making your first furniture pieces.
In these series, we will introduce the fundamentals of wood as a material and learn an abbreviated history of wood and furniture design.
We will move from our understanding of wood as a material into learning how to design furniture in wood, and making our first piece.
We will refresh students on the hand tool skills from the as part of the series. We will spend time designing our pieces and planning the customizations each student would like to include.
We will discuss the many considerations to make when designing a new piece, and prepare you to think like a woodworker and furniture designer.
From drawing to model-making, choosing wood to the milling process, cutting our joinery by hand and with machines, sanding and gluing up, you will get an overview of the process of bringing a piece from idea to reality. Materials will be provided.
PPE required: hearing protection, safety glasses, dust mask (as needed), closed-toed shoes.
Students should also bring: a fine point mechanical pencil and a tape measure. If you have your own combination square and marking knife, bring them, however, the Studio has plenty to use.
PPE required: hearing protection, safety glasses, dust mask (as needed), closed-toed shoes.
Students should also bring: a fine point mechanical pencil and a tape measure. If you have your own combination square and marking knife, bring them, however, the Studio has plenty to use.