Upcoming Classes
BARN
Glue and Clamps
Monday November 18 2-5 pm
2 Sessions
Tablesaw Techniques
Monday September 23 and Monday September 30 6-9 pm
Monday December 2 and Monday December 9, Noon - 3 pm
2 Sessions
Sanding and Abrasives
Monday November 18 6-9 pm
2 Sessions
Router Basics
Monday and Tuesday November 25 and 26, 6-9 pm
Monday December 2 and Monday December 9, 6-9 pm
Make a Krenov-Style Wooden Curved Bottom Hand Plane
https://www.create.bainbridgebarn.org/AssnFe/ev.asp?ID=5320592
Make a wooden bodied curved bottom plane in the style favored by famed cabinetmaker James Krenov.
Monday November 25 and Tuesday November 26, 2-5 pm
Project Planning / Woodworking Basics
Thursday December 5, and Thursday December 12, 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
See the steps by which I, an experienced furniture maker, go through before I'm ready to build a project. Then, with my guidance, you will go through these steps on a project of your choice.
The main frame is sketched.
Cental case and doors.
Side cases.
The sketches lead to an actual scaled drawing. Proportioning happens during this drafting process. From the execution of this drawing, methods of joinery and order of processes are thought out. From this scaled drawing, a stock list is prepared. An outlined project procedure is written.
The piece results from the organized process.
Wooden Boat Festival
Building a Traditional Sliding Rowing Seat
Friday September 6, 2024 9:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Port Townsend
Maritime Center
Discovery Stage
This seat is a minimalist form, ergonomically evolved for comfortable maximum power transmission from the rower to the oars. It is patterned after the seats in the John Wieland, a restored 1877 six oared (sweep) Whitehall lapstrake rowing barge in the fleet of the Dolphin Club in San Francisco.
My interest in seating was first inspired by John Kassay, a longtime professor at San Francisco State University. He was the author of 2 U. Mass. Press books, the second being The Book of American Windsor Furniture. The sliding seat is a bottom shaped slab, like a Windsor seat and the steps to making it are the same.
In this lecture demo, I will show the development of parts with partially assembled seats in various stages so that attendees can see the complete process.
Saturday September 7, 2024 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Wooden Boat Festival
Port Townsend
Maritime Center
Boat Yard Stage
Dovetails allow boards to be joined at the ends to form a carcase or box. The joint is mechanically strong and provides a large surface area of good fiber contact for glue adhesion. Further the box’s component boards can move with humidity change, with no restriction or grain conflict through the box or at the joint.
In this lecture/ demonstration, I will discuss and show examples of various dovetail joints: through, half-blind, sliding (french), housed tapered and variations on these forms. I will cut and fit one dovetailed part.
