Registration closes March 25 so the instructor can prepare materials.
Dates: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 2-4, 2027 9am-5pm
Optional: Thursday, April 1, 6pm Craft On the Road Craft Night Series geek session with chairmaker Gabe Strand
Description: (3 days) Beginner
This workshop uses a fun project to introduce the concepts and techniques behind staked joinery while imparting key hand tool skills, working mostly on a shave horse with drawknives and drilling accurately with hand drills. Students will build a 4-legged stool using hand tools, then on the final day, weave seats using shaker tape.
Every skill covered in this class is related to greenwood chairmaking on a smaller scale: splitting parts from a log, shaping parts with a drawknife, making round mortise and tenon joints and using wedges to secure them, drilling compound angles by eye, and weaving a seat. This course is well-suited to beginners looking for an introduction to working this way, without a full week-long commitment to building a chair.
Required Tools:
Pencil
?
Optional Tools:
Feel free to bring
Workshop Fee: $
Materials fee: $? to be paid directly to the instructor during class.
GABE STRAND of Green Cove Craft designs furniture, woodworking plans, and tools intended to support makers in the exploration of handcraft. He writes about craft, teaches woodworking classes, and publishes zines in an effort to engage people in making and thinking about handmade objects, how they shape us and our communities. Currently his focus is on developing tools for fiber artists and woodworkers (coming soon!), teaching low-tech greenwood chairmaking courses, and expanding the Green Cove Craft library of zines.
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Chair Making: Shaker Tape Wooden Stool with Gabe Strand
Registration closes March 25 so the instructor can prepare materials.
Dates: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 2-4, 2027 9am-5pm
Optional: Thursday, April 1, 6pm Craft On the Road Craft Night Series geek session with chairmaker Gabe Strand
Description: (3 days) Beginner
This workshop uses a fun project to introduce the concepts and techniques behind staked joinery while imparting key hand tool skills, working mostly on a shave horse with drawknives and drilling accurately with hand drills. Students will build a 4-legged stool using hand tools, then on the final day, weave seats using shaker tape.
Every skill covered in this class is related to greenwood chairmaking on a smaller scale: splitting parts from a log, shaping parts with a drawknife, making round mortise and tenon joints and using wedges to secure them, drilling compound angles by eye, and weaving a seat. This course is well-suited to beginners looking for an introduction to working this way, without a full week-long commitment to building a chair.
Required Tools:
Pencil
?
Optional Tools:
Feel free to bring
Workshop Fee: $
Materials fee: $? to be paid directly to the instructor during class.
GABE STRAND of Green Cove Craft designs furniture, woodworking plans, and tools intended to support makers in the exploration of handcraft. He writes about craft, teaches woodworking classes, and publishes zines in an effort to engage people in making and thinking about handmade objects, how they shape us and our communities. Currently his focus is on developing tools for fiber artists and woodworkers (coming soon!), teaching low-tech greenwood chairmaking courses, and expanding the Green Cove Craft library of zines.
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