Class Description:

This workshop is an excellent next step for anyone who has already begun to learn the fundamentals of woodturning.  Beth leads participants through a series of projects that utilize proper spindle and end-grain turning techniques to create boxes, vessels, and bowls. Additionally, students learn to make custom tools for hollowing and specialized applications.

Beth emphasizes safe and efficient tool handling throughout. She also creates a supportive atmosphere in which students can develop their creative voices. Among the decorative skills she covers are architectural carving for twists and patterns, offset turning, and pyrography.

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the course fee at Pine Croft.

Class Description:

We’ll build a contemporary green wood low back chair with a flat reed seat and back (or hickory bark depending on availability) in this 6-day class. Students will split pieces from a log, shape the parts on the shave horse, bend the back posts and slats, add the carved leg details, and completely assemble the frame before weaving in the seat and back on the final day. Final finishing to be done at home, once the chair and seat have time to dry.

Open to all skill levels. The slender parts, along with rake and splay, make for a fun and challenging build.

Students need to bring a small tool kit.

Recommended Tool List:

Needed:

• Drawknife
• Spokeshave (Flat or Round bottomed, flat will be a little easier)

Recommended: (please bring – especially the first eight on this list – but don’t run out to purchase if you don’t own one yet)

• Pencil
• Utility or Pocket Knife
• Tape Measure
• Sliding Bevel Gauges
• Tenon or Dovetail Saw
• Sharp Chisels (1/4″ and 1″)
• Pocket Knife or (small) Straight Carving Knife
• Claw Hammer
• Handsaw (smaller crosscut saw – ideally a tenon saw, though most anything will do)
• Framing Square or 24″ Straight Edge
• Deadblow or Lump Hammer
• Block Plane
• Compass (scribe)
• Card Scraper

We’ll use/cover, but not needed: (please bring if you have them)

• bevel setting gauge or protractor (a way to find angle for the sliding bevel gauge)

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the course fee at Pine Croft.

Class Description:

In this weeklong class, we will dive into cabinetmaking and demystifying tambour doors.
Students will learn the specific techniques necessary for designing a cabinet with tambour
doors. We will tackle carcase joinery, create the track, assemble solid wood tambours, make
jigs, install interior walls to allow for storage, and learn tactics necessary make it all come
together. Each student will craft their own wall-hanging cabinet ready to store tea (or anything
else)! This class will be jam packed with strategies and tricks so you can include these
satisfying sliding doors into your future projects.

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the class fee at Pine Croft.

Class Description:

This week long class will give students a glimpse into the rocking chair production process developed for this chair over at Student Craft.

Katie Bister worked in the Woodcraft studio of Student Craft for all four years of her tenure at Berea College. Adept and willing to try many mediums in the craft world, Katie connected with the idea and practice of chairmaking. Over the course of her senior year, she set about to design a chair for the Student Craft catalog. Working alongside Director of Woodcraft, Rob Spiece the two spent the year iterating different ideas. After 6 months and 12 different chairs, they refined the vision into the People Collection Rocker. It’s an armless rocker that encourages an active participant to knit, strum, or rock backwards if they’d like.

This class will be a solid foundation in chairmaking that covers hand carving the seat, round mortise and tenon joinery, turning for furniture, bent lamination, drilling angled joinery accurately, and building an approach to making that suits your own workshop. We’ll share our jigs and processes used to produce these at Student Craft, but will also show you ways to approach this build with the tooling you have available.

If you don’t have any experience in the world of chairmaking, I’d recommend taking our People Collection Stool class first. This will be an ambitious six days to make this rocker from scratch!

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the course fee at Pine Croft.

Class Description:

This class will introduce weavers to native black willow bark, a very strong, flexible and beautiful fiber uncommonly used for basketry. Class participants will learn fiber preparation by removing the outer bark layer from portions of precut strips prior to constructing a small basket and bark harvesting will be discussed. Students are encouraged to create freely, choosing from variety of weaving techniques for the basket body and twining techniques for border design options. Cordage making for optional handle application will also be taught. All skill levels are welcome.

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the course fee at Pine Croft.