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Instructor: Cathryn Peters

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Cathryn Peters

Cathryn Peters

Cathryn Peters has been restoring wicker furniture, weaving chair seats and teaching those skills for over 40 years. She has a special passion for passing on her skills to others, so the craft does not become a lost art.

Cathryn has taught chair caning, other seat weaving techniques, and basketry across the country through woodworking schools, folk schools, basket guild workshops, and community education programs. And her antler basketry is frequently juried into art exhibitions and gallery shows nationwide.

Her efforts in the craft business, furniture restoration, and basketry world are mentioned in many books and periodicals including the Crafts Report, Basket Bits, Splint Woven Basketry, and most recently, English Arts and Crafts Furniture by cabinet maker, Nancy Hiller.

Cathryn is a founding member of the first and only North American chair caning guild, called The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.® and served two terms as President since its inception in 2007 until 2011.

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Instructor: Nancy Hiller

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Nancy Hiller

Nancy Hiller is a full-time professional cabinetmaker with nearly 40 years’ experience. She specializes in period-style work for buildings of the late-19th through mid-20th centuries.

Hiller trained through the City & Guilds of London and worked for two shops in England before moving back to the United States in 1987. Here she worked for other shops before starting her business, NR Hiller Design, in 1995. Her work was chosen for exhibit in the Fearless Furniture show at the Indiana State Museum and she has been a presenter at Woodworking in America (2016) and Fine Woodworking Live (2019). She has taught at the Kelly Mehler School of Woodworking, Marc Adams School of Woodworking, Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild, and Lost Art Press storefront. She is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking Magazine and has written for Popular Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, and other national publications. In
addition, she has authored four books — English Arts & Crafts Furniture, Making Things Work, A Home of Her Own, and The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History — and is working on a book about kitchens for Lost Art Press.

Sep 30
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Instructor: Megan Fitzpatrick

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Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick is the publisher at Rude Mechanicals Press and a peripatetic woodworking instructor and freelance writer/editor; she is a former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, and now writes a monthly blog for Fine Woodworking. She lives in Cincinnati where she’s renovating a 1905 house, but can usually be found in the Lost Art Press shop in Covington, Ky.

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Instructor: Peter Galbert

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Peter Galbert

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Peter Galbert is a full time chairmaker, toolmaker, teacher and writer.

Peter has taught at many craft schools around the country including the Penland School of Crafts, the North Bennet Street School, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking, Highland Woodworking, the Arrowmont School of Crafts and The Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Besides making chairs and teaching, Peter also writes the Chairnotes blog and produces the Galbert Caliper as well as other woodworking tools. He currently lives and works in Boston, MA. In 2015, he published his first book Chairmaker’s Notebook with Lost Art Press

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Instructor: Kelly Mehler

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Kelly Mehler

Kelly’s professional career began in 1977 and he opened his first commercial furniture shop in Berea in 1978. Kelly’s formal training began at the University of Cincinnati’s Ohio College of Applied Science and he continued his education in the Industrial Arts program at Berea College where he was mentored by instructor and wood turner Rude Osolnik. Kelly is the author of The Tablesaw Book, is featured in two Fine Woodworking Videos, and has contributed numerous articles to Fine Woodworking magazine, Wood magazine, American Woodworker, Popular Woodworking, Woodworkers Journal, Custom Woodworking Business magazine, and the Time/Life woodworking book series.

Sep 18
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Class: Andy Glenn – Building Skills: Woodworking Foundations

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May 18-23, 2020

Andy Glenn

Building Skills: Woodworking Foundations

$950 (total cost including instruction and materials)

Description:

This is a great place to begin.  This class is designed for students looking for hand tool and benchwork skills.  We’ll start with the basics – how wood moves and how to work it, how to sharpen and care for hand tools, and the basic joinery of woodworking.

Over these six days we’ll cover: sharpening, tool selection and usage, wood movement and joinery, and we’ll finish the week by working on a dovetailed bench-top tool tote.  Joinery covered: mortise and tenon, dovetail and bridle joint.

The goal here is for a beginning woodworker to gain confidence and skills to tackle new projects upon the completion of the course.

A fully catered lunch is included and served every day and drinks and snacks are provided all day. Please let us know in advance of any special dietary needs. It is a good idea to make your lodging reservations well in advance.

Tools:

Chisels

Plane(s)

Combination Square

Cutting Gauge

Bevel Gauge

Marking Knife

Mallet/Deadblow Hammer

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Sep 18
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Class: Andy Glenn – Spindle Turning

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Azariah at the lathe

June 6, 2020

Andy Glenn

Spindle Turning

$150 (total cost including instruction and materials)

Description:

On June 6th, we’ll cover all things spindle-turning related.  This course is for those interested in turning for furniture or architectural details (as opposed to bowl turning – which we will discuss during the class but not attempt).   Held at our lathe studio on campus, we’ll practice turning with the four common spindle turning tools – the roughing gouge, skew, parting tool, and spindle gouge. With these four tools, and a little practice, you’ll be able to produce turned details to your future projects.

A fully catered lunch is included and served every day and drinks and snacks are provided all day. Please let us know in advance of any special dietary needs. It is a good idea to make your lodging reservations well in advance.

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Sep 18
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Class: Andy Glenn – Blanket Chest

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July 27-31, 2020

Andy Glenn

Blanket Chest

$1,150 (total cost including instruction and materials)

Description:

A home for your blankets.

We’ll take five days to build this traditional chest with contemporary details.  Students will start with a kit of cherry parts, all cut to size (meaning there’s no milling in this class).  We’ll proceed towards benchwork and the hand details that make the piece. All hand-cut dovetails throughout the case, this chest will challenge student’s skills with the saw and chisel.

Though primarily a bench work class, there will be machine work during the week.  We’ll cut the top to fit, route the lid recess, and machine the base details.

The base detailing are optional, meaning this could be a more traditional design without the feet cut-out and the added molding piece wrapping the lower case – simply the box shape. Students can opt for the more traditional (and less work) option if they prefer.  Strap hinges hold the lid to the case.

Sharp chisels and planes are a must.  While no expert knowledge is necessary, being able to comfortably use your tools would be helpful for this class.

A fully catered lunch is included and served every day and drinks and snacks are provided all day. Please let us know in advance of any special dietary needs. It is a good idea to make your lodging reservations well in advance.

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Sep 18
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Class: Andy Glenn – Windsor Side Table

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July 10-12, 2020

Andy Glenn

Windsor Side Table

$475 (total cost including instruction and materials)

Description:

The windsor form is characterized by all parts terminating at a common piece.  In a windsor chair, that’s the seat, where the legs and upper assemble all come to meet.  We’ll use that same design and technology to make our small windsor table.

This is primarily a wood turning course, as first we’ll practice at the lathe, then turn the legs and stretchers, along with the table top, before assembling the parts on the final day.

 Tables will be made of cherry or walnut.  We will also discuss turning details and students can produce the leg – and the look – of their choosing.  (Two are depicted to show different details, though we’ll only create one during the class).

A fully catered lunch is included and served every day and drinks and snacks are provided all day. Please let us know in advance of any special dietary needs. It is a good idea to make your lodging reservations well in advance.

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Sep 18
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Class: Andy Glenn – Weekend Dovetail Madness

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May 30 & 31, 2020

Andy Glenn

Weekend Dovetail Madness

$325 (total cost including instruction and materials)

Description:

Two days and as many dovetails as we can muster.  We’ll cover how to layout, cut and fit this common woodworking joint – and how to fix any issues that crop up along the way.  Over this weekend, we’ll primarily focus on through and half-blind dovetails (the most common dovetails found in case construction).  And I’m sure we’ll find the time to argue whether cutting pins or tails first is the correct way to approach things. Should be a fun weekend.

Please bring your chisels, saw, bevel gauge, cutting gauge, marking knife and combination square (we have spares of all of these – so no worries if your kit is missing something).

A fully catered lunch is included and served every day and drinks and snacks are provided all day. Please let us know in advance of any special dietary needs. It is a good idea to make your lodging reservations well in advance.

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