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Box Making - Laser Cutting and Design
From keepsake to wine boxes, coaster to jewelry boxes, learn to make beautiful and functional boxes of all kinds. Add engraving, glass, stains and other finishes for a unique, personalized and useful creation. Learn how to design with Inkscape, a powerful, open source and free graphic design tool and then experience the versatility of the laser cutter and the art of hand finishing to create your desired size, shape, color and finish. You will...
Music & Making with Subaiou Zhang and Alyssa Lawson
Listen to beautiful music performed by Subaiou Zhang (violin) and Alyssa Lawson (cello) from Spectacle Collective while you enjoy casual making in our lovely and intimate performance space. The Music You will be listening to music for violin and cello across different styles. Music with a theme of spring will range from 18th century French baroque, to jazz and tango. The Making Enjoy casual making while relaxing to beautiful music. Options will...
Windsor Chairs
Chairs are one of the most challenging objects to design and build. Students work with green wood and hand tools to create one of the iconic forms of American furniture: the Windsor Chair. Building a Windsor chair is not about learning a style, it’s about learning a technology, a way of working with wood that is a wide departure from the usual flat and square. The class covers all the steps from tree to chair. Students split parts from a log, shave...
All levels
18 and older
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Turned, Lidded Boxes
This class explores the turned lidded box, showing a variety of options. As most lidded boxes are end-grain turned, considerable time is spent exploring how to hollow and finely finish off end-grain. This includes a look at using hook and ring type tools. From there students make at least three finished boxes of differing features. This includes different types of joints, joint details, texturing, inlay and shapes. Students also have you a chance...
All levels
18 and older
Introduction to the Skew Chisel
Take a detailed look at this somewhat challenging woodturning tool. Students start by learning the process of refining, shaping and obtaining scary sharp edges, then execute a number of practice pieces focusing on at least eight different cuts. On the second day, discover a series of projects that apply techniques learned. These projects include at least the following: tool handle, finial, door stop, egg, and spinning top. Prerequisite: Students...
Beginner
18 and older
Upholstery Immersion
The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA
Learn to upholster with a project all your own. Join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. In this open-format class, there is no set curriculum. Instead, the instructor will circulate throughout the classroom, giving upholstery instruction at all levels. Start with a dining chair or ottoman (large chairs take more than one semester). Bring your piece to the first class. We have limited storage-space on-site, so...
All levels
17 and older
Introduction to Bowl Turning
This two-day class introduces students to faceplate and bowl turning, which is very different from spindle turning. In bowl turning, the grain of the wood is typically perpendicular to the bed of the lathe; in spindle turning, the grain is parallel to the bed of the lathe. Various methods of attaching the wood to the lathe and an overview of sharpening the appropriate tools for bowl turning are covered. Hands-on projects include small bowls and plates....
Beginner
18 and older
Introduction to Shellac
Move beyond the limitations of premixed shellac and unlock the full range of possibilities of this versatile finish. Topics to be covered include surface prep, mixing dry flakes, brushing, padding, french polishing and final polishing. Students are required to bring the items on the below supply list to the first day of class: 2 squeeze bottles (like restaurant ketchup bottles) 2" chip brush Sanding block Super blonde shellac flakes...
Beginner
18 and older
Woodworking Basics: Picture Frames
Using the table saw, router and various fixtures, students learn how to make a mitered picture frame in this two-day class. Students can choose from a selection of routers bits to mold their frame and give it a unique look. Different techniques to glue up the frames are covered. Each frame is splined to give it added strength.
Beginner
18 and older
Shaker Boxes
Learn about the history of the Shakers and their woodcraft. Shaker furniture is practical yet elegant in its simplicity. Working with prepared box bands, students learn to bevel, steam, and bend Shaker box bands then fit and tack them to lids and bottoms. Each student makes two to three boxes.
All levels
18 and older
Woodworking 101
Interested in woodworking and looking for a way to get started? This course is designed to introduce students to safely use common woodworking machines and hand tools. We discuss how to approach work in the machine shop and at the workbench. Students take rough boards and machine them to useful sizes before taking the parts to the bench to work with planes and other hand tools. We work towards the completion of a small wall shelf.
Beginner
18 and older
Woodturning Open Studio
North Bennet Street School @ 150 North St, Boston, MA
This open shop is designed for students who have recently taken a bowl turning class at NBSS and are comfortable using a bowl gouge and scraper. Please arrive on time for a brief overview and demonstration. No additional instruction is given during the open studio, however a studio monitor is available for safety and assistance. If you would like more instruction, you may sign up for the Introduction to Bowl Turning class again; it is designed for...
All levels
18 and older
$203.78
Introduction to The Router
This class covers the safe use of the electric router. The router is used primarily on a router table for this class and the techniques are applicable to many projects. The following methods will be shown; pattern making, pattern pit flush cutting, use of feather boards, edge profiling, flushing edge banding, splined miters and lock miters for joining boards.
Beginner
18 and older
Turning Natural Edge Bowls
Woodcraft of Woburn @ 185 New Boston St, Woburn, MA
Turn natural edge bowls from wet local hardwoods recently cut and provided by instructor. Students will receive a refresher in the fundamental gouge and scraper cutting techniques. We focus on developing an eye for making a pleasing shape while incorporating the bark of the tree as the rim of the bowl. We touch-up your graceful bevel-guided cutting technique thus helping you to form the smooth curves of the bowl. This bowl requires a steady...
All levels
18 and older
Wood Turning: Shallow Plates
The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA
Create your own custom, hand-wrought vessels from wood. Start with pieces of tree limbs and trunks, make them round and take off from there. Beginners learn basic lathe techniques while experienced students advance to the next level at their own pace. Wood will be provided in class; advanced turners may bring their own. Masks are required indoors. Vaccinations required for all eligible students. Materials to bring to class: Tools and materials provided...
All levels
17 and older
$130
Open Shop: Bowl Turning
This open shop is designed for students who have recently taken a bowl turning class at NBSS and are comfortable using a bowl gouge and scraper. Please arrive on time for a brief overview and demonstration. No additional instruction is given during the open studio, however a studio monitor is available for safety and assistance. If you would like more instruction, you may sign up for the Introduction to Bowl Turning class again, it is designed for...
Intermediate
18 and older
Basic Tool Sharpening
The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA
Learn to sharpen your own tools. Start by preparing, sharpening and honing a 1" chisel and a card scraper, then move on to plane irons, carving tools, and more. Materials Please bring: A new 1" chisel A new card scraper Any woodworking edge tools you want to sharpen- we'll take these on after sharpening the two new tools. A $10 materials fee is payable in class.
All levels
17 and older
$66
Soap Making and Soap Crafting
Assabet After Dark @ 215 Fitchburg St, Boston, MA
Learn two soap making techniques in one evening. This three hour class consists of a lecture, demo and hands on portion, where students will make both cold Process soap from scratch and enjoy some soap crafting with Melt and Pour pre-made base. Each student will take home 2 bars of each type of soap.
All levels
18 and older
$55
Creating Naturally - Monotype Printing with Ink
The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA
Create unique prints using oil-based water-soluble inks and a portable etching press. Organic materials and found objects such as eggshells, leaves, feathers, meshes, and bubble wrap introduce texture and compositional surprises to your piece. Materials All materials will be provided by instructor. $15 materials fee payable in-class to instructor.
All levels
13 and older
$70
Free Open Workshop
Woodcraft of Woburn @ 185 New Boston St, Woburn, MA
Let Michael and his 40 years woodworking experience answer questions and show how to complete your new or stalled projects. Topics to be covered will depend on student/instructors round table discussion at the end of class. Tools Required: Pencil, Paper and ideas
All levels
18 and older
Free
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