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April 2019
Learn and Refine Your Wood Carving Skills | Alex Grabovetskiy
Learn How to do Classical Carving | Traditional Carving Techniques for Beginners & Intermediates This traditional carving class, taught by world renown Alexander Grabovetskiy , will give you the skills to add creative, unique details to all your wood working projects. This class will advance your abilities, no matter if you are new to carving or have been working on your skills for a while. You need to have a solid foundation…
Find out more »Carve It. Burn It. Color It with Dixie Biggs
Carving, Pyrography & Color Work with Dixie Biggs Need Some Relief? Learn to add interest and dimension to your work using carving, burning and color work in this gradually progressing class. Want to add personality to your wood turnings through surface enhancements and relief carving? Is your rotary power carver or wood burner you bought that’s still in the box? It’s time to break them out! You will start out by making a sampler disc that will incorporate the various…
Find out more »May 2019
Sharpening Clinic for Handtools
Sharp tools are an absolute joy to use while dull ones will leave you frustrated and your projects sub par. In this one day clinic you will learn how to sharpen your chisels, and hand planes using a variety of methods. This can be one of the most valuable skills you can learn this year. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn and improve this skill. Level:Open to All What You’ll Learn:Through a series of demonstrations and hands on practice, you…
Find out more »June 2019
Wood Carving with Alex Grabovetskiy – Sunday
Learn How to do Classical Carving Sunday Class Traditional Carving Techniques for Beginners & Intermediates This traditional carving class, taught by world renown Alexander Grabovetskiy , will give you the skills to add creative, unique details to all your wood working projects. This class will advance your abilities, no matter if you are new to carving or have been working on your skills for a while. In this extended one day class you will practice of carving approaches, techniques and use…
Find out more »Learn to Burn, Inlay and Gild
Learn to Burn, Inlay and Gild Level: Open to All Taught by Kelly Parker and Kate Swann this 2-day action-packed technique class will show you a wide variety of ways to embellish your work. In between the demos, there will be plenty of time for hands-on practice of the techniques. Students will be encouraged to play and explore as they learn to take their work to a whole new level of WOW! You will have the opportunity to work on…
Find out more »August 2019
Sharpening Clinic for Handtools
Sharp tools are an absolute joy to use while dull ones will leave you frustrated and your projects sub par. In this one day clinic you will learn how to sharpen your chisels, and hand planes using a variety of methods. This can be one of the most valuable skills you can learn this year. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn and improve this skill. Level:Open to All What You’ll Learn:Through a series of demonstrations and hands on practice, you…
Find out more »September 2019
Power Carving and Wood Burning | Dixie Biggs
Power Carving and Wood Burning Class Learn about relief carving and pyrography Power carving - add personality to your work pieces through surface enhancements and relief carving. Discover embellishment techniques like power carving, wood burning / pyrography that can be used by tuners, furniture makers, artists and sculptors using rotary power carvers, and woodburners, to expand the visual impact of your pieces. No experience is needed. This class is focused on off-lathe and off machinery techniques, so while the ability…
Find out more »Conference | Society of American Period Furniture Makers
Learn About Making American Period Furniture This will be a one day event featuring presentations by five local Florida Society of American Period Furniture Makers chapter members on a variety of topics. Fees: Free to SAPFM members. Non members $20 NOTE: On the check out page please select "NO " when asked "First time you have registered? * Yes No"
Find out more »November 2019
Greenwood Spoon Carving with Jason Lonon
How to Carve Traditional Spoons Spoon carving! Come discover an addictive new hobby, or sharpen your skills in pursuit of the perfect spoon. Just think how impressive it will be when you're camping and hand carve everyone a spoon, or serve a beautiful meal with custom made utensils for your guests! Learn how to carve traditional spoons from green wood with a minimum of tools. Starting with a hatchet, a knife, and a bent spoon…
Find out more »Carve an Appalachian Green Wood Bowl with an Adze | Jason Lonon
Carve an Appalachian Green Wood Bowl with an Adze - Open to All Get ready to turn an ordinary green wood log into a beautiful functional bowl using traditional Appalachian style skills. In this class taught by Jason Lonon, you’ll learn to sculpt wood into one-of-a-kind graceful vessels using traditional tools such as axes adze sloyd knives drawknives spokeshaves and gouges After covering wood selection and layout, we will focus on adze technique and axemanship. You…
Find out more »December 2019
Wood Carving with Alex Grabovetskiy
Learn How to do Classical Carving Traditional Carving Techniques for Beginners & Intermediates This traditional carving class, taught by world renown Alexander Grabovetskiy , will give you the skills to add creative, unique details to all your wood working projects. This class will advance your abilities, no matter if you are new to carving or have been working on your skills for a while. In this extended one day class you will practice of carving approaches, techniques and use a wide…
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