This course will introduce students to a method for breaking down a board and using a design that can create a stool, a bench, or even a table. Students will use handsaws, shooting boards, hand planes and winding sticks to cut and square components. Accurate mortise and tenon joints will create the solid stool structure. The special considerations for wedged mortise and tenon joints will be covered. Students will be introduced to the use of a drill press for making mortises, and chisels and a router plane will be used to create dadoes. Once the joinery is established students will prepare and execute a complex glue-up. Final clean-up and prep will result in a stool ready for finishing. We will spend time considering maintenance and sharpening of hand tools. Time permitting, there will be discussion of furniture finishing options. This course is suitable for students who have taken the introductory Women into Woodworking course at Intersections, or similar experience.

This is a four day workshop on two consecutive weekends (Saturdays and Sundays). Each day will begin at 9:00 am and end at around 4:00 pm. The workshop will be held at Intersections Wood Collaborative at 299 10th Street E., Owen Sound.

Suitable for intermediate woodworkers and above

Materials fee payable to instructor at start of class.