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| 2008 Woodturning | 2008 Glass |
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    Troop 9 in Flower Mound learns to turn pens! |
April 18-20 Only 1 opening left! Cost: $335.00 plus lab and material fees Beginner and Intermediate Level This 3 day class will be a great refresher for people with some glass experience and will bring the beginner along very quickly as you make several projects with more difficulty than the usual beginner class. |
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June
27th-28th Class is full Cost: $285.00 plus lab and material fees Incorporate precious metals into your woodturning. Learn to inlay silver to decorate your artwork. Learn to spin silver and add value and master a new skill. |
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June 29th-30th
Class is full Cost: $285.00 plus lab and material fees Tool Techniques, Design and Shape, Forms and Aesthetics Students will learn how to turn and finish a large platter and a long stem goblet unsupported. Included will be a discussion on design shape form and aesthetics, why we need different bevel angles on tools, and how to sharpen them to the best advantage. |
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July 7-8th
Only 3 openings left! Cost: $285.00 plus lab and material fees Enjoy a great class with Eli from Israel! A class turning between centers and using chucks. Perfect your skills using a skew and gouge correctly by making identical candelstick holders. Then work with segmenting techniques with Eli's star segment. Then turn a segmented box and a segmented goblet. This class will teach design, form, and efficient and easy sharpening skills. |
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July 9-11th
Only 4 openings left! Cost: $425.00 plus lab and material fees Enjoy a second great class with Eli from Israel! Learn to use the Eli Avisera jig for making inlay and then turn a bowl/platter with a combination of inlay. Learn or improve your skill turning a hollow form using segmenting and inlay. This class will aslo include texturing techniques using chatter tools and coloring. You will turn boxes, tops, (dreidels) and more. Look and understad wood and efficient ways of turning wood which led to the design of the unique Eli Avisera tools. These two classes with Eli will sharpen your mind and your skills! |
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August 1-2nd
Only 3 openings left! Cost: $285 plus lab and material fees This is a two day workshop on how to produce
the traditional style turned wood ornament consisting of a hollow globe with decorative
top finial and a matching long ice sickle bottom. The first half day consists of an
introduction to the techniques for hollowing the globe using a reverse lathe rotation
technique and special hollowing tool supplied by the instructor. The tools and the
techniques can easily be learned and adapted to the more traditional counter clockwise
lathe rotation. The second half of the first day will be used for developing the spindle
turning techniques needed to turn a long and delicate decorative icicle that will match
the top finial which covers the access holes that were used for hollowing the small globe.
The second day will be used to further expand the hollowing techniques by learning to make
rustic bird house style ornament. Upon completion of the class all participants should have several examples of each style of ornament and have a complete understanding of the techniques and tools used to produce these projects in their own studios. This is an intermediate level class. All participants should have reasonable experience with, a roughing gouge and a half-inch spindle gouge. Minimal experience with a skew chisel is also helpful but is not necessary. The tools required for the class shall include a 1 inch or larger roughing gouge, a half-inch spindle gouge and a parting tool and will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring any other tools that may help adapt their personal style. |
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August 3-4th
Only 3 openings left! Cost: $285 plus lab and material fees This is a two-day course on how to produce a hollow form vessel using an unusual but more comfortable reverse rotation of the lathe. The first half day consists of an introduction to the techniques of mounting the material and shaping the outside of a pleasing vessel using traditional turning practices. Later in the day we will cover hollowing the inside of the form using a reverse lathe rotation technique and special hollowing tools supplied by the instructor. Two separate but complimentary methods for gauging wall thickness will be taught. The first is by wire caliper the second is by the use of a laser. All tools and the techniques can easily be learned and adapted to the more traditional counter clockwise lathe rotation. Upon completion of the class all participants should have competed a couple of small hollow forms and have a complete understanding of the techniques and tools used to produce these projects in their own studios. This is an intermediate level class. All participants should have reasonable experience with, a roughing gouge and a half-inch spindle gouge and bowl gouge. Minimal experience with a skew chisel is also helpful but is not necessary. The tools required for the class will include a 1 inch or larger roughing gouge, a half-inch spindle or bowl gouge and a parting tool and will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring any other tools that may help adapt their personal style. |
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September 6-7th Only 4 openings left! Cost: $285.00 plus lab and material fees Learn or review basics of segmenting to sharpen or reinforce your skills. Review tools and techniques required for accurate cuts and glue joints. |
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September 8-12th
Only 4 openings left! Cost: $695.00 plus lab and material fees Prerequisite is introduction class or some segmented turning experience What would it be like to understand wood, wood movement, grain orientation, and accurate gluin methods in a segmented turning before you spend countless hours assembling the project only to discover that the project is going to delaminate? At first glance, a segmented woodturning can be quite intimidating. This workshop, geared towards woodworkers and woodturners of all skill levels, will help you avoid the inherent pitfalls of wood you may encounter if you ignore the tendencies of wood as well as remove the intimidation of segmented wood. Throughout the week, each student working at his or her own pace, will acquire foundational skills necessary to properly construct and turn a segmented bowl. Skills will be acquired that will enable the student to look at a complex segmented pattern and break it down into smaller more understandable steps. By learning cutting, shear scraping, and turning skills as well as many time saving lamination techniques, the participant will become more proficient in the segmentation process and a more developed woodworker and woodturner. |
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October 18th-19th Only 2 openings left! Beginner Level Introduction to warm glass will take students from basic safety to slumping, draping and fusing glass. Learn to make bowls, vases, and platters. No experience is necessary. Take beautiful pieces home and get hooked on a new hobby! |
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October 20th- 24th
Only 1 opening left! Cost: $695.00 plus lab and material fees Prerequisite for woodturners is
Introduction to Warm Glass Have you ever looked at a piece of wood and asked yourself how you could do more with it? Have you ever looked at a piece of glass and felt like it need something to warm it up? This is the class that will let you see how the two media can be joined and not look like two completely different pieces of art that have been put together just to say you did it. This is not a class to teach you how to turn wood or to fuse glass. This is the class that will start you in a new direction. You will take home a piece of art that will start you on your way to seeing art in a new way. This will be an intense class, so be ready to roll up your sleeves and get busy. This is an art class, a woodturning class, and a glass class that will open new doors and test your skills. |
October 20th-24th
Only 1 opening left!
Cost: $695 plus lab and material fees Prerequisite for woodturners is
Introduction to Warm Glass Have you ever looked at a piece of wood and asked yourself how you could do more with it? Have you ever looked at a piece of glass and felt like it need something to warm it up? This is the class that will let you see how the two media can be joined and not look like two completely different pieces of art that have been put together just to say you did it. This is not a class to teach you how to turn wood or to fuse glass. This is the class that will start you in a new direction. You will take home a piece of art that will start you on your way to seeing art in a new way. This will be an intense class, so be ready to roll up your sleeves and get busy. This is an art class, a woodturning class, and a glass class that will open new doors and test your skills. |
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| Coming in 2009!
February
23-24 Only 3 openings left! Cost: $300.00 plus lab and material fees Description coming soon!
February
25-26 Only 3 openings left! Cost: $300.00 plus lab and material fees Description coming soon! |