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Turning Lidded Boxes 2024

This five day class is designed to provide students with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of wood turning in a fun, open and sharing atmosphere. Whether you are a beginner, or wanting to improve on your current skills, this workshop will guide you through tool selection, sharpening, safety, techniques and will help you realize the possibilities of turning. Students will begin with spindle turning then progress into faceplate turning to make small bowls or platters. Aspects of design and surface embellishment with the use of milk paint and texture will also be explored. Each student will leave with a series of finished objects and a solid understanding of wood turning and its potential as an art form. 

 

Turning Lidded Boxes: Fine Design, Detail, and Form on the Lathe

5 Days, Open to All

Spring 2024
April 8-12

In this five-day course, professional turner Matt Monaco will introduce and guide you in creating lidded containers on the lathe. Students will learn to masterfully execute and create elegant and beautifully proportioned turned vessels, with an emphasis on fine turned details. Individual styles and aesthetics will be explored, and under Matt’s guidance, students will establish a professional baseline for designing and creating exceptional lidded containers.

In this five-day turning workshop students will learn:

  • Effective cutting techniques based on principles of grain orientation and fine tool control

  • Designing and executing in a series

  • Developing your eye for fine form, line, and curve in relation to tactility and feel of an object

  • Developing body finesse and control to achieve fine detail and clean cut with the full range of turning tools

  • Confidence and skill in sharpening and shaping tools, as well as basic modifications for better surface results

  • Understanding wood selection   

  • Creating a fine finish on a turned object

  • Making sense of the difference between utilitarian & functional art, and fine craft.

In addition, each student will complete at least one lidded container, but hopefully more as time allows.

Tools

None. PTSW will provide all the required tools. However, if you want to bring along your own turning tools and work with them, we encourage you to do so.

Required Equipment

  • High collar shirt or turning smock

  • Hair tie for long hair

  • Pencils

  • Paper/sketchbook

Recommended/Optional Equipment

Personal protective equipment (face shield, mask, and safety glasses) that is comfortable 
Turning tools if you have them; roughing gouge, spindle gouge, parting tool, bowl gouge, bedan tool, and skew.

Prerequisites

Open to all. Beginning and experienced woodworkers will be inspired and challenged during this course.

Class Information and Registration

Class runs from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday in Building 315 at Fort Worden. Map
Please read our What to Expect page for general information about the school.
Please also read our Registration Policy.
Please sign up for the waitlist if the course is full.

Class size: 12
Cost: $895
Materials Charge: $75

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