Build an Arts & Crafts Style Step Stool $495

• Instructor: Ernie Conover

• Prerequisites: None

• Max Enrollment: 3

• Price: $495 (includes all instruction time, materials) Lunch provided by student. A nonrefundable $$75 deposit is required to secure a spot in this class with the balance due two weeks prior to the course beginning.

• Date Offered: September 16 to 17 (Sat-Sun) 8:30am-4:30pm

This new course is aimed at those aspiring to use hand tools effectively. Over a weekend you will attach the legs to an arts and crafts style step stool with hand-cut dovetail and add a stretcher that is through mortised into the legs. The protruding through tenon will be cross mortised for a “tusk” tenon which is more stylistic than fictional.  

In this intensive weekend you will learn to:

·      Use a hand plane to smooth wood.

·      Layout and hand-cut through dovetails.

·      Layout and hand-cut mortise and tenon joints.

·      Sharpen and use your chisels and handplane properly

·      Apply an arts and crafts style finish

o   Fume the wood with ammonia

o   Apply a padded shellac finish

Please join Ernie Conover for this intensive weekend class.