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| Our Education programs are focused on improving the quality of woodworking at KCWG. Here, you will find the resources and opportunities to upgrade your woodworking skills. Questions regarding Education and Training may be directed to Kara Paris, Director of Training at: Training@kcwoodworkersguild.org . |
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Clinics are free and open to all KCWG members. You may bring a guest. There may be a materials fee if the clinic is hands on. Workshops are short in nature ... 3 or 4 meeting sessions. There will be a tuition charge for the workshops and a possible materials fee. Classes are on going with four or more meeting sessions. There will be a tuition charge for the classes and a possible materials fee. Woodworker Plus memberships will receive 20% off of the tuition only for the Classes & the Workshops, with no discount on the materials fees. Library about the Guild's Books, Tapes, and Magazines
Warning: Thousand Cankers Disease in Black Walnut Trees
If we buy wood from Western
states on Craigslist, eBay, etc., we should make sure that it has no
bark, as the beetle is present only in the bark. If we buy lumber in
person from someone in the Western states, to request that logs
and/or boards be de-barked prior to loading them, and moving them to
the Midwest.
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Put to Practice the Knowledge that is shared ... "Over a lifetime we hear and see tens-of-thousands of great ideas. It is our ability to put to action even a minute fraction of these tidbits that shapes our lives and determines our growth and skills. I refer to this practice as the Nugget Theory. Whether it be a demonstration, an article, or how-to video, it is the presenter’s responsibility to showcase meaningful and educational material. But ultimately, it is each person’s ability to put to practice pieces of this information that determines the value of the shared ideas. Like a miner panning for a single nugget of gold, our ability to grow stems from what not what we absorb, but what we employ. As a father, writer, speaker, and demonstrator, I’ve always strived to not only educate and entertain, but to get the audience to put to practice the knowledge that is shared." Quote by Marlen Kemmet, Managing Editor of WOOD Magazine (Thanks to the De Moines Woodworkers' Association) |
Clinics, Classes, & Workshops Kara Paris will keep working on scheduling more Classes, Clinics & Workshops. If you know of a workshop or class that you would like to have or teach please let Kara know. To sign up email Kara Paris at training@kcwoodworkersguild.org Chippendale Claw & Ball Footstool Presented by Calvin Hobbs
This is a 5 week advanced class, Tuesday nights from 6 PM to10 PM, starting February 7 running thorough March 6, 2012. Tuition $275.00 Materials $ 75.00 Space is limited so please sign up with Kara Paris ASAP! training@kcwoodworkersguild.org If you were taking this class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking the Tuition for the class alone would be $725.00, plus room and travel.
2/7 – Review of overall piece, tackle joinery (mortise and tenon), start cabriole legs. 2/14 – Shaping of legs, begin carving ball and claw feet. 2/21 - Carving ball and claw feet. 2/28 – Carving, glue up piece at the end of this class. 3/6 – Final details, slip seat, upholstery, discussion on finishing.
Processes that you will learn: · Period furniture basic techniques · Traditional mortise and tenon joinery · Shaping cabriole legs · Beginning carving techniques, carving ball and claw feet, shell carving · Beginner upholstery
Materials should be mahogany or walnut. Secondary can be poplar. Minor amount of upholstery materials will be needed (jute webbing, burlap, muslin) Calvin will be in charge of material procurement. About Calvin Hobbs: 
Calvin Hobbs began woodworking as a teenager, working with his father Ben Hobbs in his North Carolina furniture making business. After a few years off, he began to re-introduce himself to the craft when his daughter needed a chest of drawers. Since 2004 he has been pursuing his passion of period furniture, mostly in Queen Anne and Chippendale styles. His pieces are characterized by traditional joinery, such as mortise and tenon or hand-cut dovetails. Additionally, he has become proficient at shaping and carving, which are required in many period pieces.
As an active member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM), he has organized regional SAPFM meetings in Kansas City for the last two years. His work has been presented at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and he has been a member of the Kansas City Woodworker’s Guild since 2007.
Calvin lives in Overland Park, KS, where he is married and has two “pre-teen” children. Winter 2012 NC101 — Beginning Machine Woodworking night class. 3 hours per night, 13 weeks, Thursday nights, Begins, Thursday January 19, 2012 to April 12, 2012, 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM. You will receive your green name tag during class (safety orientation and test). Class size is limited. Be sure you purchase the "Saw Dust Maker" or "Woodworker Plus" membership to be allowed to work in the shop. The class emphasis will always be on SAFETY! This is a “hands on project based” class where you will gain knowledge and skills in the safe use of machines and tools. You will learn some wood identification, and characteristics, how to read and follow plans, steps in project planning, problem-solving, beginning joinery, fastening, clamping, gluing, sanding, and finishing. There will be a limited choice of projects. You will be learning processes to build on by learning some basics in machine woodworking. There are three other items you will need for class; safety glasses, a tape measure and a 3 ring binder or a folder that has pockets.
Tuition $215 Plus $45 materials fee, Total $260
Woodworker Plus Members $172 Plus $45 materials fee, total $217
For information about this class please e-mail Kara Paris at training@kcwoodworkersguild.org
Soon to be announced:
Raised Panel Small Blanket Chest class with Scott Engelmann. End Grain Cutting Board workshop with Scott Engelmann. Five Minute Mortise & Tenon Joint Clinic with Bill Johnston & Gary Creek Mentoring Session in Your Shop! Please submit your articles to: communication@kcwoodworkersguild.org . Your articles, either ready for publishing or ready for editing (please specify), along with pictures are welcome for publishing on the website or in the Newsletter. Blackening Wood – on Accident … on Purpose (includes discussion on blackening metal) Making Your Own Tools … A Journeyman Cabinetmaker's Tool Chest The Old Turnscrew Looked Pretty Sad Patternmaking, Handcrafted Tools, and Fred Früh The Franken-Side-Rabbet Creature The Adventure of the Six Board Chest (aka My First Dovetails) along with The Ideal Mill Common Tool Definitions (humor) Stories of a Woodworker by John Tegeler aka Mr. Radial Arm Saw Chapter 1 The Discovery (originally published in Wood Words) A Cabinetmaker's Workbench by Louis Armstrong (originally published in Wood Words) I Need to Borrow a Saw (humor) Junior Strasil's Portable Workbench in Pictures & Text Constructing Wooden Handles for Fly Rods Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon and Panel Raising Clinic with Don Kruse (Text by Rob Young and Pictures by Bill Ward) Make a Wooden Whistle With Handtools Woodworking with Small Children Reviews Woodriver Plane (Sold by Woodcraft Supply) Worksharp, The Woodworking Tool Sharpener Stanley Sweetheart 60-1/2 Block Plane Review Articles Recommended by Members Air and Solar Drying of Hardwood Lumber Benjamin Hobbs Biography (Pencil Post Bed Presentation) Woodwork (1905 Sloyd Method Manual) by Weisgerber, Bernie; Vachowski, Brian, 1999. An Ax to Grind: A Practical Ax Manual. 60 p.A practical and detailed handbook about axes and their historic and continuing usage. Describes types and patterns of axes and adzes, with many photos and illustrations. Shows how to hang (re-handle) and sharpen axes. Describes proper ax usage for tree felling, limbing, bucking, splitting, and hewing. Lists procurement sources and selected references.Keywords: axes, adzes, hand tools, hewing, historic buildings, historic forestry practices, log cabin restoration, traditional AmericanaKevin Thomas' Holtzapffel Workbench Introduction by Christopher Schwarz (5 minutes to download on a fast connection, 105 MB) Videos & Pictures |
