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The Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild Presents ....

                          .... Making a Pencil Post Bed with Ben Hobbs

March 19 – 21, 2010

Work Shop Times

Friday Night March 19, 7pm  Free to all - Slide Show Presentation

Saturday March 20, 9am - 4pm

Sunday March 21, 9am - 4pm

Direct from his school of woodworking in Hertford, North Carolina where Ben teaches and makes Early American Furniture reproductions.

Learn laying out and forming the tapering octagonal posts of the popular bed style, mortise-and-tenon joints held together with bolts and a rigid steel mattress support system. This class is great for a beginning woodworker.

bullet KCWWG Ben Hobbs Brochure
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Ben Hobbs Biography

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Read about Ben Hobbs' School in the Woodworker's Gazette

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Learn how to use the hand tools ... hand planes, scrapers, rasps, handsaws and a host of other tools, traditional techniques, and designs from the 18th century.

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 "Hobbs is a natural teacher … just-firm-enough approach to woodworking." … Tim Schreiner, former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine.

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Ben stressed the use of a variety of hand tools and his explanations included not only the use of a particular tool, but often the history, adjustments, and care of the tools. ... David Beach, The Woodworker’s Gazette

                        

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