This course is an introduction to furniture making with an emphasis on the use of hand tools and simple easy to use machines like the 14” bandsaw and portable planer. You will learn how to sharpen and maintain chisels, planes, and card scrapers as well as set up the bandsaw and planer. Selecting and milling lumber in preparation for cutting joints by hand and machines will be covered. Students will construct a small table using air-dried wood with four different joints and be encouraged to design their own table legs, which will be shaped in a unique way. There will be lectures on the nature of wood, shop drawing, selecting adhesives and finishes, buying a basic set of tools, setting up a small workshop, and making key jigs. This is the woodworking course most people wish they would have taken when they first started woodworking.
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More About this Instructor…
Michael Fortune maintains his studio near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he designs one-of-a-kind furniture for private residences across North America. He has taught at Sheridan College, Ryerson University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Savannah College of Art and Design. He was the first woodworker to receive the prestigious Prix Bronfman Award, Canada’s highest award in the crafts. Michael has won dozens of honors, awards, and prizes. His work is on permanent collection at several museums, including Claridge Collection of Canadian Art and Craft in Montreal, Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, and the Ontario Crafts Council Collection. He was recently inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and awarded a Queen’s Jubilee medal and has been featured in just about every woodworking magazine in existence. Michael received the Award of Distinction from the Furniture Society in 2007 and in 2010 became a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking. Michael is not only featured in The Difference Makers published by The Lost Art Press, but his #1 Chairs grace the front cover. This is Michael’s 22nd year teaching at MASW.
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