Joinery Concentration: Carcases and Frames with Gary Rogowski Two classes: Carcases: June 16-20 WAITING LIST Frames June 23-27 WAITING LIST 9AM to 4PM, $725 per week $1350 if registering for both. Plus Materials All skill levels |
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The understanding of joinery is fundamental to woodworking. But it’s too large a topic to cover in one week. We’ve split it into the two main categories: carcase work is our focus the first week. Learn the range of carcase joinery used to build everything from plywood cabinets to jewelry boxes to fine cabinetry. Learn how to lay-out a variety of joints like dovetails, finger joints, rabbets and dados. Get practice with hand cut dovetails, learn how to rout sliding dovetails, and get the tricks for machining accurate finger joints and carcase mortises. Learn about simple cabinet joints and how to cut a variety of rabbet and dado joints on the router table. You will leave this class with a thorough knowledge of the wide variety of carcase joinery.
Frame construction is our focus in the secondweek. Building frames encompasses everything from picture frames to chair making. Encounter the range of frame joinery from simple lap joints to mitered frames and mortise and tenon work. Practice methods for accurate lay-out. Learn how to cut simple lap joints, strengthened miters for picture frames, and discover half a dozen ways to cut mortise and tenons using hand tools, routers, and machines. You’ll get hands on work cutting blind mortises for leg and apron pieces or through wedged tenons for trestle construction. Learn techniques for making raised panels for doors. You will finish this class with a comprehensive knowledge of the wide array of frame joinery.
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| Register for week two, Joinery: Frames WAITING LIST |
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Gary Rogowski has been woodworking since 1974 and showing work in galleries locally and nationwide since 1976. His work was in the 1989 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. In 1991 he was awarded the Oregon Arts Commission fellowship in crafts. He founded The Northwest Woodworking Studio in 1997 with a background teaching wood since 1980. He taught locally at the Multnomah Arts Center, PCC, The World Forestry Center, and OCAC where he was Interim Department Head of Woodworking. He is a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine with several videos and two books out on joinery.