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Make a Spring Pole Lathe with Roy Underhill
July 11-13th, 9AM to 4PM, WAITING LIST
$450 Plus Materials, All levels

Come meet Roy, watch a spring pole lathe demonstration and enter a raffle to win it.
Raffle proceeds will go to OPB.
July 13th, 3PM, Free

The tool list for this class is available here in pdf format.

Roy Underhill brings an infectious warmth and wit to woodworking unmatched by any other television show. Come spend time with Roy as you build a spring pole lathe using hand tools only to create this wonderful tool. Based on an early German design, it will run all day (or until your leg wears out). It is exceptionally stable and compact, built with keyed mortise and tenon joints throughout so it will last. You’ll learn to shave the spring poles and do some basic metal working as well for the lathe centers. This will be a level of woodworking that few get to experience and then you get to walk home with a working lathe. Your grandfather might not have had one but we’re betting he wished he did.

 

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A talk with Roy Underhill
July 13, 3PM
Come listen to Roy Underhill unearth the mysteries of hand tool woodworking. Roy is a master at hand tool work. Watch and learn as he chops, saws, and cajoles his way through a series of old time woodworking techniques. Then join us as we raffle off our shop built spring pole lathe for Oregon Public Broadcasting. All proceeds will go directly to OPB who sponsors The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill. This promises to be a fun afternoon.

Roy Underhill is a former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg. He has been teaching subversive woodworking for over thirty years. He is the author of five books on traditional woodcraft and the creator of the PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop.

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