Hand Tool Course at Arrowmont
Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi
>This is kind of late notice, but if anyone has some free time the week of April 11-17, Larry Williams, form Clark and Williams, is teaching a course about using hand tools at Arrowmont School for the Arts and Crafts in Gatlinberg, Tn. To quote the course description:
"The goals of this class are for students to achieve basic hand tool skills for stock preparation, joinery, finish planing, and to gain an appreciation of the advantages and efficiency of hand tools. Students will receive an introduction to classic furniture proportions and traditional moldings. The basic guidelines of classical proportions and acquired knowledge of moldings is intended to give students greater design control in producing contemporary or traditional pieces. They will also learn to economically produce small quantities of properly scaled moldings necessary to produce their own visually appealing projects." These sugjects come up in many threads here at Wood Central regularly, so it will be a week of getting many of the questions about hand tool woodworking answered.
I've taken courses at Arrowmont before and it is a great environment to spend a week learning about hand tool use. I've also taken a class from Larry Williams before and I can't say enough about him as an individual and teacher.
It's my understanding that there are a couple of openings left for this class, so if you have some vacation time coming up or you just want to treat yourself to a great time sign up for this course, I think you will enjoy it.
Jim Crammond, a satisfied customer of Arrowmont and of a Larry Williams plane making class.