School of Woodworking Newsletter

themselves in passing on their skills and we now have a the generation that such a move produced. This fall the Center for Essential Education will be sponsoring a unique two-day workshop designed to reestablish teaching patterns to help parents teach their children woodworking at home. The workshop is scheduled twice, the first one is scheduled for October 10th- 11th and again December 12- 13th. Parents will learn to make a series of six projects that will teach basic sharpening, joinery, layout and shaping

subsequent workshops for fathers to attend so they can continue to help their children develop their woodworking skills even further. We have a complete curriculum for woodworking that will guide fathers to higher levels and over a period of three or four years children can develop hand skills that will remain with them throughout their life.

This workshop is limited to sixteen students so please be sure to reserve

skills used in woodworking. These skills will then provide a basic foundation course for children to begin woodworking with

your place as soon as you can arrange your schedule.

Friday
Day 1:
Making a spatula
Making a wooden spoon
Making a cutting board
Making a walking staff
Making a wooden bowl

Saturday
Day 2:
Sharpening and using hand tools
Laying out and making a dado joints
Laying out and making a dovetail joint
Laying out and making a mortise and tenon joint
Building a peg rack

Friday Evening

Dinner at Homestead Farms Deli followed by slide presentation and discussion session on woodworking with children. The cost of the meal with dessert will be $12 per person.

Schedule of Events

A new tool for routing dadoes and inlay work.
A few months ago I gave a friend of mine a small Stanley router and asked him if he could produce something similar but in solid bronze. The result was a beautiful new plane that has the kind of heft reminiscent of hand planes produced a century or so ago. The cutting iron is made from O1 steel.

The plane glides smoothly across the surface of the wood and the added weight of the tool helps keep the plane stable as you work. The polished bronze body is individually cast by hand using traditional sand casting methods. The plane costs $65 and comes ready to use.
Call the School to order.