April 5-6, 2014, Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 4pm
Not too late, a few more seats available.
Join us for the first of our Tiny House Classes, a joint venture between Tiny House Blog, Northwest Woodworking Studio, and the Reclaimed Wood Blog. Presented at The Northwest Woodworking Studio, 1002 SE 8th Ave, Portland Oregon.
In this two day workshop you will learn from Master Woodworker Gary Rogowski about furniture design and building techniques as we build The Brilliant Chair.
The skills you learn in this workshop are ones you can take home to use on furniture, woodworking, and Tiny House projects.
They include:
- Hand tool use for accurate measuring and marking
- Sawing with chop saws, saber saws, and band saws
- Hand plane techniques for cleaning up lumber, texturing, and prepping surfaces
- Assembly techniques
- Using portable drills and screws
- Wood finishing
This is a great project that you’ll love building and using.
Also included in the two day class tuition are these added values:
Salvage Works of North Portland will also give a short demonstration on how to pick the correct materials using reclaimed lumber.
EB Tools is supplying two of their new KwickGripper nail pulling tools for a drawing. They will also offer 20% off coupons for those who do not win the tool to purchase one from their website. TheKwickGripper is a $30 value.
CeCe of CeCe Caldwell Paints has agreed to come in and talk about her great paints with the class. She is also providing every student with a free quart of paint of the color of their choice.
Plans for The Brilliant Chair come as part of the class from The Northwest Woodworking Studio.
Finally as a bonus you will receive a six month subscription to the Tiny House Magazine in PDF format.
To learn more and sign up click here.
Only twelve spaces available so sign up right away. Go to www.NorthwestWoodworking.com to enroll.
know of anything like this on the east coast?
Yes please…there must be some creative thinkers on the East Coast! Im so eager for some hands on classes in small and green..
i am too far away to participate but am wondering if this workshop or parts of this will be available to your fans via video clips or written materials or specs? i love that chair and would like very much an opportunity to try my hands at it. thank you in advance of your reply
Hi Debra, I will check to see if the plans will be made available for those who can’t come.
It’s a variation of the Aldo Leopold bench:
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres/wildones/handbk/wo27bench.html
thanks, et. the aldo bench is very similar, no doubt the inspiration. the info with it is wonderful as well.
Also on the east coast. this sounds like a great workshop for those of us who could not take wood shop in high school.
do you offer a class on the east coast?
Hi Et! We’re not trying to claim credit for the design of the chair, just to teach students how to build it using the tools and techniques of fine woodworking.
I think you mean, “Not TOO late.”
Thanks Josh, I corrected that one!
Has anyone here sat in this chair? It doesn’t look very comfortable.