Wood Workshops
2012 Wood Workshops - Full Listings Now Available!
Weekend Workshops
May 11-13 
Understanding Multi-Axis Spindles
Barbara Dill
Fee: $330
Skill Level: Intermediate
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Description: Students will learn how to think about multi-axis spindle turning and how to organize this information. The essence of this material is that there are only two outcomes that occur when an axis is moved from the center axis of a spindle. If the wood is cut shallow enough to cut only the “air wood,” the outcome is arc type--meaning the spindle is not round, but has intersecting arcs cut into it. On the other hand, if the wood is cut deeply enough to reach the solid wood, the outcome will be circular. The major variables are the position of the axes and the profiles cut into the wood.
Bio: Barbara Dill earned a Master’s of Nursing degree from Boston University and practiced as a nurse for over twenty years before beginning her woodturning career in 1990. In 2006, she became obsessed with multi-axis spindles and has developed a way to understand and repeat the various results.
June 1-3
Turning for Food: Kitchen Utensils
Nick Cook
Fee: $330
Skill Level: Beginning-Advanced
Materials Fee: $75 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
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; www.nickcookwoodturner.com
Description: Students will learn how to make a variety of useful kitchen items such as honey dippers, rolling pins, basting brushes, coffee scoops, pepper mills, and much more.
Bio: Nick Cook owns and operates the only full-service woodturning studio in the metropolitan Atlanta area. He teaches and demonstrates at his studio, and in universities, craft schools, and woodworking shows throughout the US, Australia, and New Zealand.
June 22-24
Veneer & Marquetry Techniques
Alfred Sharp
Fee: $300
Skill Level: Intermediate
Materials Fee: Varies by project (to be paid directly to the instructor)
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Description: The proper use of veneer opens so many design and construction opportunities to the woodworker. We’ll spend an exciting weekend evaluating, sawing, arranging, and gluing various species of decorative woods. Techniques covered will include flattening veneer, cross-banding, cutting marquetry, hammer-gluing with hot hide glue, vacuum bag pressing, and finishing. A student should be able to take home a nice decorative box top or small table top.
Bio: Alf Sharp is a well-known furniture maker in the United States. He is a recipient of the Cartouche Award from the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, and president of the Furniture Society.
June 29-July 1
Multi-Piece Finials
Jimmy Greenwood
Fee: $330
Skill Level: Intermediate
Materials Fee: $25 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
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Description: Students will learn to make lathe-turned wood boxes with delicate finials. Finials will be turned with detail gouge and finished with a homemade hollowing tool.
Bio: Jimmy Greenwood is a self-taught woodturner. He has two videos on the market and two more in production.
One-week Workshops
*OPTIONAL: One-week workshops are available for 1 TTU elective credit hour; credit hour fees are in addition to workshop fee. For more information about credit hours, please click here.
May 20-25
Green Woodturning
Simon Levy
Fee: $550
Skill Level: Beginning-Intermediate
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Description: Learn to turn bowls, platters and open sculptural forms from fresh green wood. Instruction will include: lathe operation and safety, tool use and sharpening, wood characteristics, and object form and design. Hollow turning will also be demonstrated. Those interested should bring their own hollow turning tools.
Bio: Simon Levy has a background in professional graphic arts, and has been a full-time wood artist for the past fifteen years. His work consists primarily of turned wood vessels (some with lids and/or support elements), with an emphasis on surface design.
June 10-15
Turn What You Like, Like What You Turn! 
Clay Foster & Jennifer Shirley
Fee: $550
Skill Level: Beginning-Adanced
Materials Fee: $10 (to be paid directly to the instructors)
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Description: This week long class will allow turners of all skill levels to explore making things that they like and have an interest in. We’ll explore the turned vessel, lidded containers and the beautiful simplicity of the turned bowl. Techniques for surface enhancement, decoration, and presentation will be included. This will be a great week to focus on your individual desires to further your journey into being creative with the lathe and to turn what you like, and most importantly, like what you turn!
Bio: Jennifer Shirley has been working with wood for fifteen years and woodturning for thirteen years. Her work has been shown in several national exhibits and is in many private collections. She teaches at several craft schools.
Clay Foster has been learning woodturning for twenty-five years. A founding member and past vice president of the American Association of Woodturners, he has taught at schools and conferences in North America, England, Australia, and New Zealand. He maintains Harmony Studio with his partner, Jennifer Shirley, in Indianapolis, IN.
July 8-13
Chairmaking
Steven Tengelsen
Fee: $500
Skill Level: Beginning-Adanced
Materials Fee: TBA (to be paid directly to the instructor)
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; www.sptcabinetmakers.com
Description: Come make a simple, elegant, and highly-customizable dining chair. This will be a machinery-based class that looks at the structural and comfort requirements of a chair and will cover joinery on angled and curved surfaces. The instructor will provide the fabric for a simple upholstered seat. All skill levels welcome!
Bio: A former Craft Center resident, Steve Tengelsen has a BA from Humboldt State and an MA from San Diego State. He has lived in western North Carolina for 19 years now, making his living teaching and creating furniture.
Intensive in Wood*
*OPTIONAL: This workshop is available for 3 TTU elective credit hours; credit hour fees are in addition to workshop fee. For more information about credit hours, please click here.
July 24-August 10
Learning from History: Building 3 Classic Furniture Pieces
Graham Campbell
Fee: $1,750
Materials Fee: Will depend on exact materials chosen for projects (to be paid to the ACC Wood Dept.)
Skill Level: Beginning-Intermediate
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Description: Each participant will make three pieces, each of which will help students learn multiple furniture-making techniques. Students will build a Shaker wall-hung cabinet, a Mid-Century organic stool, and an oval Federal table with a drawer. The class will include the use of power tools, hand tools, and jigs during the building processes. Techniques that will be covered include dovetails, mortise and tenon, bent lamination, bricklay, veneer making, drawers, frame and panel, hinging, pattern, and free-form shaping. Whether participants are just getting started, or already have some experience, this class will enhance anyone's woodworking skills.
Bio: Campbell studied fine woodworking at the Wendell Castle School, and he completed an MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. After teaching at both schools, he was hired to head the Wood Department of TTU's Appalachian Center for Craft. He has continued in this role for the last 20 years and is active in service to the field. The furniture he makes can be found in many public and private collections, and in the books Scratching the Surface, Designing Furniture, 500 Tables and 500 Chairs.
**Workshop check-in is Tuesday, July 24, 2012; class begins Wednesday, July 25 @ 9am.
