Intermediate Furniture Making
Lacewood Sidetables by Peter Shepard, lacewood and ebony (18"x16"x18"), 1999
Peter Shepard
June 21 – July 2
Participants hone their joinery and construction skills by designing and building small tables. Any type of table is fair game—four-legged tables with aprons, trestle tables, or pedestal-based tables—and more ambitious features such as drawers and shelves are optional. Starting with a design process that includes mock-ups and full-scale drawings, Peter shares his broad knowledge of solid-wood construction and traditional joinery. Through lecture and demonstration he addresses wood movement; lumber selection; stock preparation; joinery with hand tools and machinery; cutting tapers on a table saw; making round, elliptical, and oval tops; drawer making and fitting; and much more. This is an excellent follow-up to the Basic Woodworking course.
Peter Shepard designs and builds custom furniture in Harvard, Massachusetts. He sells his work, primarily, through prestigious craft shows such as the Smithsonian Craft Show, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, and the American Craft Council Craft Show in Baltimore. Peter’s work has been featured in Fine Woodworking (issues 141 and 145) and Woodwork (issue 44) and was represented in The Custom Furniture Source Book (Taunton Press, 2001). To see more of Peter’s work, go to www.petershepardfurniture.com.