John Cameron & Clark Kellogg
June 8-19
Well-tuned, sharp tools are the foundation of good workmanship, while their skilled use is one of life’s great pleasures. When the tool is one you have made, this pleasure only increases. Come learn to get crisp, accurate results from chisels, planes, spokeshaves, and other traditional woodworking tools such as marking gauges and knives.
In this exercise-based workshop, John and Clark provide thorough instruction in selecting and tuning up your tools, hollow-grinding and honing razor-sharp edges, cutting mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joints, planing boards four-square, fairing curves, and more. In the first week, students will make a wooden handplane that is used throughout the class. In the second week, students tackle a small project—a low stool or box—using their newly-made plane and exploring new techniques. Whether you work entirely without electricity or seek to combine the quiet satisfactions and adaptability of hand tools with the more rigid efficiencies of machinery, the skills acquired in this course are invaluable.
John Cameron designs and builds fine furniture in Gloucester, MA. He studied with James Krenov at the College of the Redwoods from 1992-94, and is currently a juried member of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters. John has exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Show, the Currier Museum of Art, and Boston’s Society of Arts and Crafts, among other venues. Publications include With Wakened Hands (Cambium Press, 2000) and Fine Woodworking. John’s website is johncameroncabinetmaker.com.
Clark Kellogg is a self-employed furniture maker in Houston, TX, who exhibits nationally. After earning a BA in Studio Art from the University of Virginia in 2003, he completed our Nine-month Comprehensive and, later, the Fine Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, CA. Clark is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking, and has been published in Fine Homebuilding, American Craft, and Letter Arts Review. His website is kelloggfurniture.com.
Open to novice and intermediate woodworkers.
