From Garrett Hack

Hand tools open new vistas of efficiency, accuracy, and enjoyment for woodworkers, even those with modest skills. In this course, Garrett leads participants through a series of exercises, based on typical furniture making techniques, which expand and refine their hand tool skills. These include flattening boards to polished smoothness, fairing curves, fitting drawer faces, making moldings, chamfering edges, and cutting joinery, among other skills.

Garrett covers tuning and use of a wide variety of planes, marking tools, chisels and saws. Participants are encouraged to work with several different kinds of wood to feel the way each responds to the tools. More experienced students may choose more complex challenges such as shaping a bowed drawer face, joining and smoothing a coopered panel, or tapering a leg and then fitting an angled joint to it

If you are planning on bringing your own tools which we recommend please review Garrett's Tool List.

You are welcome to use the School's tools. Each workbench is equipped with a set of Lee Valley / Veritas tools and had a good selection of teaching hand tools. However you will learn a lot more if you bring your own tools and learn to tune them under Garrett's watchful eye.

Class size      8
Cost               $435

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