Advanced Forms and Processes

  
 

Date:  October 4, 2010

  
     
  Tuition and Materials: $760 Cdn   
     
        In this 5-day course, we will use a variety of more advanced techniques in order to “break out of the box” of rectilinear furniture designs. A combination of demonstrations and hands on practice will familiarize students with the variety of processes summarized below. While nobody will go home with a completed piece of furniture, each student will build components that can be incorporated into a finished piece at some point in the future.
  
     
        Form Making, Core Making, Veneering, and Vacuum Pressing: We use laminated core panels for doors and other components where stability, strength and minimal seasonal movement are important. Using a vacuum press, students will make up their own multi-layer cores from a variety of materials suitable for both flat and curved work. After applying and flushing a solid wood edge band, we attach face veneers using the vacuum press.   
       
       
 

   Compression Steam Bending: Students will learn to make compression steam bends. This method allows you to bend large cross section parts of woods like cherry, maple and walnut that are not traditionally though of as “bending woods”. We will explore the limits of bending, how to build a steam box, how long to steam parts for and how to select the right grain orientation in your bending blanks.
       
        Kerf Bending and Veneering: We will look at methods of kerf bending and their applications, and the use of commercial veneer to create complex curved parts. We will make 2-part MDF kerfed forms to create curved and tapered parts.  
     
         
         Bent Laminations: Solid wood bent laminations are very common for making curved yet extremely strong components. Students will create a bent laminated table apron, suitable for a bow-front hall table. We will trim the aprons and cut joinery into the ends of the aprons to attach table legs using floating tenons. Students will use a shop made jig to hold the aprons at a specific angle in order to mortise them to receive an off axis, floating tenon.
         
       Tapered Bent Laminations: A demonstration on how to make lamination tapering forms and how to make curved and tapered components will be included – a technique frequently used in making chair components and other parts where the thickness varies from one end to the other.  
     
  Recommended Pre-requisites: Excellence With Hand Tools and Mastering Machinery  
     
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