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Students in the Nine-month Comprehensive and Twelve-week Furniture Intensive are bending and veneering, while our Twelve-week Turning Intensive students are working on offset turning and architectural carving. Here's the latest from around campus....

Bruce is here from Shelburne, VT, to teach the Curves component of the Nine-month Comprehensive. He is the co-owner of Beeken Parsons, where he divides his time between batch production seating and furniture for private and corporate clients.

More great Community Classes are in the line up this winter!

Machine Maintenance
Mark Juliana & Mason McBrien
January 31 - February 1

This class covers set up, maintenance, and repair of the essential woodworking machines. Instruction includes: replacing and setting jointer and planer knives; installing and setting bandsaw blades; safe set up of table saws; tips for calibration; and tune-up techniques. Students work on machines side-by-side with our highly experienced facilities managers.

 

Starting with Hand Tools
Kenneth Kortemeier
February 7-8

 

This class introduces the fundamentals of woodworking with hand tools such as saws, chisels, planes, and drawknives. Participants learn safe and efficient techniques for cutting boards to length and width, smoothing surfaces, shaping edges, and creating simple joinery. Basic sharpening, measuring, and layout are also covered. Students complete small stepstool/benches to bring home.

 

Visit our website for the complete list of Community Classes.
To register, please call 207-594-5611.

"Beautility," an exhibition of exceptional, functional products in wood, opens on Friday, January 23rd with a public reception from 5-7pm. The exhibition will be on view at the Messler Gallery through April 1, 2015. Beautility celebrates otherwise ordinary objects - such as buckets, bicycles, boats, and brooms - that achieve beauty through fitness to purpose and conscientious construction.

Companies represented in "Beautility" include: Analog Watch Co. (Philadelphia, PA), Baldwin Apple Ladders (Brooks, ME), B�wer Company (Neuenkirchen, Germany), Forge and Brooms (Hillsboro, WV), Cottrell Boatbuilders (Searsport, ME), David Rasmussen Design (Carbondale, CO), David Trubridge (Aotearoa, New Zealand), Erba Cycles (Boston, MA), Grain Surfboards (York, ME), Hakuhodo (Hiroshima, Japan), Herrlicht (Erfurt, Germany), JD Wagner, Rodmaker (Parma Heights, OH), Leon Dutch Design (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands), Ligneah (Rome, Italy), Lumio (San Francisco, CA), Or�e Artisans (Castelnaudary, France), Pine Buckets Cooperage (Tucson, AZ), Tahir Mahmood Designs (Toronto, Canada), Thank Nature (Santa Rosa, CA), Theriault's Snowshoes (Fort Kent Mills, ME), Valencia Designs (Brooklyn, NY), and Warehouse (Ottawa, Canada).

Images: (top) Sherwood Rug, linen, wood veneer, 760cm x 90cm; (bottom) Erban Bamboo Bicycle, bamboo, hemp, 36"x72"x18".