Woodworking Class: Shaker Bentwood Boxes (Size 4-6)

Make Shaker Bentwood Boxes (Size 4, 5 & 6)


Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
53k
5.0 (4)

8 hours Class size 1 to 8 guests

$480 (Afterpay available)

Melbourne
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Craft
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Woodworking
Engage with the unique history of bentwood Shaker boxes at this unique Melbourne workshop with Matt Stonehouse.
This class is designed for those who have completed our Woodworking Class: Small Shaker Bentwood Boxes for sizes one, two and three. It is recommended that you try that workshop prior to this one.
First made over two hundred years ago, these containers were made by Shakers for community use and for sale to the ‘world’s people’ until well into the 20th Century. They were used to hold foodstuffs in the pantry, buttons for the seamstress and tacks in the shop.
Graceful, well made and of widespread utility, they represent virtues of the Shaker order itself. These beautiful boxes were first made from hard maple and white pine.
As you make sizes six and seven of these boxes, discover more about their unique history. You will learn how to bevel, steam and bend the bands and how to fit and tack them to lids and bottoms. Due to the extra-large box sizes, we will be utilising a slightly different technique to hold the fingers down during bending. This technique has been adopted from Japan.
Time permitting, we will also cover finishing with shellac, milk paint and/or wax.
Knowledge required
Beginners welcome!
 
What you'll get
Three beautifully crafted Shaker bentwood boxes.
 
What to bring
A sketchpad and pencil.
 
Location

14 Cottage Street, Blackburn VIC

Woodworking Class: Shaker Bentwood Boxes (Size 4-6) location
Your teacher

Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking

53k
5.0 (4)

The Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking (The Guild) was founded by Alastair Boell in 2007. After graduating from the world-renowned North Bennet Street School, Boston, USA, Alastair felt that there was a great need in Australia for an educational facility that focuses on traditional skills.
The Guild is conveniently located in Blackburn and provides three different course formats:
  • Our open courses offer ongoing morning, afternoon and evening woodworking classes for students of any level to undertake a project of their own desire.
  • Our weekly project-based courses are geared towards beginners or anyone interested in a more structured class where everyone works on the same project once a week and where the start and finish dates are set.
  • Our intensive project-based courses are for those who would like to immerse themselves in a project and have it completed in the shortest possible time. These courses range from a one-day course to an eight-day course.
Our student-teacher ratios are very low which enables each student to get some one-on-one instruction time from our highly qualified instructors.
Our facilities include a fully equipped machine room, four classrooms with workbenches, numerous hand tools, hardware, finishing products and a variety of exotic salvaged timbers. We also offer onsite milling with our own mill and an in-house workshop milling service. For those interested in ‘Commission’ work, we have a gifted community of furniture designers/makers on the call.
The Guild is committed to preserving and advancing craft traditions in furniture making. We are also committed to promoting greater awareness and appreciation of craftsmanship. In our classes, we emphasise the skilful use of hand tools and power equipment and informed use of appropriate materials and proportions.
We are passionate about what we do and want to share information, ideas and skills with our extended woodworking community.
We promise to do our very best to provide you with endless opportunities in a stimulating and supportive community. We invite you to take your place at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking!

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