Advanced Joinery 201
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The perfect follow-on to Practical Woodworking
101
This is a strictly
invitational course offering at the Lohr School of Woodworking.
The course is limited to just 8 alumni of the Practical
Woodworking course.
Tuition will be $1,250 plus an
additional lumber fee*
Greetings to alumni of the
J.D.Lohr School of Woodworking!
Rob, Eoin and I are pleased to announce our new
Advanced Joinery 201 woodworking course, which will commence in pilot form in 2010, and will
run in addition to our original Practical Woodworking 101. Although many of you
won’t know my current staff, Rob and Eoin, who have now been with me for 4 and
3 years respectively, we have spent much of the last year planning, preparing
and looking forward to our latest offering. We believe this course is the
perfect follow up to your first experience here of Practical Woodworking 101.
However, unlike that course, where the hall table project was really the by-product of the course, designed only to enable you to put into practice the important skills and techniques that were taught, our Advanced Joinery course is by contrast a project-oriented course, where constructing the project is the whole point, and ultimate goal of the course. Along the way, you’ll learn how to undertake some pretty complex joinery techniques that we use day-in and day-out in the fabrication of our custom furniture. We have chosen one of my most popular custom-ordered pieces, the walnut and cherry accessory table as the course project. This piece has all the elements of design and fabrication that are specific to what I refer to as my ‘Refined Arts and Crafts’ style of furniture making. You will note from the website that this accessory table in its finished form retails at $3,450. By attending the course, not only are you learning exactly the techniques we use to create such an exquisitely detailed piece, but you will be taking a significant piece of furniture home at the course's end at 40% of it's value, including the tuition. In addition you will be able to proudly sign your own name to the piece in place of my own. There are no short-cuts, changes or amendments to the design - this is exactly the same piece in every respect that is sold to my clients. Of course, you’ll have to finish it yourself, but we’ll show you exactly what we do.
Methodology
Successful completion of the Practical Woodworking 101 course is a strict
pre-requisite for enrollment in this Advanced Joinery course, as we will not
have time to re-cover ground from the first course. We will have a very short
and quick review of safety, rough milling, stock preparation and squaring
principles, but this course is geared towards picking up where we left off on
the last day of your experience in your first course with us, Practical
Woodworking 101.
Please note: If you are at all ill at ease with remembering what was covered in the first Practical Woodworking course or if you have not kept in practice to apply those basic principles we carefully taught you, you are strongly and respectfully advised to consider repeating the first Practical Woodworking 101 course to bring you full back up to speed before embarking on this next higher level course. It should be pointed out that it is not at all unusual for Practical Woodworking students to repeat that same course as a refresher. We have had a number of alumni repeat the Practical Woodworking course anywhere from 2 to 8 years after previously completing the original course even though it remains basically the same in content as it has always been. The most frequent comment heard from all repeaters of the first course has been just how much their individual skill levels have improved as a result of completing our first level intensive a second time around. If you check current availability, you may find a bench position still open for the first course in our current 2010 lineup. Hey, I understand many of you don't do woodworking as often as you would have liked since completing my Practical Woodworking Course. That said however, for goodness sake if you have not yet purchased or at least have access to your basic set of machine tools you really don't belong in this Advanced Joinery course so if you are indeed truly interested, do yourself a huge favor and repeat the Practical Woodworking 101 course first. Find details on how to re-enroll in PW-101 by clicking on the Lohr Woodworking School tab on the menu at the top and/or bottom of this page if you feel you are not quite prepared to take this higher level course. That first course is a darn good course and for many it would be very appropriate to repeat it. We also don't require Alumni to go through the regular registration day, you get first dibs on anything that is to be scheduled in advance of it being offered. .
Our Advanced
Joinery Course Syllabus
Please take the time to study the full details of our carefully planned
Advanced Joinery course syllabus by clicking
here
Tuition and Lumber Fees
This Advanced Joinery course will be limited to just 8 students per class
and run for 6 consecutive days running 8 hours/day with additional evening
assignments on at least two nights of the course. Basic
tuition will be $1,250 for the course + an additional lumber fee. As
we will be using high-end hardwood in the course, there will be an
additional lumber fee for which there are specific options that you must study
and consider in advance of the course. For complete details regarding lumber
fees and selection, by clicking here.
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