Brian
Boggs' upcoming workshops
Please register by using the links associated
with the school or shop holding the class.
Hand
Planes and Hand Tools Workshop 2007
 The
Northwest Woodworking Studio
May
15, 2007
Lecture
and Demonstration with Brian Boggs
northwestwoodworking.com
Cost - $50 lecture fee
The
Northwest Woodworking Studio
1002 SE 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97214
Phone: (503) 284-1644
E- mail: nws_info@northwestwoodworking.com
In conjunction with the Hand Tools Show coming to Chehalem, Oregon
this Spring, our old friend Brian Boggs will be stopping by on Tuesday,
May 15th from 5 to 8 p.m. He'll demonstrate some steam bending and
other techniques he employs to create his extremely comfortable
and elegant chairs.
For those of
you who are not familiar with Brian's work, he's one of our nation's
top chairmakers. Hailing from Berea, Kentucky, he builds chairs
and tables, designs tools for Lie-Nielsen, and enjoys fishing whenever
he can fit it in. Besides building excellent furniture, of which
we have examples here at the Studio, Brian is also a supurb communicator.
He teaches the "Ladder Back Chair" workshop at the Studio
here in Portland once again next summer, 2008.
Contact us
to sign up for a lecture and demonstration which will shed some
light on the very particular challenges of chairmaking, as this
is sure to be a popular evening!
Chair-Building
Workshops 2007
North
Bennet Street School
June
25 - July 6, 2007
A two-week course, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Ladderback
Chair Making
http://www.nbss.org/
39
North Bennet Street Boston
Massachusetts 02113
Phone: (617) 227-0155
E-mail: workshop@nbss.org
Cost - $1,400.00 plus materials fee
In this two-week course, Brian Boggs will guide students through
the process of building one of his signature ladder back chairs.
His chair design and construction techniques improve upon similar
chairs that have been made in Appalachia for over 100 years. Students
in this class will have the opportunity to work with green wood
in building this two slat ladder back chair.
Students
will split the wood from the log, shape parts with drawknives and
spokeshaves using shave horses, turn the hickory rungs, steam bend
the curved maple parts. Brian will cover the appropriate tool use
in building this type of chair. This will include his methods of
sharpening the tools. Chair design will be discussed during this
course. Brian will demonstrate his methods of producing chairs in
his shop. He will have each student construct their own bending
form for the steam bent curved parts.
Woodworking
experience is required to be successful in this course. This course
is limited to 10 students. Please note: there will be class held
on July 4th.
What
folks say about Brian's workshops:
"I
am still on a high from the workshop! "
--Joe Tuohey,
Knoxville, Tennessee
"Brian,
I was at the seminar you gave to the Rochester Woodworker's Society.
It was one of the best seminars I have attended there. You have
a highly technical grasp of wood and all the surrounding influences
as well as the machining, etc. Your seminar was really great."
--
Ken Root, Black North Wicker
"Successful
chair design is part intuition, part creativity, and part plenty
of work. Learn how to think about chair design, ergonomics, utility,
comfort, and beauty as you build a model of your design. The thousands
of beautiful chairs Brian has made attest to his skill as a craftsman
and designer. Chair design makes you think about proportioning,
structure, engineering, joinery, and grace in a way no other piece
of furniture does. This will be a fabulous week as you work with
probably one of the best chair maker/designers in the country learning
to build your chair idea."
--
Northwest Woodworking Studio
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