Peter Park

This class shows students a fun way of putting many flat, smaller pieces of wood together and building them into a large, organic, and free form. With this coopering-like special glue-up technique, each student achieves a large organic-shaped dinner-table size centerpiece bowl starting from a flat board of lumber instead of a big chunk of log. This class also provides the opportunity to learn how to use hand carving tools such as gouge, rasp, file, and scraper and power tools like angle grinder, die grinder, jointer, circular saw, and band saw safely and properly.

In this workshop, students use power carving and hand carving tools to create unique, sculptural stools out of wood. Demonstrations include using simple joinery and glue-up techniques to build up stool structures and safe use of power and hand tools such as angle grinders, rasps, spokeshaves, and carving gouges. Students explore ergonomic shapes for stool structures and the various tools needed to achieve exciting surface textures on wood.