Creating Exceptional Furniture: Learning to Connect the Dots

with Stephen Proctor

July 7-11, 2025

$1,065.00

$995 tuition + $70 material fee

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About This Workshop

Woodworkers require the ability to create true and elegant curves, both simple and compound. These may be for the use of legs, or for shaping an edge. Beginning with simple exercises, this class will explore the process required to arrive at shapes, forms, and sections in a controlled and non-intuitive manner. Students will begin with the application of a few straight lines to achieve some compound curves, shapes, and curls. Grinders, rasps, spokeshaves, planes, and scrapers will be demonstrated to show how each may be used to achieve the utmost accuracy and create the truest of forms. Through a series of more complex exercises, the class will explore many and varied shapes. These may include transitions from fat to thin, round to square, spirals, twists, and even animalistic forms. All the sample pieces and the thought process of connecting the dots will provide a design source for future projects. Stephen has taught this class for over a decade, and if you want to learn how to create motion without steam, heat or glue, then this is the class that will take your work to a completely different place.

Key Points

  • Learn to shape wood with a spokeshave
  • Learn how to draw complex lines and then connect them
  • Develop compound shapes
  • Tool control
  • Using rasps and planes to create curved surfaces
  • Give your work continuity

Stephen Proctor

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$1,065.00

Creating Exceptional Furniture: Learning to Connect the Dots with Stephen Proctor July 7-11, 2025

Registration begins

Monday December 2, 2024

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