Make a New Lebanon Shaker Rocking Chair
with Doug Dale & Will Lerums
October 6-10, 2025
$1,140.00
$995 tuition + $145 material fee
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About This Workshop
Come back to Mount Lebanon in the 1870’s and imagine the bustling Shaker workshops turning out thousands of chairs and rocking chairs every year. Now imagine making your own at MASW in 2025! In this workshop students will discover the identifying characteristics of the Mount Lebanon rocking chair and how to repeatedly produce them with templates. Working hand-in-hand with instructors, students will shape, and steam bend the chair’s back slats. At the lathe, students will turn the front legs and spindles. With hand tools, students will mark and pound out perfectly sized mortises and fit the rockers. After final assembly and turning some mushroom finials for the arms, students will weave their own cane seat. Participants will leave with an iconic furniture piece and the skills and resources to produce more.
Key Points
- How to make templates and story sticks for reproduction
- Shaping and steam bending of components
- Turning and replicating spindles
- Joinery and assembly of turned spindles, back slats, and rockers
- How to cane a woven seat
Doug Dale
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Will Lerums
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$1,140.00
Make a New Lebanon Shaker Rocking Chair with Doug Dale & Will Lerums October 6-10, 2025
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