Turning One of a Kind Decorative Boxes
with Jennifer Shirley
August 4-8, 2025
$995.00
$60 material fee payable to Jennifer
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About This Workshop
Are you ready to spend a fun week making some beautiful turned boxes? In this class, Jennifer will share with students the simple techniques she uses to make a variety of different boxes and containers with decorative lids. Jennifer will demonstrate how to use hammered copper to make a lid with a finial. Participants will make an acorn box and a box with a fitted lid and use stencils, dyes, wood burners, and texturing tools to make each box a one-of-a-kind treasure to keep or to give as gifts. Some woodturning experience and understanding how to sharpen your tools is helpful for this jam-packed, fast paced week of fun and creativity!
Key Points
- Simple fitted lid box making techniques and tools
- Methods to hold and secure work in jamb chucks
- How to hammer and shape copper
- How to solder copper
- How to insert an element into the lid of your boxes
- Using stencils to embellish your boxes and lids
- Introduction to woodburning
- Tools and techniques for texturing wood
Jennifer Shirley
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