Mentoring

Mentoring

Note: You must be a member of the Guild to be eligible for mentoring classes.

Are you an intermediate or beginner woodworker with an itch to raise your
woodworking skills a notch or two? Do you have a special project in mind but
are just a bit uneasy about getting underway? Looking for tips to save time
and effort plus get better results?

Here’s what you need to do: join a Guild mentored group now. It’s the way to
go for all of the above, with others at your skill level, and, best of all, at
no cost (except for materials).

To sign up or find out more, contact Bill Keener (967-9669 or wgkwood@aol.com).

Education Center scheduling:

See our Shop Schedule for scheduled mentoring, and any tool use restrictions
that may accompany these classes.

Some examples of courses offered:

Bench Making
Lathe
Pen Turning
Raised Panel Doors
Hand Tool
Chair Making
Table Top Making
Table Making
Table Saw Instruction
Router Table Instruction
Jointer/Planer Instruction
Dovetail Jig Instruction
Hand Cut Dovetails
Pocket Hole Jig Instruction
Highboy Class

Need help?

Got a question or stumped by a woodworking technique? Got an eye on that new
tool, but would like some advice? Contact a Guild Mentor

Workbench class - January 2008

There are 11 guild members taking this bench class. One bench is being built as a class project. Once completed, the bench will be used in the Guild Education Center. Several of the class attendees are making personal benches, using the skills they learned. At least four students are making their own bench.

Bo's Bench

Well, you've been seeing them multiply around the Education Center. Now
they are starting to appear in member's shops, as is the case with the one
pictured below, which was completed by Ron Critser.

As most of us know, Guild member Bo Hurley has been conducting mentoring
sessions on building a workbench to be used with hand tools.

Ron states that these workbenches would not have been possible without
Bo's patience and dedication of time and energy, and that he (Ron) was
privileged to have been one of the members of Bo's class.

Ron's is 100 inches in length (including a "closed" end vise) and 26 inches
wide. It weighs in the range of 300 plus pounds (keeps thieves from stealing
it away during the night). The top of the bench is "ambrosia maple" trimmed
with walnut. The end vise is a composite of oak, maple, and walnut, and has
ten separate pieces in its construction. Appropriately named the "complex
piece".

Here are some pictures of Ron's workbench:

Bo Hurley conducting Woodworking Techniques Past & Present

Sewing center mentoring project pictures

Kitchen cabinet mentoring project pictures

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