HANDS-ON CLASS TICKETS
You can get a free day to the symposium with each session of classes you sign up for. If you sign up for two classes, both days of the symposium are free.
The following classes are now available for sign-up. Please visit the instructor’s individual websites for additional information about them and to see the type of work that they do. Emiliano Achaval and Pat Carroll are both very accomplished turners, excellent instructors, and a variety of topics have been selected with something that will hopefully appeal to everyone. Please note that the exact topics taught may change depending upon the speed and interest of class participants and the availability of material. The currently planned areas to be covered are:
- March 27-29: Beginning/Intermediate Skill Building with Emiliano Achaval. Emiliano will cover Hawaiian Calabash bowl making, including the history and different types of calabash bowls. Calabash form will be discussed, along with an emphasis on proper tool techniques using both the Ellsworth and Batty 40/40 grinds. The patching of bowls using pewe and poho patches as well as huini pegs will also be covered. As time permits, the turning of natural edge bowls using green birch will be covered on the final day of class.
- March 30-31: Intermediate/Advanced Master Class with Emiliano Achaval. Emiliano will cover Hawaiian Calabash bowl making, including the history and different types of calabash bowls. Calabash form will be discussed, along with an emphasis on proper tool techniques using both the Ellsworth and Batty 40/40 grinds.Participants will turn as many as three calabash bowl shapes as time allows. In the second part of this two day class, Emiliano will cover thread chasing and participants will spend much of the day practicing thread chasing with 16 TPI thread chasing tools. Threading inserts will also be covered.
- April 3-5: Intermediate/Advanced Master Class with Pat Carroll. Pat will cover a variety of bowl turning, spindle turning, and carving topics as class participants make a beaded trinket box with finial, a square box with finial, and a carved pot with legs. As time permits, texturing and coloring will also be included.
- April 6-7: Beginning/Intermediate Skill Building with Pat Carroll. Pat will cover both bowl turning and spindle turning topics as participants make a birch bowl with copper stitching and a lidded bowl with finial. As time permits, texturing and coloring will also be included.