Traditional Enameling WS-222
514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512
Beginner’s Gilding WS-311
This workshop will cover the history of gilding, including water, oil, and non-traditional gilding. Students will exercise the ten-step process of water gilding to complete a project. They will also oil gild a pre-turned finial and learn how to gild straight lines with non-traditional gilding. In addition, demonstrations on re-cutting, patinization, and specialty gilding disciplines will be given by the instructor.
Topton, PA
Finishing Wood WS-312
Rebuilding WS-313
- This workshop will give students an understanding of:
- Finish and adhesive breakdowns due to environment
- Age and abuse factors
- How to clean material-bearing surfaces
- Pegged mortise and tenon joints
- Understanding joint degradation due to continued usage after a joint begins to fail
- Adhesives: what they are and how they work and fail
- Substrate (wood) expansion and contraction
- Petrification
- How properties of today’s wood differs from period material
- Hide glue
- Students will experience hand cutting dovetails, mortise and tenon, miter, and lap joints, adhering wood samples with various adhesives, splining a miter joint and making a bracket ogee foot.
Topton, PA
A one day course for beginners to intermediates wanting to understand the functionality and synchronization of 17th –Early 19th century time and strike British and American tall case movements. Through lecture, power points and demonstrations, participants will study the complete functionality of these mechanisms. This is not a repair course. It is an explanation of countwheel and rack striking. The following will be overviewed:
• All components and functions and their interaction with the time train
• Control of the strike train
• Hour wheel, snail and hour hand pipe
• The counting system
• Explanation of the strike train, locked, warning, strike release and running
• Need for a warning
• The half hour strike
• Avoiding problems when setting up a movement
• Repeat work
• Star wheel
• Passing strike
514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512
Veneer WS-314
- This workshop will cover:
- The cutting of veneer
- Wood species
- How to arrange grain and figure
- Various methods of adhering with adhesives
- Veneer making equipment, including the history of where modern day veneering began
- “Paris” types of veneer commercially available
- Cutting your own veneer
- Various methods of matching veneer
- Advantages of veneer
- Buying venues
- Hammer veneering
- Veneer repairs
- Vacuum bag veneering
- Coloring veneers
- Other materials other than wood used for veneering
- Students will experience hammer veneering, vacuum veneering, veneering columns, veneering carved surfaces, book matching, process of preparing adhered veneer for finish, backing veneer with paper, storing veneer, veneering a panel with cross-banding and a string inlay.
Topton, PA
Marquetry WS-315
Through this workshop students will:
-Learn the history, various styles and type of marquetry
-Understand the development of the marquetry technique through the centuries
-Discuss the materials (veneering precious stones, metals, adhesives) used in marquetry
-Explore and view demonstrations of cutting devices (jeweler’s saw, scroll saw, and the Chavalet)
-Students will create a marquetry panel, from conception of drawing to sand shading. Once the marquetry panel is completed by the end of the week, students will prepare marquetry panel surfaces to build a finish.
Topton, PA
Ornamentation WS-316
Students will learn how to create a variety of different clock ornamentation during this workshop including:
- Students will use the wood lathe to turn a finial
- Students will experience carving a flame
- Finial/sharpening will be demonstrated
- Students will carve a rosette for a broken-arch clock
- Students will gild the flame carved finial
- Students will experience latex casting of missing parts and/or components
- Cutting of missing glass will be demonstrated
- Cleaning, buffing lacquer of brass components and ornaments will be demonstrated
- Students will create a quarter column and capital (turned)
Topton, PA