Greenwood Chairmaking with Brian Boggs

Introduction to Greenwood Chairmaking with Brian Boggs
One-week Comprehensive
June 22-26, 2009
Asheville, NC

Greenwood chairmaking offers an enjoyable entry into techniques of steam bending, turning, hand shaping, weaving, and hand tool mastery. In this class you will have fun learning how to design for comfort and to develop the support tooling to build fine chairs with precision.

Chairmaking is often thought of as one of the more challenging arenas of furniture making. While I cannot deny the demands of the craft, this class can do a lot to teach you how to approach chairmaking, using a process broken down into manageable steps.

It is what you learn in class rather than the product you go home with that has the greatest value. During this class, you will create a chairmaking manual that will guide your future chair projects at home.

Such a manual has been essential to managing quality control and efficiency in my own shop and I think you will find it a highly valuable tool for any woodworking project you hope to repeat. Even if you change the design considerably the next time, the basic framework of how you went through the process last time will help you hold on to the lessons you learned in earlier efforts. Keeping a record of how you work will greatly help you develop your processes and skills as a woodworker.

You will go home with an assembled chair, the structure of a process manual, and very likely a few new friends. Come join us!

"Brian is not only an exceptionally talented and visionary chair builder, he is a passionate teacher who wants each and every student to understand the concepts and intricacies of building chairs. He goes beyond teaching you how to make a single specific style, instead he gives you the tools to build the chair of your own." -- Bob Leavitt

Class is limited to five students!

For more information, please email brian@brianboggschairs.com or call 828.398.9701.