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Saturday, October 15 from 9 am to 11 am

Materials Fee: $5 (payable at the beginning of class)

Carve a Wooden Spoon is part of an introductory series of classes that provide beginning carvers with a good foundation for the kinds of carving cuts that can be made, including push, stop and draw cuts. As with any sharp hand tools, this class will cover the safe handling and application of carving knives. The instructor will discuss the basic concepts of carving using the spoon as a model to appreciate large scale to small scale carving with grain changes, desired curvatures, and hollowing techniques to achieve the handle and bowl results in mind. Students will begin a project to carve a wooden spoon to practice the techniques and approaches learned in class. Students may be allowed limited additional time to carve after class at the instructor’s discretion.

Open to ages 8 - adult

Materials and tools will be provided by the instructor. 

Instructor: As a third generation woodworker Jeff Iller learned about woodworking tools and knives early on. By high school Jeff won ribbons with his wood carvings at his hometown fair. Around 1996 Jeff found room for a shop and he has carved ever since. He’ll carve most anything, but prefers to innovate with the working tools to carve multiple parts inside of one piece of wood and to make physically detailed and accurate carvings of women's faces.
He was taught early on that he could make anything from wood and he is still trying to prove that statement wrong.