Duration: 1 hour
Description: Watch the shavings and wood chips fly as you learn how things can be created from a tree with no electricity! This program will show you many of the tools used by early carpenters and joiners and familiarize you with the joints commonly used. Life Lesson: Students will learn the value of choosing the right tool for the job and that you really can do good work while being unplugged from electricity! Interactive Elements: Students will get to see original 18th and 19th century tools, and handle sample joints and a replica sash (window). Want to tailor your historical experience?
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Duration: 2 hours
Description: This immersive program allows students to actually use the most commonly used joiner's tool - the hand plane! (With supervision of course.) They will work together to learn the basic skill of planing and truing a rough-cut board using only traditional hand planes. Life Lesson: Students will learn the value of patience and respect for tools. Interactive Elements: Students will actually get to use antique tools and participate in hand planing a board. ***Please note: This program is geared towards students that are at least ten years old.*** |
The following options can be added or substituted to customize your program. Plan to add a half-hour to your program for each element added. Please note there is an added cost of $30 per additional element.
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Duration: 2 hours
Description: This immersive program allows participants to actually use some antique joiner's tools such as a saw, mortising gauge, and chisel! They will work create joints commonly used in eighteenth-century joinery. Life Lesson: Learn the value of quality craftsmanship and respect for tools. Interactive Elements: Participants will actually get to use antique tools to create real joints. Chose between mortise and tenon or the elegant dovetail joint. |
The following options can be added or substituted to customize your program. Plan to add a half-hour to your program for each element added. Please note there is an added cost of $30 per additional element.
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