Build an 18th-century Southern Table with Jerome Bias
Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:00 AM - Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:00 PM EST
Lost Art Press, 41011
Description
Build an 18th-century “table” with Jerome Bias. But is it a table? A hunt board? A buffet? No – it is properly called a “slab!” This Southern form hails from Georgia, and was made to hold dishes and serving platters. The walnut original (currently in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Delaware) was made of walnut sometime between 1775-1800. It is 42" tall, 54" long and 22” wide, and has legs that look like they were made for dancing.
In class you will learn:
You'll learn many hand-tool skills, including how to:
- Use marking gauges and mortise gauges
- Lay out and chop mortises
- Saw to a line
- Lay out and cut tenons
- Use a fretsaw/coping/bow saw
- Drawbore mortise-and-tenon joints
- Rive pegs
- Edge-join boards
- Glue up a tabletop
- Smooth plane a surface
- Attaching a tabletop with pegs
- Use moulding planes
- And more!
Cost
This class requires long hours and will make you tired (but happy at
the end of the day). Because of the nature of this class, we bring in
lunch every day for students (included in the class fee). The materials costs varies, depending on your wood choice (see below).
Cost: $1,250, plus a materials fee of: $500 for black walnut or $300 for black cherry. You will be charged the class fee at registration; we'll send an for the materials fee, based on your wood choice. (We'll be in touch with students via email to determine who wants what.)
Cancellations will be accepted up until four weeks before the class for a full refund. If a cancellation occurs within four weeks prior to the class date, a refund will be issued only if the spot can be filled.
For information on Covington, including where to stay and where to eat, click here.
If the class sells out, we recommend signing up for the waitlist – we almost always have to fill at least one space.
Tools for the Table
An important note on tools: When you arrive, your tools should be sharp and ready to go. There won’t be time to restore vintage tools or set up new tools in this class (there are other great classes for those activities). And bring what you have – we have some tools to lend, as needed.
Marking knife (Ideally, one that has one flat face, but any will do)
Mortise Gauge
Try Square or 6” Machinist square
Crosscut carcass saw
Crosscut panel saw
Rip tenon saw
Rip panel saw
Mortising mallet
Chisel mallet
1/4" or 5/16” Mortising Chisel (I prefer an English mortising chisel)
5/16” Chisel
1” Chisel
2“ chisel (optional)
Panel gauge
3’ straightedge (optional)
Brace and 1/2" bit
Bench hook that can be chopped on
Drawbore pins (optional) – drawbores will be 1/2" Diameter
Folding rule
Jack plane
Fore plane
Smoothing plane
Hammer
3/16” Beading plane
Fret/coping/bow saw
Rasp (9 or 11 grain)
Hammer
3/16” Beading plane
Block plane (optional)
Joiner plane (optional)
Scrub plane (optional)
Location
Lost Art Press, 41011