Class meets once per week for four hours.
Open studio lab hours are offered during the week, evenings, and weekends. Multi-axis spindle turning, split turning, and turning in conjunction with processes off the lathe, including carving shaping, surface ornamentation, and joinery will be explored. Lectures, demonstrations, slide and video presentations average three of the four hours of class time. Increased student awareness of the design potential of this manufacturing technique. Improve technical hand skills Improve design understanding on special shapes and form possible and tooling and jigs necessary to achieve those shapes.