Make a Three-Legged Stool

Join Brooklyn-based professional wood turner and furniture maker Chuck Van Dyck to make your very own three-legged stool using a lathe. In this one-day beginner class, you'll start by designing your stool, laying out the joinery for leg placement using a compass; making and using a story stick for identical legs; and deciding on and drilling an angle using an easily-made jig.

Then you'll learn how to set up your project by safely mounting workpieces between centers, as well as on a screw chuck. Chuck will cover safe sharpening practices and what to avoid.  He will share best practices for turning the parts of the stool, from tapered legs with a perfectly sized tenon between centers to the seat, where you will create a unique profile that can only be done on the lathe.

Finally, you'll learn some joinery: sawing tenons for wedges; riving strong wedges with a chisel and bench hook, or creating a bandsaw jig for quick wedges; grain alignment for long-lasting joints; and gluing and wedging a round mortise and tenon joint to fit everything together. You'll leave class with a completed stool that is ready for you to apply your choice of finish at home.

Date: Sat., May 17, 9 AM - 5 PM
Instructor: Chuck Van Dyck
Class size (max.): 6
Attendance (min.): 4*
Skill level: basic
Prerequisites: none

Registration
Household Member & Above: $200**
Individual Member: $210**
General Public: $220
Register By: May 4

Materials: $40 (included at checkout)

*Classes that do not meet the minimum attendance number may be cancelled or rescheduled. If so, you will receive a full refund, or class credit, regardless of the cancellation date.

**We encourage you to become a member (for as little as $30/year) to receive discounted class tuition. You must be a current member on the date of registering to receive your discount. Please login to activate your member discount. Sign up to be a member here, or call 845-338-0071.

Instructor: Chuck Van Dyck is a Brooklyn-based professional wood turner and furniture maker. He creates pieces that are familiar, yet still unique, hoping for them to exist peacefully in a space in a beautifully utilitarian way. One year’s stool may be the next year’s side table, and a vase can house any number of items. Being made of wood, each item is inherently unique – that is the beauty of working with wood. He started his journey into craft after spending a few years in the fashion photography world. As a set carpenter and working in the prop department, he eventually felt the need to create more enduring objects. See his work at www.currentflowwoodwork.com.