Rob's line of instructional DVDs includes such titles as: The Wood-Hinge Box, Mastering the Dovetail Saw, Hand-Cut Mortise and Tenon, The Alan Peters Approach, Drawer Making - the Professional Approach, Hand-Cut Dovetails, Advanced Hand-Cut Dovetails, Hand Planing and Sharpening, and Rough to Ready. Rob Cosman is your authorized dealer of top-quality Auriou rasps and rifflers, as well as his own line of RC Jigs. He's also your authorized Canadian dealer for Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Canada.
 

Training the Hand
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This intensive one-week course will focus on developing proficiency with woodworking hand tools. Beginning with the sharpening and honing of planes, chisels and saws, Rob will teach how to use hand planes and how they can be a finishing option to sanding.

Rob will teach how to use winding sticks, scrub plane, jointer and smoother to dimension lumber from rough sawn to flat, smooth and square on six sides.



 

Hand tools offer the finishing touch especially with exposed joinery. Dovetails, through, half-blind, mitered edge and hounds tooth, mortise and tennon both blind and thorough wedged, will be taught and practiced. In addition to learning to properly execute the joints, Rob will teach practical application as well.


  Since hand woodwork requires properly tuned, sharpened and fettled hand tools, students will want to bring their own tools to work with. Limit 12 students per class.

Calgary

June 30 - July 4, 2008 (approx. 65 hrs)
July 21 - 25, 2008 (approx. 65 hrs)
August 4 - 8, 2008 (approx. 65 hrs)


 

Level: Beginner through advanced

Class Size: 12
Fee: $995.00

S.A.I.T. [Southern Alberta Institute of Technology] Calgary, Alberta

 

 

This is a great example of what can be accomplished in the Training the Hand Workshop.

Half Blind Dovetail Joints by: Kyle, Gary, Mike and Rob.

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