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Fee: Just donate a little something to the BARN building fund!

Saturday, July 9 from 10 am to 12 pm

No experience is necessary. 

If your spouse/significant other convinces you to buy a piece of slightly rickety furniture at the Rotary Auction, or if you succumb to your lust for rusty metal tools, bring your purchase to BARN's temporary center in Rolling Bay from 10 to noon on Saturday, July 9 for expert advice on turning your purchase into a family heirloom. 
If you bring a piece of furniture, Carol Fiedler Kawaguchi, a professional woodworker who specializes in restoration of antique furniture, can offer advice on how to address structural and cosmetic problems with your piece.
If it’s a hand plane, chisel or other hand tool, Dick Culp, a hand tool devotee and member of the Board at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, can show you how to sharpen and tune it to perform up to its full potential. There's no set fee for this — just make a donation to BARN's building fund. Registration on BARN’s web site is appreciated but you're also welcome to just drop by that day.

For additional help with your furniture repair project consider signing up for Carol's class, Repair or Restore Furniture, on two Saturdays, July 30 and Aug. 6, 9 am to noon. The class fee is $90 for BARN members and $108 for non-members. No woodworking experience is required. If you need additional time to complete your project or tune up your hand tools you can use the BARN woodshop during open studio hours — free for members and just a $10 drop-in fee for others.

INSTRUCTORS: Carol Fiedler Kawaguchi is a professional woodworker who specializes in restoration of antique furniture through her business, C-Saw, on Bainbridge Island. After earning a fine arts degree from Western Washington University, she worked in New Mexico as an apprentice ceramicist and then as an apprentice violin maker, which taught her a lot about fine woodworking and traditional finishes. She began designing and building custom furniture in the mid 1980s. Her interest in European, Early American and Asian antiques led her to focus on their restoration and repair.
A hand tool devotee, Dick Culp has taken many classes at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking and will be sharing what he's learned. He serves on the school's Board of Directors and was a director of Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop until it merged with BARN at the end of 2013.