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Taken off the website via a request from Jess in an email on 5/29.~tt

Get started on your woodturning adventure in this four-session class, designed to take you from small spindle projects to your first bowl. 

You will learn about woodturning safety, gouge techniques and how to use the tools with good body mechanics — all important to building a foundation to launch your turning skills.

You will begin with spindle-turning, where the wood spins between supports on both ends. You'll learn how to secure the wood and how to use a spindle roughing gouge, a spindle gouge and a parting tool. As your skills build, you will increase the precision of your turning technique by making a small project such as a honey dipper, finial, spinning top or goblet, with your own design elements. Then, assuming you're doing well on spindle turning, you'll learn the basics of bowl-turning by making one about 5 inches in diameter. 

Details:

• This class is for youth 14-18 years old.
• To register your youth, please put in the NAME field your first name then in parenthesis put the youth's first and last name (if different than yours).
• Please complete and return this minor permission form if BARN does not already have one on file for your child from a past class.
• Tuition assistance is available.  Click hereto apply. 
• BARN reserves the right to cancel this class in the case of low enrollment and will notify families of this decision one week prior to the start of the class.  A full refund will be given. 
• If you have any questions, please email BARN Program Manager at JessH@bainbridgebarn.org
• Wear close-toe shoes, avoid loose clothing and dangling jewelry, and tie back long hair.
  

Instructor: Jamie Straw has been turning wood for several years, working on both spindle and bowl projects, and has taught woodturning at BARN since July 2017. She also serves as coordinator of BARN’s woodturning classes.  She is past Vice President for Education and Training for the local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. Her focus is on helping students build skills progressively as they design and create their woodturning projects.