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Get an introduction to safe handling and use of carving knives and go home with a small carving made from basswood.

The instructor will bring practice wood and walk you through how to make specific kinds of cuts. Then he'll hand out pre-cut blanks and "go-bys," which are completed carvings that you can use as a guide as you transform your own piece of wood into something similar.

This class is open to both beginning carvers and those who already have some carving experience. Iller teaches many carving classes at BARN. Projects vary, so even if you've taken a class from him before, the project at this class is almost certain to be something new.

Details:

• Ages 12+ are welcome.
  

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• Wear closed-toe shoes.
• BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition Assistance is available - click here to fill out the simple application before registering for a class. For those who might need physical assistance, please learn about BARN's Companion Program here.

Instructor: 
As a third-generation woodworker, Jeff Iller learned about woodworking tools and knives early on. By high school, he was winning ribbons with his wood carvings at his hometown fair. Around 1996 Jeff found room for a shop and he has carved ever since. He’ll carve most anything, but prefers to innovate with the working tools to carve multiple parts inside one piece of wood and to make physically detailed and accurate carvings of women's faces. Carvings on the entry sign to the BARN Woodworking Studio shows the quality of his work.

Iller says he was taught early on that he could make anything from wood. He is still trying to prove that statement wrong.