Children’s Play Furniture

Class # SPI-614

Children’s Play Furniture

Learn Plasticizing wood with a steam retort! You will acquire the knowledge to build and operate one of these steam boxes later at your shop! Enjoy Sixteen lab hours of woodworking experience. Acquire all the necessary skills to safely plasticize (bend) wood safely. You will learn what wood characteristics and species are best for bending wood. This historical period style sled will amaze your friends and colleagues with the bent wood runners and back. Use these skills then to build your own steam retort (box) and bend many items.

working together on bending wood in a frame

Class Overview:
Steaming and Bending Wood to Create a Traditional Victorian Period All Wooden Cherry and Oak Sled

The following are specific woodworking technologies presented.

Create patterns for various sled pieces
Identify straight grain cherry lumber to manufacture into wood slats
Produce desired thickness and widths of species to plasticize slate
Fabricate with a bandsaw slat arcs from patterns
Ascertain how to operate a steamer to produce bendable wood
Learn techniques in bending wood with a mold and clamps
Discover manufacturing techniques for sled ribs

Age Restrictions
Class for AGES 18 and UP or School’s Permission

Certifications
A certificate is awarded upon class completion

Prerequisites

SPI-600 or with consent of the instructor.
NO materials or tools needed.

Class Time and Information
The class takes sixteen hours in eight hour blocks of time. Days and times may be altered depending on the circumstances.

Course #	Course Title	Tuition	Lab Fee	Material Fee	Total	Hours
SPI-614	Children's Play Furniture	$825	$200	$97	$1122	16

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Children’s Play Furniture

Children’s Play Furniture

Class Overview:Steaming and Bending Wood to Create a Traditional Victorian Period All Wooden Cherry and Oak Sled

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Class Overview:
Steaming and Bending Wood to Create a Traditional Victorian Period All Wooden Cherry and Oak Sled