Students will start by forging a simple article to be decorated with wire inlay - a medieval key or Viking style sword hilt.
While the scale is being pickled from the forging, tools will be forged for chasing the grooves that receive the wire.
Demonstrations will show:
-Flush wire inlay
-Raised wire inlay
-Twisted wire inlay
-Inlaying of dots
After practicing a bit on scrap steel students will decorate their forgings.
Pioneers used tinware because it was inexpensive and portable, and settlers liked it because it was shiny and clean
looking.
In this class students will have the opportunity to make a variety of traditional items such as cups,
candleholders and cookie cutters using tinplate shaped with stakes and mallets.
Skills learned include cutting a pattern, wiring an edge, setting down a seam and soldering.
Class cost: $85.00. Limit of 10 students. Class 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Please bring a sack lunch.
Materials fee: $30.00.
Extra tin will be available.
Make a Punched Tin Lantern..Lanterns of this design are sometimes called "candle carriers."
They were used to give light outside while protecting the candle from the wind.. This style lantern was used in many countries, and appears in nautical
museums as well as farm museums.
Students will start with a flat sheet of tinplate, trace and cut out a pattern, punch holes in a decorative design, bend and assemble pieces to make a
traditional "barn" lantern. (lantern measures approximately 12" tall by 6" diameter.)
Students need to bring leather work gloves. Tools will be provided, however students are welcome to bring their own shears, mallets, etc if you wish.
You will each leave with a tin lantern.
Material cost is $25.00 and class fee is $150.00, for this 2-day class. Make checks payable to Tunnel Mill Crafts.
Check out Tom & Kitty Latane's website, www.spaco.org/latane/TCLatane.htm
It's the little things - like a tasty, homemade cookie - that make life so sweet. It's the
tools you use to make those cookies that become cherished keepsakes, holding countless
tasty memories.
In this full-day class, learn to make your own one-of-a-kind tin cookie
cutters.
In the morning, students will learn to cut, shape, and punch simple decorations in
preparation for making their own cookie cutters in the afternoon.
Catherine Latane' has
worked with tin for over 30 years and her cookie cutters have been displayed on the
White House Christmas tree.
Materials: $15
Ages 12+
This class is part of the North House Folk School's "Spring Gathering" which will be held at Hollow Golf Course, W12166 820th Ave, River Falls,
WI 54022
Pre-registration is required!
** Questions? Please call 218-387-9762 or info@northhouse.org
This class will be the first of three sessions of instruction covering the construction of a coffee mill similar to the one the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths will make at the 2014 ABANA conference. In the first session the students will forge the conical steel burrs and start filing the teeth (which will be completed at home). The rest of the session will be spent forming the upper hopper for receiving the beans and the burr housing. These forms will be constructed out of heavy sheet brazed in the forge. Brackets to support the hopper and center the crank shaft will be forged and riveted to the vessel.
In the second session the steel burrs will be case hardened and the drawer for the grounds will be formed along with its housing. The lower support for the central shaft will be forged along with the parts for adjusting the coarseness of the grind. Decorative embellishments will be demonstrated including swaging moldings, chasing the knob, and raising beads in the sheet metal surface with a fine fuller.
The last session will cover forging the columns that join the parts , the feet , and the crank . The columns may be round, square, hexagonal, or octagonal, twisted or straight. Assembly will be with threaded tenons and nuts, permanently peined tenons and wedges.
Dates for the second and third classes, as well as costs and other details will be provided shortly.