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Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.
Traditional north European woodworking carpenters axe. Laminated steel. Turpentine, beeswax and linseedoil mixture for the steel as the treatment for anti rust. 3 1/2" faxe. Rockwell 60 (HRC). Linseedoiled and beeswaxed 18" elm wood handle.
Available to order: neemantools@gmail.com
The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm.
The skills needed to build boats are the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.
The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".
The first class taught is Basic Skills for Boatbuilders. Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. Basic lathe work is taught. The project photographed here is a small finger-jointed box, built by one of the students to fit in his dovetailed tool box.
The second class taught is drafting, in which students learn to read the lines plan of a boat, draft a set of lines from the table of offsets, and draft and make a half-model.
The third class taught is Lofting. Working in pairs, students learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor using the table of offsets as a starting point.
The fourth class is Skiff Building. Working together as a team, the quarter culminates in December as students work together in their section to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.