Lumber Core and Veneering with Tim Coleman 27-1 

Prerequisites: Intro to Guild Safety, Core Tools Certification and  Router certification.

This four-day session will be a comprehensive veneer and substrate workshop. Each student will create a sample panel by sawing veneer at the bandsaw, thicknessing the veneer at the drum sander and creating lumber core with edge banding and face veneer. We’ll also cover other veneer substrates including veneering on solid wood. We will also learn marquetry and parquetry using sawn veneer. All major power tools will be used in the studio.

The process of creating lumber core is an age-old technique that takes common, inexpensive material and layers shop sawn veneer on top to create a  substrate of any desired thickness. The panel can be face veneered with any species and the resulting panel is more stable and flatter than conventional, plywood or MDF. The cabinet in the photograph was made using this technique.

We will be using all major machine tools in the Studio plus hand tools.

What You'll Learn:

• Essential and practical lumber core and veneering knowledge
• Innovative approaches to integrate organic curves into your projects 
• Tim's insight plus insider tips and tricks into design and problem- solving approaches    

Materials will be provided.

Tools, Equipment or Materials needed: PPE (ear, eye and breathing). A list of common tools we will be using will be provided to registrants ahead of the workshop. 

Lunch will not be provided, however, there will be a 45 minute lunch break. Students should pack a lunch or consider several options for grabbing something to eat within walking distance.

About Tim Coleman:

Tim Coleman has been creating custom furniture in his rural Massachusetts studio since 1989 after a year-long apprenticeship in Seattle and two years of study with James Krenov at the College of the Redwoods. Tim’s technically demanding, sculptural furniture is exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US. He is renowned for his embellished surfaces featuring patterns and textures using marquetry, low relief carving, embossing with steel stamps and parquetry.  Along with creating his award-winning furniture, Tim is a sought-after teacher and writer and is often featured in print and video in Fine Woodworking and other magazines. His most recent project with Fine Woodworking is a sixteen-part video series which documents the creation of one of his signature marquetry cabinets.