Decorative Details with Tim Coleman 27-2 

Prerequisites: Intro to Guild Safety and Core Tools Certification 

A way of distinguishing the work we do is to add embellishment in some form. This can involve relief carving, pyrography, gilding and many other techniques. Tim Coleman has developed a signature style involving the use of hand made steel stamps, piercing and V carving tools to enhance his work.

The three-day session will cover a variety of decorative details which students will experiment with on sample boards. These will include using steel stamps and vee carving tools to create patterns and textures, coloring carved and stamped patterns with acrylic paint, grain line carving, carving through veneer to a contrasting substrate, overlay techniques with thick veneer and pierce-carved work. 

We will be using hand tools and an occasional major machine tool in the Studio.

What You'll Learn:

·         Practical techniques for adding decorative details 

·         Innovative approaches to integrate embellishment into your projects

·         Tim's insight plus 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. We'll provide 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.