We’re taking baby steps here. We’re in a borrowed space until the first of the year. Until then we want to maximize use of our facilities and send a clear message that there is a need for the services that we provide.
We’ve toyed with providing our facilities to our students for their own use. It’s the next ogicl step after a class to allow students to explore on their own. It’s a rare student that leaves a luthiery class and goes home to their well stocked luthier ready woodshop. When folks take a letterpress class, they want to have an opportunity to spend hours exploring on their own.
We want to be able to provide for this and plan to, in a small way, during the next few months.
Here’s the deal…
On selected Saturday mornings we will open the woodshop from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm. I’ll post these dates as soon as they are determined.
There are two or three restrictions to this service:
- Folks attending open studio must have taken a Folk School class or go through an orientation of safety, tools, policies and techniques.
- Participants will need to read and complete a safety checklist and liability waiver. We will keep these on file.
- Participants must be member of the Folk School. We can take care of that when you arrive.
- Folks that use the studio are encouraged to make a reservation so that we can have appropriate molds, jigs, fixtures or steam /heat generators/side benders in place. With enough lead time we will be able to provide prepared materials for instrument building, carving projects and shaker boxes.
There will be someone supervising the shop during open studio. Their role is to supervise, collect fees, check paperwork and advise. They are not there to instruct.
Most of our large tools are borrowed or donated. They are adequate for our purposes. They are not the newest or highest quality. We have what we have.
If this works out (and it will) we will explore offering open studios for letterpress and bookarts.
Love those ogicl steps