Learn from Dave
Our upcoming courses are listed below. All courses are two or three day immersions, held in our Charlottesville studio for between 2 and 4 students. All courses include materials.
Individual instruction at any level can also be arranged - please contact us for details.
Double Bevel Veneering
November 5-6,2022
March 4-5, 2023
We will make a tray/rectangular table top with a flower and a hummingbird, cut using double bevel marquetry on a power scroll saw.
This technique is more complex than the other two, but allows much finer control and yields a more painterly picture.
Cost: $350 including materials and basic tools
This course will be held in the studio in Charlottesville, 8:30am to 5pm on both days.
For more information or to sign up, send us your name and email below and we'll be in touch with details.
or call us at at (703) 716-2939
Pictorial
Marquetry Using a Scroll Saw
July 23-24, 2022
October 8-9, 2022
January 28-29, 2023
This course teaches packet-cut (Boulle) marquetry, using the European method on a scroll saw. Students will make 2 different floral marquetry pictures.
This method is less complex than the double bevel class and yields multiple copies of the same picture. The results are more graphic arts than painterly. Most of my work is done this way.
Cost: $325 including materials and basic tools
This course will be held in the studio in Charlottesville, 8:30am to 5pm on both days.
For more information or to sign up, send us your name and email below and we'll be in touch with details.
or call us at at (703) 716-2939
Geometric Marquetry Box with Lid
December 3-4, 2022
February 11-12, 2023
This course will have students construct a box from provided parts, and cutting and assembling a detailed Prairie-inspired marquetry pattern for the box lid.
Cost: $350 including materials and basic tools
This course will be held in the studio in Charlottesville, 8:30am to 5pm on both days.
Radial Veneering - Demilune Table Class
October 16-22, 2022
This is a combined veneering, marquetry and furniture making class for intermediate or advanced woodworkers. We will make the entire table in seven action-packed days. The major components of the class, in completion order:
Draw the demilune top to provide a template for construction
Make a solid edge mdf substrate for the top with the edge suitable for being visible
Make a radial sunburst and apply it to a substrate
Trim the sunburst then install a contrasting radial edge banding
Make a semicircular fan inlay and set it into the top
Make a bricklaid semicircular table skirt
Veneer the table skirt
Cut joinery to attach the legs to the skirt
Attach the top to the table base
Cockbead the completed table skirt
Please talk to me before signing up for the class. This requires some experience and background to complete in seven days.
Cost: $1100 including materials and basic tools
This course will be held in the studio in Charlottesville, 8:30am to 5pm on each day.
For more information or to sign up, send us your name and email below and we'll be in touch with details.
or call us at at (703) 716-2939