Pennsylvania Spice Box
Instructor: Ken Nuttle
9:00 am - 4:00 pm (day)
Maximum Class Size: 10

This exciting project course will introduce the student to period work on a small and detail-oriented scale. At the end of a busy week you will take away a traditional Pennsylvania Spice Box based on a Chester County design built in solid walnut with poplar as the secondary wood. Containing drawers hidden by a door, this dovetailed carcase will sit proudly in your home. While it could be placed in the kitchen to hold spices or in the dressing area to hold jewelry or other valuables, it will more likely wind up in the living room for all to see and admire - a testament to your growing skill in woodworking.

In this course students will learn a unique way to cut dovetails using the table saw and a trim router (but not using a router based dovetail jig), stopped dados, 'V' grooved dados, drawers with half lapped dovetails, delicate crown and bed moldings, and bracket feet. Installation of a hinged, slab door and lockset is included. Construction of a tombstone door and the inlaying of a slab door (see photographs) will be discussed.. This is a complete piece of furniture, on a scale appropriate for a one week course.

Instructor Ken Nuttle is a talented Virginia period furniture maker who trained under some of the finest local furniture makers and spent many years as a demonstrator and maker at the Hay Shop in Colonial Williamsburg.

Cost: $925 (including lunch and materials)

In order to register, please call us at 215-849-5174, or drop us an email and we will forward the registration materials.

This course has not been scheduled. Please contact Philadelphia Furniture Workshop if you are interested.