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Furniture School at the North Bennet Street School
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Furniture School at the North Bennet Street School
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" Alex how many students are enrolled in the cabinet and furniture making course here it's somewhere between 35 and forty. And everybody is involved in making a project in this particular part of the room right yes this is the upper bench area and you can see. See there's some chair work going on here Gus is shipping them back post. This of the chair that you see in the drawing behind him. So they make full scale drawings of whatever project they're gonna work on you have to be able to create the curves first -- piece of paper. In order to get them onto a pattern free hand. Yeah some free hand and then sometimes you bend a thin piece of wood to get a nice fair curve you can Trace in off of that if you have another pair of hands especially for the first time I think if you do it for many years and -- I have to draw quite as many things but in the very beginning it's. It's necessary I notice everybody's got some relatively beautiful tool boxes that's something that they arrive with the I don't know that's that's the first exercise after the beginning mechanical drawing exercises. Every one has to build a chest for their pools that's a piece of traditional case work. That lets the students begin the process of learning how to you know work. Create panels dovetail joints and it gets them organized in the beginning -- are tools for them gives them an opportunity to explore. The traditional case work in a profound way. Alex what's the admissions. Process like is it easy to get into the school. Well there's quite a few applicants as you could imagine it and they need to go through a screening process and I think it's very useful for them to have had. Some significant experience before they get here than they can pick up the basics where we start it and really run with -- in a way that they wouldn't be able to have they had to really start from square one right."
" Is this your piece this is Tom's piece he's been with the with the group here for a almost Paul -- about a year and half. So you'll be you'll be finished in another half a year. I'll be finished in the end of June actually end up. You've been building this yeah I -- this. Londoners and on that thing that's about it right on Christmas time. So it's just been about six months. Yeah qualified I don't have spots and where you what we're doing before you came to the school -- housing and confident. OK so you had carpentry experience correct but not fine furniture -- no nothing like this yeah. Vision which isn't based on a historic -- it's based on a piece made in Salem by Henry rust Paula 176070. Natives. I think because it's well actually my instructor picked up on the so it was made in Salem Massachusetts where there was a whole historic school of furniture building and -- SL a was a huge commercial center at one time rival. Boston right economic strength and power right. And they certainly had the furniture to prove it -- and we we can we touch it and we they're so open -- that'll -- at a time this is all mahogany. Correct the brass is look. Perfect fit me perfectly authentic. -- have there are typical for the period to say how much. Does -- company that makes very firm carrier I was so those you are absolutely beautiful pocket. Now all of it is solid mahogany is no veneer work here not up yet. Are there any secret compartment -- not to say yeah -- abusive and violent. -- how many hours do you think you've put into it solid four months worth almost worth its been quite and his friends very tedious but. It's rewarding it and reds yeah. Now when -- finished with something like this you're not gonna take it home put in the living room you're probably sell it right if I can yeah yeah trying to sell it to work of art good luck. --"
