JUST JOINERY
Detail of joinery from Breathing Drawers by Pete Schlebecker, basswood, mahogany, and cast silicone rubber (17"x20"x50"), 2005
Pete Schlebecker
August 3 – 7
Welcome to JoineryFest 2009! Participants get hands-on experience in making a full range of essential woodworking joints with power tools and hand tools. The variety of joints Pete covers includes mortise-and-tenons, dowels, biscuits, inserted tenons, box joints, dovetails, sliding dovetails, miter joints, tongue-and-grooves, and splines, among others. Students practice joinery with routers, table saws, chisels, hand saws, Dominos, biscuit joiners, slot mortisers, and hollow-chisel mortisers.
Participants leave with confidence in their ability to wed two sticks together so that they stay married.
Pete Schlebecker, the Center’s Staff Instructor and Facilities Manager, has been a studio furniture maker since 1984 and earned an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Pete was co-founder of the Alexandria Center for Woodworking Arts in Alexandria, Virginia. In recent years he has written articles and made how-to videos for Fine Woodworking. "Build a Rock-solid Router Table" appeared in the November 2007 issue, and "5 Essential Jigs for the Router Table" appeared in the October 2008 issue, with companion videos on the magazine’s web site. Pete teaches the Veneering and Multiples projects for the Comprehensive.