The Club’s mentoring program is designed to expand its members woodworking skills. Periodically projects are selected that focus on a skill. With a skilled club member acting as an instructor, each participant undertakes the selected project. Normally each participant will provide his or her own materials.
Mentoring has been conducted at a site outside Tellico Village, such as Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, which is a national art education center about 1 ½ hours from Tellico Village. Offsite mentoring is generally multi- day event where participants share any facility fees and require offsite lodging (at the attendees’ expense).
Additionally we have a number of club members who share specific skills Help is also always available through the Technique & Skills Assistance program.
Mentored Skills by Year
| 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convex Curve Cutter | Banding Inlay | DIY table saw taper jig | ||
| Hand Made Dovetail Joints | Butterfly Inlay | DIY table saw sled | ||
| Turning Christmas Ornaments | Epoxy Inlay | DIY box joint jig for table saw | ||
| Turning Segmented Bowls | Carving Basics | Making Shaker boxes | ||
| Milling Rough Sawn Lumber | Leigh Dovetail Jig (Router Table) | Using Leigh jig to cut dovetails on router table | ||
| Resawing Boards | Table Saw Miter Sled | Routing inlays | ||
| Mortise & Tenon Joints | Table Top Veneered w/Solid Wood Mitered Board | Pocket hole joinery | ||
| Router Inlays | Sliding Dovetail Joinery | Biscuit joinery | ||
| Scroll Saw Project | Intarsia Eagle | Making square frames and boxes) | ||
| Veneering | Tenons on Table Saw | Introduction to Intarsia | ||
| Unique Coasters & Cutting Board | Lettering on CNC | Making specialty lathe tools | ||
| Duplicate Chair Rockers on Band Saw | Making knives | |||
| Wedged Through Tennons | CNC routing | |||
| Hand Cut Dovetails | Making patterns for use with flush trim bits | |||
| Box Joint Jig (From 2017 Mentoring Session) | DIY table saw inserts | |||
| Decorative Bands in Glued-up Turnings | Re-sawing techniques | |||
| Mortise and Tennon Joinery | Mortise and tenon joinery | |||
| Three Dimensional Coasters/ Cutting Board | Router basics | |||
| Cutting Crown Molding | Woodworking tool maintenance and restoration | |||
| Turning bowl | ||||
| Tool sharpening |