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Get Floored By The Progress

The Menokin Ghost Structure: Memoria and Kairos – Day Two

Day One ended with peg manufacturing in full swing (need 80 total), the grade beams of the structure assembled and the chiseling of the mortise and tenon joints well underway.

By lunchtime on Day Two, the floorboards were cut and laid. Preparations for the framing of the walls began in anticipation of the vertical beam raising to take place on Day Three. And let’s not forget the fashion show of the Fab Four students voguing their Menokin hats.

Take a virtual stroll through the pictures and imagine the scent of fresh-cut pine perfuming the air; hear the scrape of draw blades shaping pegs; feel the delicious spring combination of warm sun and cool breeze on your skin and get floored by the progress being made on our newest interpretive tool at Menokin.

Pre-register for Historic Trades/Carpentry Workshop

 WHEN:
October 9 – 10,  2015

WHERE:
Menokin Foundation, Warsaw, VA

WHAT:
Very hands-on and interactive course work; instruction and techniques will be covered for the following:

• Shingle making
• Chopping mortises
• Making tenons
• Peg making/drawboring
• Planing
• Using molding planes
• Discussion of paneling work, sashes and doors
• And more!

About The Instructors

Matt Webster
Historic Preservation Architect

Garland Wood
Master Carpenter

Ted Boscano
Joiner and Carpenter

Pre-register

 

 

By pre-registering, you are expressing an interest in attending the workshop and would like to receive detailed information when it is available. Pre-registration is not binding in any way.