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With these traditional models as a foundation, you’ll be worldly-wise to diamond and build furnishments of any era you choose. As a custom furniture maker at NBSS, you’ll learn how to use and maintain both hand tools and power equipment. You’ll estimate costs, segregate materials, and prepare working drawings for each project. You’ll cut various joints, turn, carve, and wrench wood, wield marquetry or veneers. You’ll develop the knowledge, skills, and conviction necessary to create thoughtful furniture pieces to exacting standards.The expansive program space includes a large seat room, sit-in area, library, and finishing room. Students take regular field trips to view private and museum collections, and to visit the shops of prominent local woodworkers. Program DetailsCurriculum: Investigate what students learn over the undertow of the two-year program.Facilities: Virtually walk through the program space and seat room.Faculty: Meet our talented instructors, who are experts in their field.Tuition: Check out tuition, costs, and matriculation hours.Careers: Explore the wide variety of careers misogynist to Cabinet & Furniture Making graduates and the employment outlook.Profiles: Read well-nigh our alumni, including how an education at NBSS opened doors for them.Additional InfoAdmissions Info: How to get your using started and what you need to apply.Financial Aid: Your education is an investment. Learn well-nigh our financial aid options.Cabinet & Furniture Making program brochure: Download at-a-glance details. Questions? Contact Rob O'Dwyer, Director of Admissions, at 617-227-0155 x111 or admissions@nbss.edu. "The training in both the carpentry and furniture-making programs provided the opportunity to work and excel in areas I wouldn't previously have dreamed possible." Paula Garbarino CA '80, CF '88 ViewIncreasinglyCabinet & Furniture Making Alumni Profiles Cabinet & Furniture Making News Making Cabriole Legs with Steve Brown Steve Brown CF '90, Instructor in the Cabinet & Furniture Making program, recently published a unconfined how-to vendible in Fine Woodworking. The archetype cabriole leg is a solid diamond nomination for period furniture makers, but plane with just that leg style, choosing from a variety of foot styles to go with it can be daunting. Steve helps sieve the process with step-by-step instructions for laying out and scarification three worldwide feet for the cabriole leg: the pad, slipper, and trifid foot. Read increasingly well-nigh Making Cabriole Legs with Steve Brown At TheSeatwith Bob Miller CF '11 For the last six years, Bob Miller CF '11, small merchantry owner and Shop Technician for the Continuing Education Department, has not made many changes to his private seat space. However, three years ago he uninventive what he now considers his favorite and most useful tool: an emmert pattern makers seat vice. "That is by far the most used tool in my shop." he says "It's unusual, rare, and was manufactured sometime between 1898 and 1915, making it at least 100 years old." Read increasingly well-nigh At TheSeatwith Bob Miller CF '11 Shop Tour: Charlestown Furniture Makers Charlestown Furniture Makers is an 8,000 sf shared facility located in one of Boston's last remaining industrial areas. The two-story space boasts a 2,200 sf machine room, spray booth, finishing area, and seat space for up to 20 makers—nine of whom are NBSS graduates. Read increasingly well-nigh Shop Tour: Charlestown Furniture Makers A Culture of Excellence Nine graduates of the Cabinet & Furniture Making program are among the polity of woodworkers at the two-story Charlestown Furniture Makers shop, established in 2012 by David Ambler CF '11. "Like North Bennet Street School, one of the things we offer is a culture of excellence," explains David. "There's a real enjoyment stuff among people with shared interests in the valuing of craft." Read increasingly well-nigh A Culture of Excellence Completely Open to Whatever Was Coming My Way "When you find your career, it tends to be an tie-up of things as opposed to a finely focused event." Read well-nigh the successful maker's path and insights of John Mulligan CF '02, who now runs the open-concept work space Lawrence Lin Makerspace at UMASS Lowell. Read increasingly well-nigh Completely Open to Whatever Was Coming My Way Conversations in Craft Spotlight: Paula Garbarino In this 13-part series, we will spotlight each of the makers in the "Conversations in Craft" collaborative exhibit, and share their creative process. Paula Garbarino CA '80, CF '88 created a stand with marquetry, which was inspired by a tilt-top stand ca. 1810 from the hodgepodge at Fruitlands Museum. Read increasingly well-nigh Conversations in Craft Spotlight: Paula Garbarino < > North Bennet Street School 150 North Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 617.227.0155 info@nbss.edu Contact UsGetting Here Quicklinks Blog Posts CalendarProfilesVirtual ToursVideosTuition Payment FacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTube Jobs & Commissions Board © 2018 North Bennet Street School. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Site Map Powered by Finalsite