Ari High Stool Making - Koitoya Woodworking Class 2024

Ari High Stool Making

This is a 4-days course-$1390 

23-24 November & 7-8 December 2024

Content

Making Ari Stool

This program includes lots of technical aspects of joinery and router jig work. Well supported even for beginners.

This program also requires physical skills for hand curving.

Well suited for beginners, with a help of using jigs.

Well suited for intermediate to advanced level to learn about Sliding Dovetail joinery, router jig works.

Ari Stool

​Ari stool was originally designed by Hiroshi for the educational project. The basic design includes a few interesting skills, traditional Sliding dovetail joinery and shaping by curved plane.

"Ari" is a Japanese word for dovetail joinery, which refers to the shape of ant's antenna. Do you prefer Dovetail or ant's antenna?!

Hiroshi has designed a few versions, and so have his students! Come and make your version of Ari stool!

Previously, Ari Stool was designed for normal height (H450mm). It had technical difficulty to make it higher. Now we changed a few elements to make it possible to become popular high stool!

This program suits beginners to advanced woodworker.

This course is designed for beginners. But the secretive elements of making Sliding Dovetail joinery, and use of Japanese small planes will inspire advanced makers.

This course uses router very heavily. Your safety will be assured with lectures and jigs we use. Also, there will be lots of handworks, plane shaping and chiseling.

You will gain the following from signing up

1. Ari stool, all made by yourself by hand and power tools
2. Hands-on experience on sliding dovetail joinery.
3. Hands-on experience on ​a curved Japanese plane.
4. Advanced routing knowledge with jig work.
5. (May be) Steam bending experience for the seat.

* Apologies advanced - We are trying to put steam bending process for the seat in this course. Because this is the first course we run, if it doesn't suit our time frame, we will not go ahead but use other method.

Design limitation and free details

• Size about W500 x D250 x H600~700mm
• Leg angle will be set angle.
• Free to design details
• Profiles - round, curved, or angled

Dates (1 occasion)

1. 23-24 November & 7-8 December 2024(Sat~Sun)

Time

4 days, 24 hours in total

9:00-12:00 | 13:00-16:00

* Please be flexible for your schedule after the class. Sometimes your project requires extra time to finish.

Schedule

Day 1 

AM: ​Design the details, Lectures, glue up the seat 

PM: Sliding dovetail 1, (Steam bend the seat)

Day 2

AM: Sliding dovetail 2

PM: Shaping the seating tops

Day 3

AM: Other joinery work and sanding 

PM: Glue up

Day 4

AM: Middle rails & pins

PM: Finishing

Lecturer

Hiroshi Yamaguchi (KOITOYA Design/Make/Teach)

28 years of experience. Learned in Takayama, Japan.

About Hiroshi Yamaguchi

John Lane (Koitoya staff, furniture maker over 20 years of experience)

* Day 1 PM & Day 2 PM - Hiroshi will be out just for a couple of hours for other commitment he can't avoid. But other staff member will be looking after you. 

Fee

$1380

Class size

Maximum 8

Location

Koitoya Design/Make/Teach (Fyshwick, ACT)

Address

4/18 Maryborough Street, Fyshwick ACT 2609

Search "Koitoya Design" rather than our address on Google Map

Parking

Please park your car in the public parking area along Maryborough Street (Free), opposite from Burning Log.

We have two parking spots officially. Please contact me for the spot if you need to walk less for your health condition.

Way to the workshop

Search "Koitoya Design" rather than our address on Google Map

18 Maryborough Street is a battle-axe block, located inside of the block, so you will be walking through the driveway that leads to the block from Maryborough Street.

The driveway has 2 accesses, one next to Tania Maras Bridal, and one next to J Racing.

Unit 4 is a blue painted building on the right-hand side of the block.

Things to bring

Please wear working shoes.

Bring your own water bottle and lunch.

Things to be supplied

Tea and coffee, snacks, filtered water

Refund Policy

Personal cancelation

Refunds up to 14 days before event

Humanitix fee is nonrefundable.

for more information, please contact Hiroshi

koitoya@gmail.com / 0412340619

Photos

Following photos shows our close direction. Not exactlly what we are going to make.

Please also see the "Ari Stool" Album for referance.

Details will be changed by the time of the workshop.

Sorry we still have to improve a few details for bended seating and how the rails sit.

Album from simiral past workshop

Past Ari Stool Workshop Album