Thank you for your interest in furniture making and woodworking. Please call or visit if you have any further questions.
The Studio is a small but dynamic center for furniture making. My approach is to encourage furniture making at all levels of ability and interest while also pursuing my own work. Enrolling is not an opportunity to create a major cabinetmaking operation in my shop. If you are interested in furniture or sculpture I am open to discussing what you would like to do and what you can afford. Of course, joining the shop does not give you any leasehold possession or a guaranteed right to continue.
The shop has most of the machines and tools that you will need. Sharpening expenses, trash, standard router bits, and glue are included. Sandpaper is available at cost. Wide belt sander time is billed separately or free, if brief. My truck is available for lumber yard trips for a nominal $10 fee to MacBeath Lumber. The books of the library are reserved for Studio research. Participants may collect their own hand tools and I can make recommendations.
A commitment to the usual shop maintenance is expected and will usually be only a nominal amount. It includes sweeping, emptying the dust collector, and the like. Sustaining a woodworking shop in San Francisco can be challenging and to be able to do so is always something for which one is grateful.
The shop phone is available for emergency use and not usually for personal use. Participants are expected to use cell phones or phone cards. Generally, headset music is preferred.
Finding time for Introductions is complicated by my responsibilities at the Academy of Art College. I can be at the shop in an evening for the Review of Wood as a Material, some paperwork, and a discussion of your participation. The cost is $60 (check to Grew-Sheridan Studio, when we meet). Reservations are necessary. We will set a mutually convenient date. Tuition payments are due in advance. Partial payments are accepted, as are some trade and scholarship possibilities.
I look forward to hearing from you,
John Grew Sheridan
A letter from John Grew Sheridan
