Recently I've seen requests for a dovetail class and a turning class and I wondered? What is a fair price for someone to get instruction.
Phil S proposed a dovetail class this spring and it prompted me to ask the same question. What is a fair price for good instruction.
Looking around the site I found an address for a course offered on 4 separate nights for 2 hours each time. So 8 hours of instruction for 175 would work out to close to 20/hour. This seems well suited for a person who's weekends are booked and work is in the balance.
Another "class" instruction offering on building a dovetailed Moravian Candle box with Ray Pine was 320 for 2 full days at a site in Virginia. So I figure 16 hours and it works out to 20/hour again.
One I did here in Durham with students.
Is 20/hour too much? Maybe for a group environment but I see plenty of "schools" with multiple benches using that rate and a little higher.
I guess I don't see 20/hour as too much for dedicated instruction with examples at hand, stock for the student to use without having to go here and there and find it, (most of the time the stock is dimensioned before hand) and tools should the student have none.
I'm curious what members of the forum think about instruction and cost. Is it the prevailing view here on the site that instruction should be free? Small donation to the NCWW forum and instruction free? Hourly rate?
I think the real steal is finding instructors in the area that you don't have to pay for a hotel and meals for a few days or a week. You save a ton.
Any and all comments welcome on instruction and cost. Maybe with some feel for what an instructor can ask might lead to more offerings?
Phil S proposed a dovetail class this spring and it prompted me to ask the same question. What is a fair price for good instruction.
Looking around the site I found an address for a course offered on 4 separate nights for 2 hours each time. So 8 hours of instruction for 175 would work out to close to 20/hour. This seems well suited for a person who's weekends are booked and work is in the balance.
Another "class" instruction offering on building a dovetailed Moravian Candle box with Ray Pine was 320 for 2 full days at a site in Virginia. So I figure 16 hours and it works out to 20/hour again.
One I did here in Durham with students.
Is 20/hour too much? Maybe for a group environment but I see plenty of "schools" with multiple benches using that rate and a little higher.
I guess I don't see 20/hour as too much for dedicated instruction with examples at hand, stock for the student to use without having to go here and there and find it, (most of the time the stock is dimensioned before hand) and tools should the student have none.
I'm curious what members of the forum think about instruction and cost. Is it the prevailing view here on the site that instruction should be free? Small donation to the NCWW forum and instruction free? Hourly rate?
I think the real steal is finding instructors in the area that you don't have to pay for a hotel and meals for a few days or a week. You save a ton.
Any and all comments welcome on instruction and cost. Maybe with some feel for what an instructor can ask might lead to more offerings?