Students Learn to Build Shaker Boxes, and Much More, With Rev. Bob Ives from cherry carpenter Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 74 sec
✓ Published: 21-Mar-2015

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Each semester, Rev. Bob Ives offers a Shaker box class at Bowdoin, teaching students how to craft small oval boxes out of delicate cherry wood, and in the process, teaching them the handy skills of using planes, chisels and power tools.nnYet the workshop is more than a carpentry class; it is also a chance for students to learn about the Shaker faith, and even to practice some of the tenets of the religion, such as simplicity and conscientiousness. “I love to build these kinds of boxes,” Ives