MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Precision Joinery Weekend Workshop Come and spend a weekend learning how to cut the most precision joints with care and craft. Do you want to hone your hand tool joinery skills and improve your overall woodworking and furniture making? Everything you will need is hereContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor FRANK STRAZZA Build Your Skills with A Craftsman Style Rocking Chair Frank Strazza An heirloom rocking chair where beautiful curves and fine details go hand-in-hand with amazing comfort Building a rocking chair is a great achievement for woodworkers and this particular chair is both beautiful and comfortable,Continue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Chair making with Philip Morley Come and build your skills and furnish your home with this sleek and contemporary Morley Lounge chair. Designed with a Mid Century flair but supremely comfortable, this chair is an excellent way to both develop your woodworking skills and make aContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills Handtool work and joinery are vital skills for all woodworkers. There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will increase your joinery skills regardless of your startingContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR In this five day class, we are going to build traditional full-size English tool chests – a.k.a. “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” from Christopher Schwarz’s book of that title – using (mostly) hand tools. If you’d like to learn dovetails (while you build a sturdy chest thatContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Twin Windsor Chairs - An Intro to Chair Making Aspen Golann Take your first step into chair making with Aspen Golann! This classic and elegant design will fit into a wide variety of decorating styles, it is also an excellent woodworking skill builder. You’ll walk away withContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Build Your Box Making Skills with Mike Pekovich Are you looking to spice up your work in a novel way? Then you need to sharpen your chisels and try your hand at Kumiko melded with Box Making. Kumiko is a Japanese latticework technique that is traditionallyContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Make a Tansu Wall Cabinet with Mike Pekovich Join Mike Pekovich and make a beautiful wall cabinet in this five-day class. Dovetails and through-tenons provide plenty of strength and offer some visual interest, and Mike has some great tips for cutting accurate, stress-free joinery. The frame-and-panelContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE CARPENTRY 日本の木工 Andrew Hunter Traditional Japanese woodworking has much to offer the west, particularly those of us with an interest in working wood with hand tools. Japan's blacksmiths are renowned for the quality of their blades, and their carpenters are equally respected for theContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR The Art of The Surface The Art of Carving Surfaces A wonderful opportunity to explore the art of carving and textural surface work in a very creative way. This class is open to non-woodworkers as well as woodworkers of all skill levels who would like to breakContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Fan Back Windsor Chair Travis Curtis Learn the Craft of Windsor Chair Making Learn to build a classic side chair that incorporates all aspects of Windsor chair building. The class focuses on hand tool skills and green woodworking techniques. "It is not clear when the first WindsorContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Learn How To Make Boxes A wonderful opportunity to explore the art of box making in a very creative way. This class is open to non-woodworker as well as woodworkers of all skill levels who would like to break into new territory. Bandsaw Box Skills In thisContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR PHILIP MORLEY Make a MCM Wall Cabinet Philip Morley Limited spaces available. Come and build your skills and furnish your home with this clean and contemporary Morley Wall Cabinet. The wall cabinet is inspired by the works of James Krenov with a Scandinavian influence. Philip designedContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Build Your Skills with A Shaker Style Side Table Frank Strazza An heirloom table where fine details go hand-in-hand with a beautiful clean style. Building a table is a great achievement for early woodworkers and this particular table is both beautiful and challenging, it’s a tableContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Introduction to Table Making A beautiful Shaker-style console table packed with new techniques and skills Small tables are wonderful skill-building projects, where new skills are acquired, and existing skills are reinforced. Small tables also provide ample opportunity to dial up the detailing to express one’s own designContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills Handtool work and joinery are vital skills for all woodworkers. There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will increase your joinery skills regardless of your startingContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Learn How To Make Boxes A wonderful opportunity to explore the art of box making in a very creative way. This class is open to non-woodworker as well as woodworkers of all skill levels who would like to break into new territory. Bandsaw Box Skills In thisContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Build Your Skills with A Craftsman Style Rocking Chair Frank Strazza An heirloom rocking chair where beautiful curves and fine details go hand-in-hand with amazing comfort Building a rocking chair is a great achievement for woodworkers and this particular chair is both beautiful and comfortable, it’sContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Need Some Relief: Bringing Interest & Life to Your Work with Rotary Power-Carving Dixie Biggs Explore the embellishment techniques of power relief carving and woodburning that can be used by woodturners, furnituremakers or other wood artists to expand the visual impact of your pieces. Students will learnContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills Handtool work and joinery are vital skills for all woodworkers. There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will increase your joinery skills regardless of your startingContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills Handtool work and joinery are vital skills for all woodworkers. There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will increase your joinery skills regardless of your startingContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Windsor Chairs - An Intro to Chair Making Aspen Golann Take your first step into chair making with Aspen Golann! This classic and elegant design will fit into a wide variety of decorating styles, it is also an excellent woodworking skill builder. You’ll walk away with aContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Build Your Box Making Skills with Mike Pekovich Are you looking to spice up your work in a novel way? Then you need to sharpen your chisels and try your hand at Kumiko melded with Box Making. Kumiko is a Japanese latticework technique that is traditionallyContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Make a Tansu Wall Cabinet with Mike Pekovich Join Mike Pekovich and make a beautiful wall cabinet in this six-day class. Dovetails and through-tenons provide plenty of strength and offer some visual interest, and Mike has some great tips for cutting accurate, stress-free joinery. The frame-and-panelContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR I’m a fan of a full-sized tool English chest – but they aren’t easily portable. So on the road, I use a smaller, and more portable Dutch Tool Chest (like the one that appeared years ago in Jim Tolpin’s “The Toolbox Book”) for ferrying my toolsContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR TUNING YOUR JAPANESE HANDPLANE 日本の木工 Andrew Hunter What seems like a simple tool, a blade and a block of wood, the Japanese plane (Kanna) is actually a very complex instrument with many subtle qualities.\The first challenge most westerners face when learning to use one is that theyContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE CARPENTRY 日本の木工 Andrew Hunter The Way of Japanese Carpentry embodies more than just the technical aspects of woodworking. It is a way of being led by presence of mind. It is finding elegance in both the simple and complex. If you look, beautyContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills Handtool work and joinery are vital skills for all woodworkers. There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will increase your joinery skills regardless of your startingContinue Reading
Steps Into Craftsmanship/Craftswomanship I Foundational Hand Skills During this five-day introduction to hand skills, Frank draws on his years working with hand tools to share with you the skills he has learned. You will learn how to sharpen and use many hand tools, including chisels, planes, and scrapers. Also learnContinue Reading
Handtool Skills | Mike Pekovich I'm often asked about prerequisites for the furniture classes I teach. The answer is pretty simple: You should be comfortable using a basic set of hand tools. That's it. You should know how to get them sharp and have an understanding of how they workContinue Reading
Amana Bench Making with Jameel Abraham Learn to build a piece of history from the unique village of Amana, Iowa. With origins in Europe, German immigrants brought the staked bench design to western New York in the late 18th century when they moved and established their religious community called Ebeneezer. Continue Reading
Intro to Handtool & Joinery Essential skills for all woodworkers There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will elevate your joinery skillset regardless of your skill level. You will learn to select joints, lay themContinue Reading
Steps into Craftsmanship/Craftswomanship II with Frank Strazza In this class, we will build a Shaker-style table to advance your fine woodworking skills– focusing predominantly on hand tool usage. The table itself is an excellent achievement for early woodworkers, and this particular table is both beautiful and challenging. Frank will drawContinue Reading
Intro to Handtool & Joinery Essential skills for all woodworkers There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will elevate your joinery skillset regardless of your skill level. You will learn to select joints, lay themContinue Reading
Intro to Handtool & Joinery Essential skills for all woodworkers There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will elevate your joinery skillset regardless of your skill level. You will learn to select joints, lay themContinue Reading
Steps Into Craftsmanship/Craftswomanship I Foundational Hand Skills During this five-day introduction to hand skills, Frank draws on his years working with hand tools to share with you the skills he has learned. You will learn how to sharpen and use many hand tools, including chisels, planes, and scrapers. Also learnContinue Reading
Intro to Handtool & Joinery Essential skills for all woodworkers There is nothing more valuable than being able to select and cut joints with skill and ease. This class taught by Andrew Gibson will elevate your joinery skillset regardless of your skill level. You will learn to select joints, lay themContinue Reading
