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Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Knife Making – Live Online
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Jason Lonon Make A Sloyd Knife with Jason Lonon Live & On Line This is a comprehensive introduction to knifemaking in which you will start with a handcrafted knife blade already heat-treated and sharpened. This is the perfect time to learn a new skill from the comfort…
Pencil Making Aspen Golann – Live Online
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Aspen Golann PENCILS: FROM SCRATCH Live & On-Line Make An Essential Furniture Drafting Pencil Set If you draft furniture or draw portraits, journal, or enjoy the art of the handwritten note, then you know the importance of a good pencil. In this class, we will handcraft the…
Beginning Woodworking | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Learn To Woodwork The Weekend Beginning Woodworking class provides a hands-on workshop experience and a condensed introduction to foundational woodworking techniques and power tools. It is ideal for determining if you’d like to get more involved in woodworking, refreshing your skills, or familiarizing yourself with…
The Art & Technicals of Box Making
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN THE CLASSIC & TECHNICAL ART OF BOX MAKING This Box Making course builds on your woodworking and power tool knowledge and is a great stepping stone class to larger projects, like cabinets or drawers. In this hands-on five day class, you'll learn and practice multiple box making…
Make a (Romantic) Cutting Board Funday
Funday Make an Artisanal Cutting Board Level: Open to All Starting with a block of wood, you will mill up and then glue together multiple strips to make up your artisanal cutting board. While the glue is drying, we'll break for lunch and there are some lovely restaurants locally so you…
Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Chisel Box + Opt Marquetry Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Make a Chisel Storage Box Weekend Class - Open to All Build your skills and store your tools! Chisels present a special challenge, their sharp edges can inflict damage as well as suffer it, so if your chisels are rattling around in a drawer, or…
Embellishing Your Work – Kelly Parker
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KELLY PARKER EMBELLISHING YOUR WORK GOLD LEAF - MILK PAINT - EBONIZING Join Kelly Parker for a 2-day zoom class and hands-on adventure as you explore the art and science of embellishing wood. Surface embellishment is a way to add visual interest and value to your work. …
Bench Making | Jameel Abraham
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR JAMEEL ABRAHAM "Bench Making" with Jameel Abraham Come learn to build this piece of history from the utopian village of Amana Iowa. This staked bench design originated in Europe and was brought to western New York by German immigrants in the late 18th century when they…
Drawing For Makers | M. Fortune
Meet Your Instructor Michael Fortune VIRTUAL ZOOM CLASSROOM Drawing for Furniture Makers with Michael Fortune This real-time online class taught by master furniture maker Michael Fortune will help you evolve your furniture design ideas from rough doodles to true pictorial drawings. Michael spent many early years drawing still-lifes but converting…
Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Essential Handtool & Joinery Skills
Meet Your Instructor Kelly Scott 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 Kelly Scott will increase your joinery skills regardless of…
Intro To Marquetry – Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Introduction To Marquetry Marquetery is the process of making pictures from small pieces of veneer and insetting them into a larger, thicker piece of material such as a box lid, cabinet door, or table top. Marquetry has been used for centuries to add decorative details to many…
Fine Case Making | Meredith Hart
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR MEREDITH HART STYLISH MID CENTURY SIDE TABLE A multidisciplinary class with a fantastic end result! This side table class builds on your woodworking and power tool knowledge and is a great first step into a cabinet/case making class. In this jammed packed hands-on six-day class, you'll learn…
Young Hands Woodworking – Bird House
Young Hands Woodworking - Bird House Level: Open to All, Minimum Age 10 This is a great parent/child class with a small project that is easy and fun but gives younger students an opportunity to try their hand at woodworking. As a team, the parent and child will work on crafting…
Classical Carving For All | Mary May
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR MARY MAY Carving with Mary May What better way to spend a week than to put a woodcarving gouge in your hand, create something beautiful- and have fun! Mary May, a well-known professional woodcarver and instructor from South Carolina, will walk you through the carving…
Beginning Woodworking | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Learn To Woodwork The Weekend Beginning Woodworking class provides a hands-on workshop experience and a condensed introduction to foundational woodworking techniques and power tools. It is ideal for determining if you’d like to get more involved in woodworking, refreshing your skills, or familiarizing yourself with…
Wood Router Essentials | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Router Essentials for Every Woodworker Fixed routers and plunge routers add a LOT to the workshop, but they can be intimidating to use. With the amazingly diverse availability of router bit profiles, there are many different things you can do on a router table; from…
Greenwood Furniture | Jason Lonon
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Jason Lonon Greenwood Furniture with Jason Lonon This is a comprehensive introduction to crafting greenwood furniture. In times past, milking stools saw benches, and a host of other furniture were built on the framework of a thick slab seat holding the legs in round mortices. Come and…
Beginning Woodworking | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Learn To Woodwork The Weekend Beginning Woodworking class provides a hands-on workshop experience and a condensed introduction to foundational woodworking techniques and power tools. It is ideal for determining if you’d like to get more involved in woodworking, refreshing your skills, or familiarizing yourself with…
Joinery & Handtools – Weekend
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 here…
Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Chisel Box + Opt Marquetry Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Make a Chisel Storage Box Weekend Class - Open to All Build your skills and store your tools! Chisels present a special challenge, their sharp edges can inflict damage as well as suffer it, so if your chisels are rattling around in a drawer, or…
Rocking Chair | Frank Strazza
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,…
The Art & Technicals of Box Making
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN THE CLASSIC & TECHNICAL ART OF BOX MAKING This Box Making course builds on your woodworking and power tool knowledge and is a great stepping stone class to larger projects, like cabinets or drawers. In this hands-on five day class, you'll learn and practice multiple box making…
Make a Cutting Board Funday
Funday Make an Artisanal Cutting Board Level: Open to All Starting with a block of wood, you will mill up and then glue together multiple strips to make up your artisanal cutting board. While the glue is drying, we'll break for lunch and there are some lovely restaurants locally so you…
Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Young Hands Woodworking – Bird House
Young Hands Woodworking - Bird House Level: Open to All, Minimum Age 10 This is a great parent/child class with a small project that is easy and fun but gives younger students an opportunity to try their hand at woodworking. As a team, the parent and child will work on crafting…
Chair Making | Philip Morley
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR PHILIP MORLEY 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…
Heirloom Benchtools with Aspen Golann
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Aspen Golann Serious Skills & Fun Projects Aspen Golann Customize your woodworking and start at the bench! Join Aspen Golann for this week of ancillary skill-building and be the only woodworker you know with a suite of handmade, custom benchtop tools including drafting pencils, bench brush…
Anarchist Tool Chest | Megan Fitzpatrick
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Megan Fitzpatrick 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…
Finishing Furniture | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR DIANE SHATTUCK Learn To Finish Furniture This weekend finishing class provides a hands-on experience on finishing techniques and tools. Come learn why you finish, how to choose the right finish and explore all the different types of coatings available that will give your piece a professional grade finish. By the end of the class,…
Tea Box with Kumiko Panel | M. Pekovich
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR MIKE PEKOVICH 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…
Tansu Wall Cabinet | Mike Pekovich
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR MIKE PEKOVICH 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.…
Japanese Handtools & Joinery 日本の木工
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Dylan Iwakuni INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE HANDTOOLS & JOINERY 日本の木工 Dylan Iwakuni Japan has a long history of building structures using the abundance of wood found throughout the land. The wood was cut into unique and complex joints, allowing the wood to join with each other, without the…
Beginning Woodworking | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Learn To Woodwork The Weekend Beginning Woodworking class provides a hands-on workshop experience and a condensed introduction to foundational woodworking techniques and power tools. It is ideal for determining if you’d like to get more involved in woodworking, refreshing your skills, or familiarizing yourself with…
Young Hands Woodworking – Bird House
Young Hands Woodworking - Bird House Level: Open to All, Minimum Age 10 This is a great parent/child class with a small project that is easy and fun but gives younger students an opportunity to try their hand at woodworking. As a team, the parent and child will work on crafting…
Make a Cutting Board Funday
Funday Make an Artisanal Cutting Board Level: Open to All Starting with a block of wood, you will mill up and then glue together multiple strips to make up your artisanal cutting board. While the glue is drying, we'll break for lunch and there are some lovely restaurants locally so you…
Beginning Woodworking
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Foundation Beginning Woodwork This foundation beginning woodworking class, will teach you how to build furniture using both power tools and hand tools. This course is perfect for beginners or for intermediates who want to hone their skills. Everything you will need is here in the…
Box Making Intro
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Make a Chisel Storage Box Weekend Class - Open to All Build your skills and store your tools! Chisels present a special challenge, their sharp edges can inflict damage as well as suffer it, so if your chisels are rattling around in a drawer, or…
Make a Cutting Board Funday
Funday Make an Artisanal Cutting Board Level: Open to All Starting with a block of wood, you will mill up and then glue together multiple strips to make up your artisanal cutting board. While the glue is drying, we'll break for lunch and there are some lovely restaurants locally so you…
Beginning Woodworking | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR KATE SWANN Learn To Woodwork The Weekend Beginning Woodworking class provides a hands-on workshop experience and a condensed introduction to foundational woodworking techniques and power tools. It is ideal for determining if you’d like to get more involved in woodworking, refreshing your skills, or familiarizing yourself with…
Wood Router Essentials | Weekend
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR ANDREW GIBSON Router Essentials for Every Woodworker Fixed routers and plunge routers add a LOT to the workshop, but they can be intimidating to use. With the amazingly diverse availability of router bit profiles, there are many different things you can do on a router table; from…