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 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 edge profilingContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue 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 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 edge profilingContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue 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 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, you willContinue 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 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 restaurantsContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR 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 edge profilingContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR 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 edge profilingContinue 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 Staked Stool with Chris Schwarz Introduction to Staked Furniture Learn the essential skills to design and build staked furniture – anything from a sawbench to a desk to an armchair. In this weekend class, each student will design a small footstool with a half-scale model made ofContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Comb Back Chair with Chris Schwarz Build a comfortable stick armchair in the Welsh tradition using many tools and materials that are familiar to the typical woodworker. If chairmaking intimidates you, you aren’t alone. The tools, materials and processes seem to require a pledge of allegianceContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Comb Back Chair with Chris Schwarz Build a comfortable stick armchair in the Welsh tradition using many tools and materials that are familiar to the typical woodworker. If chairmaking intimidates you, you aren’t alone. The tools, materials and processes seem to require a pledge of allegianceContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR 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 edge profilingContinue 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 Mastering The Bandsaw A properly-tuned band saw can — and perhaps should — be the centre of an efficient woodshop. Bandsaws are capable of very accurate work, from cutting precise tenon joints to resawing the densest woods straight and smooth to cutting fluid curved shapes. Even anContinue Reading
Meet Your Instructor 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 restaurantsContinue 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 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 edge profilingContinue 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 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 edge profilingContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR 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, you willContinue 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 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 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 edge profilingContinue Reading
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR Staked Stool with Chris Schwarz Introduction to Staked Furniture Learn the essential skills to design and build staked furniture – anything from a sawbench to a desk to an armchair. In this weekend class, each student will design a small footstool with a half-scale model made ofContinue Reading
