Beginning Hand Tool Woodworking
Piper Tamler
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
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Piper Tamler
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
You’ll learn how to effectively tune and sharpen saws, and how to efficiently use western-style and Japanese-style handsaws.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
This weekend course teaches you to sharpen, tune, and use hand planes.
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Mike Pekovich
5 Days, Some Skills Required
Learn to use a combination of hand tools and power tools to build a wall cabinet with a traditional Japanese kumiko panel.
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Sarah Watlington
5 Days, Open to All
In this technique-based five-day class, artist and furniture maker Sarah Watlington will teach the art of shop-sawn veneering, parquetry, unconventional inlay, and how to utilize precious small pieces of wood– from exotic offcuts to tree branches– for maximum effect.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
In this two-day class, we'll introduce you to the techniques and steps to cut dovetails by hand using a handsaw and chisels.
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Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners - Women and LGBTQ+ Students
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools and get you excited to work with wood on your own. This class welcomes cis women, trans women and trans men, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and any woman-identifying people.
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Tim DeMuth
5 Days, Open to All
Join us for an exciting and rewarding five-day journey into the world of woodworking! Have you taken a beginning woodworking class but still need help refining how to apply those skills to complete projects? This class is for those students who already have some hands-on experience but want guidance and help realizing a project. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker looking to learn new skills, this course is ideal for anyone interested in tackling a woodworking project from a set of plans.
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Rob Millard-Mendez
5 Days, Open to All
In this five-day design and build course, you will learn to use hand tools and power tools to create a timeless, functional, and beautiful lamp that will illuminate and add visual interest to any interior space.
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John Edwards
5 Days, Some Skills Required
Build a wall cabinet with groove joints, dovetail joints, and mortise & tenon joints.
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Raphael Berrios
5 Days, Open to All
Build a table using pre-industrial artisan techniques in this five-day workshop. Get ready to break a sweat, learn to hand chop mortises, dimension stock with hand planes, and practice precision layout with minimal reference surfaces. This class is inspired by a class we ran with Joshua Klein in 2018.
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Kelly Parker
5 Days, Some Skills Required
You will construct a unique side table while learning the basics of solid wood construction, exposed-dowel joinery, and machine woodworking.
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Dale Brotherton
6 Days, Some Skills Required
This course will offer details of the fundamentals of Japanese woodworking, putting to use the tools that were set up in the beginner Japanese Tools class.
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Dale Brotherton
6 Days, Some Skills Required
This course will offer details of the fundamentals of Japanese woodworking, putting to use the tools that were set up in the beginner Japanese Tools class.
Details & Registration
Tim DeMuth
5 Days, Open to All
Join us for an exciting and rewarding five-day journey into the world of woodworking! Have you taken a beginning woodworking class but still need help refining how to apply those skills to complete projects? This class is for those students who already have some hands-on experience but want guidance and help realizing a project. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker looking to learn new skills, this course is ideal for anyone interested in tackling a woodworking project from a set of plans.
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Piper Tamler
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence, demystify woodworking through the use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
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Sabiha Mujtaba
5 Days, Open to All
Finding inspiration for furniture design can be creatively exciting when we interpret it from other art forms: music, poetry, painting, and even from symbols and glyphs. In this five-day class, students will learn to design and build a stool or side table from start to finish using inspiration from calligraphy. Sabiha will take you from inspiration and design concepts through model making, planning, joinery, shaping, and carving to bring your idea to life.
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Taeho Kwon
5 Days, Open to All
Kumiko is a delicate and sophisticated technique of assembling wooden pieces without using nails. In this five-day workshop, students will be introduced to making a Kumiko using traditional methods.
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John Edwards
5 Days, Open to All
In this five-day class, students will learn the craft of building a tool tote with groove joints, dovetail joints, and through mortise & tenon joints.
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Taeho Kwon
5 Days, Open to All
This five-day class will teach the making of a sitting bench rooted in traditional eastern timber frame joinery used to construct Buddhist temples.
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Raphael Berrios
5 Days, Open to All
Build a table using pre-industrial artisan techniques in this five-day workshop. Get ready to break a sweat, learn to hand chop mortises, dimension stock with hand planes, and practice precision layout with minimal reference surfaces. This class is inspired by a class we ran with Joshua Klein in 2018.
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Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence, demystify woodworking through the use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
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Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners - Women and LGBTQ+ Students
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own. This class welcomes cis women, trans women and trans men, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and any woman-identifying people.
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Megan Fitzpatrick
5 Days, Open to All
In this five-day class you’ll build the shell of your own traditional tool chest using hand tools and techniques. This is an excellent first project for a new hand-tool woodworker – especially if you want to get good at dovetails!
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Mike Pekovich
5 Days, Some Skills Required
Learn to use a combination of hand tools and power tools to build a wall cabinet with a traditional Japanese kumiko panel.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
This weekend course teaches you to sharpen, tune, and use hand planes.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
You’ll learn how to effectively tune and sharpen saws, and how to efficiently use western-style and Japanese-style handsaws.
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Alex Dolese
6 Days, Open to All
Build a comfortable and elegant rocking chair while learning the techniques of building quality furniture efficiently in this six-day course.
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Dale Brotherton
6 Days, Some Skills Required
This course will offer details of the fundamentals of Japanese woodworking, putting to use the tools that were set up in the beginner Japanese Tools class.
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Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners, Women, Trans, and Femme Only
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own. This class welcomes cis women, trans women and trans men, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and any woman-identifying people.
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Yann Giguère
6 days, Open to All
This six-day class will be a hands-on workshop focused primarily on the sharpening and setting up of traditional Japanese chisels and hand planes.
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Taeho Kwon
5 Days, Open to All
This five-day class will teach the making of a sitting bench rooted in traditional eastern timber frame joinery used to construct Buddhist temples.
Details & Registration
John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
In this two-day class we'll introduce you to the techniques and steps to cut dovetails by hand using a handsaw and chisels.
Details & Registration
John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
This weekend course teaches you to sharpen, tune, and use hand planes.
Details & Registration
Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence, demystify woodworking through the use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
Details & Registration
John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
You’ll learn how to effectively tune and sharpen saws, and how to efficiently use western-style and Japanese-style handsaws.
Details & Registration
Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners, Women, Trans, and Femme Only
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence in your use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own. This class welcomes cis women, trans women and trans men, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and any woman-identifying people.
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Matt Kenney
Weekend, Open to All
In this weekend course, you will be introduced to the world of box making through a series of hands-on lessons that will explore design, finish, materials, and effective techniques.
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John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
In this weekend class, you’ll learn how to quickly and efficiently layout, cut and fit mortise and tenon joinery using only hand tools.
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Mike Pekovich
5 Days, Some Skills Required
Learn to use a combination of hand tools and power tools to build a wall cabinet with a traditional Japanese kumiko panel.
Details & Registration
John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
In this two-day class we'll introduce you to the techniques and steps to cut dovetails by hand using a handsaw and chisels.
Details & Registration
Gina Bonneau
5 Days, For Beginners
This weeklong introductory course is intended to build confidence, demystify woodworking through the use of hand tools, and get students excited to work with wood on their own.
Details & Registration
John Edwards
Weekend, For Beginners
This weekend course teaches you to sharpen, tune, and use hand planes.
Details & Registration