Joinery
Joinery Courses
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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