Philip Shelton
12-Week Intensive for Beginners
Approved for VA Funding, Scholarships Available

Through a series of progressively challenging projects, this intensive course puts you well on your way to becoming a fine woodworker. All tools provided.
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Gina Bonneau and Matthew Straughn-Morse
12-Week Intensive, Some Skills Required
Approved for VA Funding, Scholarships Available

This course is designed as a follow-up to Foundations of Woodworking I. Deepen your understanding of design and expand your range of joinery and decorative techniques to build beautiful, robust furniture.
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Gina Bonneau, Matthew Straughn-Morse
12-Week Intensive, Some Skills Required
Approved for VA Funding, Scholarships Available

This course is designed as a follow-up to Foundations of Woodworking I. Deepen your understanding of design and expand your range of joinery and decorative techniques to build beautiful, robust furniture.
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Brian Perry
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day course, students will work with Port Gamble S’Klallam master carver Brian Perry to learn about this tradition and form while completing their own mask with hand carving tools.
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Tim Lawson
Weekend, For Beginners

This weekend course is perfect for complete beginners to turning, or folks whose skills have gotten rusty and need refreshing.
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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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Tom Henscheid
Weekend, Open to All

This weekend class is designed to introduce you to the wonderful self-sufficient world of tool forging.
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Steve Habersetzer and Annalise Rubida
6 Days, Open to All

In this six-day course, we will guide you through building a traditional Windsor chair with a West Coast spin.
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James Johnson
5 Days, Open To All
In this five day class, you will be carving a spoon in the Tlingit tradition out of yellow cedar with Tlingit carver James Johnson.
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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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Elizabeth Weber
5 Days, Open to All

In this one-week course, students will spend time turning various bowl shapes, using turning tools and mini, benchtop lathes to achieve their desired shape.
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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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Tom Henscheid
Weekend Class, Open to All

In this two-day course, students will create their own path in spoon carving by learning various spoon carving designs and techniques that they can replicate and practice on their own.
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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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Tim Lawson
5 Days, For Beginners

This weeklong course is perfect for complete beginners or folks whose woodturning skills have gotten rusty and need refreshing.
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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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Lacey Carnahan & Otto Kildegaard
6 Days, Open to all skill levels

This six-day class is an introduction to the art of post and rung chairmaking.
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Matt Monaco
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day class, master woodturner Matt Monaco will guide you in learning to develop and implement the skills necessary to execute and create a variety of traditionally turned classic bowls.
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Raphael Berrios
Weekend, For Beginners

In this weekend class, we’ll be focusing on how to sharpen chisels and plane blades and introduce you to techniques to sharpen a wide variety of hand tools.
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Tom Fenollosa and Paul Denison
6 Days, Open to All

This six-day course covers the fundamentals of timber frame construction using the square rule method and includes the raising of the frame off-site from PTSW’s campus. 
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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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Martin Nerbovig
Weekend, Open to All

This weekend course is designed to give folks a start on understanding and operating CNC machines. This course is being offered in partnership with local manufacturer Camp N’ Car at their facility in Port Townsend.
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Keunho Peter Park
6 Days, Open to All

Make your own sculptural wooden stool in this six-day design/build course. 
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James Johnson
10 Days, Open To All

This ten-day class will teach the fundamentals of designing, drawing, carving, and painting a formline panel with Tlingit carver James Johnson.
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Katie Hudnall
5 Days, Some Skills Required

In this five-day class, you will design, build, and embellish your own small wall-hung cabinet.
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Cody Wayland
Weekend, Open to All

Each student in this course will have a hands-on experience maneuvering a log onto the mill carriage and then sawing this log into lumber.
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Gina Bonneau and Lacey Carnahan
5 Days, For Beginners

The goal of this weeklong class is to learn and practice the safe and effective use of machine tools, and basic machine tool maintenance and adjustments.
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Kimberly Winkle
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day course, you will learn the fundamentals of woodturning as well as finishes like milk paint and surface texture.
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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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Chris Landingin, Ginsy Stone
6 Days, Open to All

This six-day course for women and LGBTQ+ students covers the fundamentals of a New England style of timber frame construction using the square rule method.
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Pavel McGlave
Weekend, Open to All

In this weekend workshop in the woods, we’ll cover all the steps, safe practices, and professional tips that will help you feel confident in managing your own woodlot, back forty or small yard with a safe and sharp chainsaw.
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Annalise Rubida
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day design and build course, you will be guided through a creative practice around carving small-scale functional objects.
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Kari Morgan
5 Days, Open to All

In this weeklong course, learn to carve a totem pole-style bear sculpture out of yellow cedar while also learning about its cultural significance and history.
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Steve Habersetzer and Annalise Rubida
6 Days, Open to All

In this six-day course, we will guide you through building a traditional Windsor chair with a West Coast spin.
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Beth Ireland
5 Days, Open to All

This five-day offset turning class is designed for all levels of woodturning. Offset turning allows you to make geometrical shapes with the lathe which happens by changing the center point of the piece on what you are turning.
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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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Philip Sheton
12-Week Intensive for Beginners
Approved for VA Funding, Scholarships Available

Through a series of progressively challenging projects, this intensive course puts you well on your way to becoming a fine woodworker. All tools provided.
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Faculty
Weekend Class, For Beginners

You’ll be walked through the basics of common shop machines such as the table saw, band saw, thickness planer, and jointer.
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Julian Watts
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day class we will use both traditional and experimental carving techniques to create handheld sculptures that blur the line between functional objects and abstract works of art. By integrating the processes of spoon carving, expressive drawing, and power carving, students will leave the class not only with a robust carving skillset, but also an expanded view of what is possible at the intersection of traditional craft, art, and design.
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Steve Habersetzer
Weekend Class, Some Skills Required

In this weekend class, you'll learn the traditional art of coopering and make a bucket.
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Emi Shinmura
5 Days, For Beginners

In this five-day course, you will learn the basics to set up a minimal set of Japanese tools and workbench to get started in Japanese woodworking.
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Emi Shinmura
5 Days, Some Skills Required

In this five-day course, you will learn how to layout, cut, and fit traditional joints using Japanese techniques.
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Tom Henscheid
Weekend, For Beginners

This weekend class is designed to introduce you to the wonderful self-sufficient world of tool forging.
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James Johnson
10 Days, Open To All

This ten-day class will teach the fundamentals of designing, drawing, carving, and painting a formline panel with Tlingit carver James Johnson.
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Ben Kahn
Weekend, For Beginners

This weekend course is perfect for complete beginners to turning, or folks whose skills have gotten rusty and need refreshing.
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Annalise Rubida
5 Days, Open to All

In this five-day course, we will explore the fundamentals of Windsor chair construction and joinery by building a stool of your own design.
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Tom Henscheid
Weekend Class, Open to All

In this two-day course, students will create their own path in spoon carving by learning various spoon carving designs and techniques that they can replicate and practice on their own.
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Dale Brotherton
6 Days, For Beginners

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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Gina Bonneau and Lacey Carnahan
5 Days, For Beginners - Women & LGBTQ+ Students

The goal of this weeklong class is to learn and practice the safe and effective use of machine tools, and basic machine tool maintenance and adjustments. This class welcomes cis women, trans women and trans men, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and any woman-identifying people.
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Tom Henscheid
2 Days, Open to All

In this weekend class, we will learn the basics of selecting and sourcing materials, how to prepare substrates, and various methods of applying veneers in a fast-paced, fun environment. Each student will make a small, square veneered tabletop, which can be later attached to a leg structure of your choosing.
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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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Tim Lawson
5 Days, For Beginners

This weeklong course is perfect for complete beginners or folks whose woodturning skills have gotten rusty and need refreshing.
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