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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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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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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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