Your five-day workshop of traditional hand tool joinery and cabinetry is a concentrated introduction to classic bench work. Roy Underhill, former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, conducts the full course along with author, teacher and artisan par exellence Bill Anderson. You’ll have proper vintage tools to work with, including both wooden and metal planes as we begin …

This single day will change your woodworking life! You'll learn proven sharpening techniques as well as exploring the micro-world of the cutting edge. This is a great day of hands on experience with a range of sharpening media (waterstones, oil stones, sandpaper, etc) and techniques to sharpen planes blades, chisels, spokeshaves, curved bladed tools and …

Crank up your bench planes skills! We'll cover the restoration, sharpening, and tune up of hand planes. You'll get hands-on experience with both wooden and metal-bodied scrub, block, smooth, jack, try, fore and jointer planes. You'll see how to use the series of bench planes to surface and dimension stock and prepare stock for glue-ups. We'll …

Four Days Not for the faint hearted! First you make the tools, then you make the furniture! You start by making a matched pair of fenced rule joint planes that you can use to make dropleaf tables. This is an intense workshop! We will be making 2 planes in 3 days and tuning them on the …

Two days. This is the famous Howarth 15” turning bowsaw that Bill wrote about in Popular Woodworking, Nov 11, 2011. We'll provide the hardware and the handles as you lay out the frame and stretcher, cut mortises, shape the parts using a drawknife, spokeshave, rasp, and bowsaw (!). This is a wonderful woodworking tool as …

Three Days Make your own darn bench plane! - A new coffin smoother, open tote jack plane, or closed tote jointer will be yours after three hard-working days. Made of quartersawn American beech, these planes use traditional tapered irons - typical of the eighteenth century. Although each of these planes serves a different function in …

Your five-day workshop of traditional hand tool joinery and cabinetry is a concentrated introduction to classic bench work. Roy Underhill, former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, conducts the full course along with author, teacher and artisan par exellence Bill Anderson. You’ll have proper vintage tools to work with, including both wooden and metal planes as we begin …

You will learn to sharpen a rip panel saw (5-7 tpi) and a crosscut panel saw (7-10 tpi).  We'll study saw anatomy, restoring antique saws, and discuss merits of various sawsets, saw vises and saw tooth geometry.  Finally, we'll work on rip and crosscut sawing techniques both with panel saws and with backsaws. Bring your …

This workshop is geared for the complete beginning dovetailer – a great opportunity to help out Santa and his elves with a handmade present for someone special! You will learn two types of dovetails to complete this project, which is 6” by 8” and 3” deep with a beveled. sliding top. We will use a …

This workshop is geared for the complete beginning dovetailer – a great opportunity to help out Santa and his elves with a handmade present for someone special! You will learn two types of dovetails to complete this project, which is 6” by 8” and 3” deep with a beveled. sliding top. We will use a …