
Furniture Making Classes
Classes in furniture making for woodworkers using traditional and contemporary methods.
Furniture Making Courses
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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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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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
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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Otto Kildegaard, Matthew Straughn-Morse, Annalise Rubida, Kevin Reiswig
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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Otto Kildegaard, Matthew Straughn-Morse, Annalise Rubida, Kevin Reiswig
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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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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Raphael Berrios
5 Days, Open to All
Build a bookcase using pre-industrial artisan techniques in this five-day workshop. Get ready to break a sweat, learn to produce dados, surface finish with hand planes, refine your layout skills, and understand how to use cut nails for case construction.
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Sarah Martin
5 Days, Open to All
This class will teach you the basic skills and tools needed to begin upholstering by creating an upholstered ottoman of your own original design.
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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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Lorin Seeks
5 Days, Open to All
Explore the iconic technique behind mid-century Scandinavian seating as you build a beautifully simple wood stool and weave the seat with Danish cord. This hands-on class is perfect for aspiring and experienced woodworkers alike, and anyone curious about the design and craft of Danish cord weaving.
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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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Kelly Parker
Weekend, Open to All
In this weekend course, you will be developing confidence in your furniture design skills by sketching, making models, creating construction drawings, and making full-sized mockups.
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Yuri Kobayashi
5 Days, Open to All
Experiment with the art and science of steam bending wood to create a vase, a tray, a basket, a lampshade, a component of furniture, or an absolute sculpture.
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Kevin Reiswig and Seth Rolland
10 Days, Some Skills Required
In this two-week class, students will practice and play with three different methods for creating strong and elegant curves in wood: bent laminations, brick-lay laminations, and coopering.
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Lacey Carnahan, Signy Svee
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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