Schools and seminars

Alan Turner designs and builds heirloom-quality, solid-wood furniture in a broad range of styles. Each piece is custom designed, incorporating a client’s personal preferences, the piece’s expected function in the client’s home or office, and Alan’s own unique aesthetic.

Ashem Crafts are makers of Rotary Planes and allied equipment, essential tools for chair makers wishing to make Windsor or Shaker style chairs. Individually hand made to a very high standard.

Our workshops are held at the Homestead Heritage Traditional Craft Village, surrounded by our 500-acre working farm nestled on the banks of the Brazos river here in Central Texas.

The Central Jersey Woodworkers Association (CJWA) is a growing group of woodworkers of various skill levels and interests, who meet monthly to trade ideas, share tips, and listen to various speakers. Various hands-on comparisons of equipment have been offered and there are periodic group purchases of equipment, wood, tools, and supplies

I've been a professional woodcarver, author and teacher of woodcarving for nigh on 30 years, and am a member of the Master Carvers Association. I bring my enthusiasm, experience and knowledge of carving to this website: helping you learn to carve, or develop good, competent woodcarving skills. I want to support your carving path and progress, and rejoice in the beautiful carvings you can create.

The woodworking school that focuses on traditional craftsmanship with hand tools. Started in 1978 by Drew Langsner. In many Country Workshops woodworking classes, instruction begins by splitting a freshly felled hardwood log, a traditional method sometimes called “green woodworking.” Air-dried, milled lumber is also used when appropriate. Project work is often done with a drawknife and spokeshave while seated at a shaving horse. We also teach the skills of wood turning, wood bending, carving and hewing with axes and adzes.

Fine furniture making courses

The core of my work is the production of wattle sheep hurdles. Pleasing to the eye, these hurdles not only make practical wind firm fencing but are also perfect for decorative screening. As well as wattle hurdles I also make functional objects including distinctive rustic chairs, perfect for the patio or conservatory, rose arches, trellis work and many other products. All my products are hand crafted from Hazel. They are adaptable and can be created in various styles and sizes to meet your own particular requirements.

The woodworking tools and techniques I use are many centuries old. All the items I make bear the marks of my hand tools. The quiet of my shop is reminicent of a pre-industrial country woodshop. Like 18th century woodworkers I use safe, non-toxic finishes that protect your health, my health and the health of our planet.

Gary Rogowski is the director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio, the center for tradition based woodworking classes in the Pacific Northwest. The Northwest Woodworking Studio is dedicated to teaching the art and the craft of woodworking. We welcome people of all abilities and backgrounds to come and use their hands and eyes and hearts in one of our most basic pursuits: building.

Don Weber is a woodworker and furniture restorer with over twenty-five years experience in furniture making, repair and restoration. He has been building English regional-style (Windsor) furniture for the last fifteen years. As a member of the Society of Workers in Early Arts & Trades and the Association of Pole Lathe Turners, he has endeavored to keep the Early Woodland Crafts alive through teaching and demonstrating.

A small school founded on the teachings of James Krenov

Specializing in Windsor chairs and hand made traditional furniture. Jeff Trapp offers a 5-day sackback Windsor chairmaking class

At John Lloyd Fine Furniture we are dedicated to the highest quality in design, craftsmanship and customer service. Furniture making, with individual, bespoke pieces designed and made to order. Antique furniture restoring to exacting standards. We employ the finest traditional techniques of craftsmanship in our cabinetmaking, furniture restoration and French polishing in order to deliver the highest standards possible.

Marc Adams School of Woodworking is committed to fine woodworking excellence through hands-on learning experiences with the best woodworkers of modern time.

We specialize in a very limited number of reproductions and copies of 18th century American furniture, particularly in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Pennsylvania German styles. Our online catalog lists an extensive line of finishing supplies from exotic material as Dragon's Blood and Copals to many grades and kinds of shellac flakes,natural dyes (logwood, brazilwood, cutch and sumac extracts), aniline dyes (water, alcohol and oil soluble), NGRs and the new light fast dyes, to name only a few. Olde Mill also continues a decade-plus of dedication to offering educational opportunities to those seriously interested in furthering their woodworking knowledge.

Founded in 1970, Peters Valley is located within the scenic, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area along the Delaware River. We are in the northwest corner of New Jersey, where NY, NJ & PA meet. The campus is a rural setting with a wooded landscape, just 2 hours north of Philadelphia and only 60 miles northwest of NYC. Public Transportation from NYC is available.

All classes offered by the Workshop are hands on and each technique is carefully demonstrated for the student. The class size is small for close, personal attention. All classes emphasize hand tool skills. Tod Herrli is the instructor and owner and has been teaching and lecturing for several years. He has conducted demonstrations for various chapters of the Mid West Tool Collector’s Association, private clubs, museums, and guilds such as the Western Ohio Woodworkers of Dayton, The Wisconsin Woodworkers of Milwaukee and the Tri-State Woodworkers of New Harmony Indiana. Tod was featured in the Indiana State Museum’s "Tools of the Trade" exhibit in Indianapolis during 1997. This exhibit featured him as modern plane maker reproducing 18th century tools as were on display by the museum.

Your hand tool coach

A working museum building superior-quality utilitarian furniture with only the tools, techniques, and finishes of the 1800s.

This site is dedicated to our use of the art and craft of green woodworking.

Ted Harlan has years of experience producing quality woodworking across a range of disciplines. From furniture to fixturing, there is no challenge too great and no creative problem too tough.

The School of Classical Woodcarving provides the opportunity to learn or improve fine hand carving skills from the best teacher in the United States.

Chair making courses are run throughout the year. Over five days students convert wood from a freshly felled tree into an elegant chair. Windsor chairmaking is very accessible, and no previous experience is necessary in order to successfully complete a course.

We shall look at the different types of tools used for working wood, and for clamping and holding it while you are working on it. You will learn how to sharpen and generally look after your tools. As a sideline we shall show you how to sharpen other woodworking tools such as plane irons, panel saws, and anything else you would like to bring in. Other subjects touched on will include some of the history of woodcarving, design copying and tracing, laminating, stone carving, stone selection, stone carving tools, gold and silver leaf work, elements of woodturning.