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WoodWorks seminars and hands-on workshops are two hours long and taught by accomplished professionals who put their heart, soul and reputation into every class. We cover a broad range of topics, providing how-to information along with useful techniques designed to improve your results, further your skills and stretch your vision of woodworking.
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Crazy Sharp Andy Rae Learn why “sharp” is essential for making good cuts and how you get there. Andy demonstrates sharpening techniques and the correct sequence of steps that lets anyone master this fundamental technique. See what a truly sharp edge looks like and why it lasts longer between re-sharpening. Discover what sharpening tools and supplies you need (and what you don’t), how to prepare and hone your chisels and plane irons with edges to a mirror polish and razor sharp.
Secret Drawers, Hidden Compartments and Locking Mechanisms Charles Bender Secret drawers and hidden compartments have long been a part of furniture making, adding intrigue and extra dimensions to the work. Often associated with traditional furniture, it’s easy to incorporate the same features in any furniture style from contemporary to experimental. In this informative class with Charles, you’ll see how to make secret drawers and hidden compartments, a variety of locking mechanisms and learn how to build them into your next project.
Inlay Techniques Garrett Hack Inlaying bandings, fine string lines, or larger solid wood (or bone or silver) pieces into your furniture can be a wonderful way to enhance and add value to it. Learn
how the basic inlay technique to cut a groove or recess is done and to make the inlay and size it to fit. Garrett demonstrates inlaying, makes a few useful tools for this work (and lots more besides), and discusses ways to use these decorative details in your designs.
The Bandsaw: Blasting Beyond the Basics Paul Anthony If you spend any time at the bandsaw, you know how well it cuts curves and roughs out stock. You probably realize that it’s capable of much more, but may not know how to make this incredibly versatile machine perform optimally. Paul teaches you how. You’ll learn how to resaw veneers, bookmatch panels, cut curved drawer fronts and compound curves for cabriole legs, make joints, create perfect circles and arcs, and how to duplicate identical curved parts.
Basic Veneering Bill Hull The ability to work with veneer is a useful skill that will enhance and add new dimensions to all your woodworking projects. This foundation level seminar will introduce you to working with veneer, allowing you to make sound choices of substrates, glues, panel balancing and methods of pressing. Bill covers how to purchase and store veneer, seaming leaves and assembling faces, basic matching techniques, and sanding will also be discussed.
The Art of the Lidded Box Matthew Hill Making an end grain lidded box with a snug fitting lid is Matthew’s focus in this step-by-step demonstration, but you learn how to make them too. He starts with a discussion on wood selection, the fundamental consideration. Tool selection, profiling and sharpening are covered, and techniques to create your own tools. Creating detail using: spindle gouge, skew chisels, shear scraper, hollowing tools are explained. You’ll also learn how to eliminate the problem of torn grain.
Turbo Charge Your Router Andy Rae Unleash your router by routing “smart”. Andy discusses choosing useful and unique router bits to buying and building router accessories and jigs. Learn about clever devices you can make. Properly equipped, your “souped-up” power tool will shape curves and flatten surfaces; smooth difficult woods without tear out; produce dead-accurate mortises, dovetails and other joints; cut intricate inlay patterns on the fly; rout precisely identical parts; mill custom-sized dowels from the wood of your choice and so much more.
Assembling Panels and Tabletops Garrett Hack Again and again, we glue boards together to make wide tabletops, case sides, panels. and, in the case of flashy grain patterns, the only way to make wide panels. They are more stable and less expensive. The challenge is how to make a panel with pleasing aesthetics and excellent joints between the boards. Garrett explains jointing edges with a plane, what hollow joints are all about, gluing and clamping technique and how to flatten panels too wide for your planer.
Decorative Veneering Bill Hull This seminar explores many of the decorative uses of veneer, including curved panels, diamond matches, sunburst tops, edging techniques, crossbanding, stringing, and parquetry. Bill focuses on vacuum press techniques that open up a wide range of possibilities and can be done in any home shop. He discusses construction methods and visual results possible with veneering that are not practical with solid wood. A thorough understanding of basic veneering is recommended.
Mastering Your Table Saw Frank Klausz Many woodworkers believe table saws are the most important tool in a shop, so if you aren’t getting the most from yours, Frank will teach you how. Beginning with proper set-up, he explains how to safely and efficiently produce clean, accurate cuts. He’ll cover dadoing, ripping, rabbeting, cross cutting and other woodworking operations. Frank discusses important features to look for when buying your saw, which blades work best, and how to outfit your saw with the best accessories and jigs.
Adding Curves to Your Work Garrett Hack As your skills evolve you’ll want to add curved elements in your work, some of which are easier to make and use. How do you design pleasing curves, loft them full size, make patterns, and then go about making them? Garrett discusses three common methods and their advantages and disadvantages: steam bending, laminating and cutting parts out of solid stock. He also offers tricks for the next step -- working with curved parts and joining them together.
Lamination, Demystifying the Process Garrett Hack Lamination is a great technique for creating strong, light, consistent, and stable curved parts. Garrett covers the entire lamination process from lifting a curve from a drawing, to making a form, sawing thin laminations, gluing and clamping, and finally truing and sizing the laminated part. He also discusses the advantages of lamination over other methods, dealing with different woods, glue choices, form designs, clamps vs. vacuum bag, and a few unusual lamination methods such as tapered, partial, and hybrids.
Three Essential Power Tools for Beginners Charles Bender Want to get started doing woodworking projects but feel confused about the different types of equipment needed and your budget is limited? Charles is the problem-solver for you. In this useful class, he covers three essential tools to buy first: table saw, bandsaw and the router and what to look for when shopping to buy them. You’ll learn about jigs you can make and how using these foundation tools means there isn’t much a beginner can’t do.
Essential Woodshop Sharpening Paul Anthony Sharp tools make all the difference in woodworking. Whether you’re paring or chopping with a chisel, smoothing with a plane or scraper, sawing dovetails, marking out joints, or shaping on the lathe, you’ll be quicker and more accurate working with razor sharp tools. Paul covers the basic approaches you’ll need to move into finer woodworking and how to put together a basic complement of sharpening tools and supplies to suit your particular needs and budget. This class is essential.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Make a Honey Dipper Matthew Hill This workshop gets you on a lathe quickly and safely as Matthew
shows you how to use turning tools like gouges and parting tools, rough out a blank, adjust the turning speed and then how to turn a simple project, a honey dipper. He also covers a wide range of practical information that gives you the ability to cut grooves, sand and finish, separate the ends and you’ll go home with new skills and a brand new honey dipper. Class size limited to 8.
Make a Mahogany Tissue Box Cover Frank Klausz Frank demonstrates his world renowned artistry for making hand cut dovetails as part of the joinery for this project, then he shows how the joints fit together to create the box cover. After that, it’s your turn to pick up a saw. You’ll begin by marking dovetails using Frank’s simple method then it’s time to clamp the work and get sawing. Class size limited to 8.
Make Your Own Bandsaw Box Geoffrey Noden Get your hands on the bandsaw under Geoffrey’s watchful eye. He’ll walk you through the procedure for quickly cutting and finishing a lidded bandsaw box and you’ll not only keep the finished box, but also the knowledge of how to make if safely. You’ll see several variations on the design to spark your creativity in making your own boxes and you’ll probably pick up a few pointers on general bandsaw techniques as well. Class size limited to 8.
Making Decorative Details Garrett Hack In this workshop with Garrett, you’ll cut a variety of alluring and unique details using a simple tool you make. The tool is a scratchstock (steel, filed to shape and held in a wooden fence). After making your own scratchstock you’re ready to try making side beads, raised beads known as cockbeads, which are used to highlight the edge of a drawer, and fine inlay lines, known as strings. You’ll learn about other edge details like chamfers and bevels too. Class size limited to 8.
Make a Hickory Stool Geoffrey Noden Geoffrey’s workshop is all fun as you learn how to use inexpensive hand tools to make a simple footstool. First, you’ll watch Geoffrey go through the entire assembly process as he shows you how to work “green”(wet) wood to form the legs and seat base and then weave a seat from the inner bark of hickory trees. After that, you make your own stool to take home and enjoy forever. Class size limited to 6.
FULL SHOW PASS Good for one day or the entire weekend. No seminar ticket purchase required. Online: $9 (SAVE $3) On Site: $12 With Coupon: $11 (SAVE $1)
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ONE-DAY PASS No seminar or hands-on workshop purchase required.
Online: $8 (SAVE $2) On Site: $10
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GIFT PASS Need a special gift for your favorite woodworker? Any seminar, hands-on workshop or Box Sets may be purchased in advance for your loved one or friend.
BOX SETS Box sets are only available for online/advance orders. Limit one package per customer. Box set "A": $125 (2 seminar tickets + 1 full show pass), (SAVE $57) Box set "B": $160 (3 seminar tickets + 1 full show pass), (SAVE $107) Box set "C": $165 (1 hands-on workshop ticket + 1 seminar ticket + 1 full show pass), (SAVE $57) Box set "D": $190 (2 hands-on workshops + 1 full show pass), (SAVE $72) Box set "E": $300 (6 seminar tickets + 2 full show passes), (SAVE $234)
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Class sizes are limited. Show passes are non-refundable. Seminar and workshop cancellations are subject to a $10 processing fee. 100% refund if cancelled by WoodWorks / Three Willows Productions, LLC.
