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Nancy Hiller Memorial Lecture, May 24

Join via Zoom (if you can’t make it to Bloomington in person) at 6 p.m. Eastern on May 24, for the 2024 Rosemary Miller Lecture, this year celebrating the life and work of Nancy Hiller (1959-2022). Duncan Campbell will speak about Nancy and her deep commitment to historic preservation, her superb writing and woodworking, and…

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Types of Cabinet Backs

The following is excerpted from Vol. IV of “The Woodworker, The Charles H. Hayward Years, The Shop & Furniture.” This fourth book in our “Woodworker” series covers three different topics: 1) The Workshop, including the design and construction of workbenches, tool chests and wall cabinets. There’s also an entire section devoted to “appliances,”which are workshop…

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2 new Chair Classes are Live in 10…9…8

If you, too, would like to get bunny ears from Chris while making a chair in our shop, log in to our ticketing site at noon (Eastern) today. Signups go live for:

Build an Irish Armchair with Christopher Schwarz (Aug. 12-16)

and

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London Woodworking Festival & 2 Classes in the U.K.

I find this difficult to believe…but it must be true. Chris and I have never flown to a place to teach concurrent classes. Or flown concurrently to different places to teach classes. But it is finally happening: Chris and I are both presenting at the London International Woodworking Festival (London, England – not London, Ky.)…

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Arms for a Stick Chair

The following is excerpted from “The Stick Chair Book,” by Christopher Schwarz. “The Stick Chair Book” is divided into three sections. The first section, “Thinking About Chairs,” introduces you to the world of common stick chairs, plus the tools and wood to build them. The second section – “Chairmaking Techniques” – covers every process involved…

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