We have a handful of new classes – including one from Welshman Chris Williams – to announce for the first half of 2025, tickets for which will be on sale at 10 a.m. Eastern on Sept. 16, 2024, on our ticketing site. • Build a Welsh-style Comb-back Chair with Christopher Schwarz, Jan. 13-17• Build a Dutch…
Read moreJoin Joshua Klein, author of “Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847)” and editor of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, for a tour of the Jonathan Fisher House in Blue Hills, Maine. It’s part of an all-day livestream event on Saturday, Sept., 21, during which Joshua will take you behind the scenes at…
Read moreWe’ve added a special class and spaces are available now: Learn How to Make Woodcuts with Rudy Everts. The class is Sunday, Nov. 24 and Monday, Nov. 25. Rudy, who is visiting from Munich, will also be filming a video on making a stick chair using nothing but feral green woodworking techniques, from log to…
Read moreOur storefront will be open the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 23. We will be selling our full line of books and tools, of course. But we will be on hand to answer your questions, give demos and talk about woodworking. And to ply you with cookies. And to show…
Read moreThe following is excerpted from “Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847),” by Joshua Klein. In this book, Klein (founder of Mortise & Tenon Magazine), examines what might be the most complete record of the life of an early 19th-century American craftsman. Using Fisher’s papers, his tools and the surviving furniture, Klein…
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