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Craft your own contemporary and minimalist side table, constructed using oak and classic half-lap joints Woodworking is an age-old craft and one of the most versatile skills. With some woodworking know-how and the right tools, you can create anything. Do you have a picture in your head of the perfect piece of furniture for your home, the one piece...

This workshop will help you build your own self-powered ride – an old school, hardwood pintail longboard skateboard. A longboard is perfect for cruising around and honing your carving skills. And you’ll get bragging rights when someone asks you where you bought your sweet board. This workshop is an excellent exercise in the core woodworking skills...

Guitar Maker and woodworker Bill Sterling will lead this exciting new class. Students will build their own Ukulele from start to finish, and leave with an instrument they can play for years to come. This is a great chance for students to try making musical instruments while learning fundamental woodworking skills in the shop.  This opportunity...

Come learn the incredibly satisfying craft of green wood spoon carving. Starting with locally sourced logs, we will evaluate what makes good ‘spoon wood,’ where it comes from, and how to split a blank from a larger piece. Spoon carving is a great way to learn about wood technology—the structure of wood, how it wants to be cut, and the characteristics...

We will lead a class introducing students to the principles of lofting a boat. Lofting a boat is the process by which boat dimensions are drawn to full scale on the lofting floor. From these two dimensional drawings, molds and patterns can be made to build a boat. Students will share in the full scale layout of a traditional boat up to 12 feet in...

Join us for this one day build of a live edge table. Live edge pieces are unique in that their construction does not take away from the wood's original shape and natural appearance. Each student will get to pick a flitch of locally harvested and kiln dried hardwood, then use draw knives, sanders, and other hand tools to remove any bark and smooth...

Students are invited to join shipwright Wayne Ford to enhance their skills and home tool kit as they create their own custom hand plane. Participants will start with a block of wood and mill out the various wooden parts to hold the plane iron and adjusting mechanism. The wooden body will then be shaped to the student's preference. By the end of the...

Join woodworker and instructor Wayne Ford for this hands-on build of a functional woodworking workbench. Students will learn design principles and joinery techniques as they interpret a drawing. Discussion during the class will cover bench vice selection and installation, additional optional bench features, and custom sizing of the piece.  The...

This workshop will include the materials and supplies to create a small cheese cutting board and a larger charcuterie board or cutting board made of different species of wood. This will be a two day workshop in which the first day will be picking out your wood, designing your pattern, squaring up the pieces and gluing them overnight. The next day...

Spend the day on the Rondout Creek learning woodworking at the Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School! During this introductory woodworking class, students will use a lathe to create two of their own wooden pens. Participants will learn wood prep, turning and pen assembly. No prior woodworking or turning experience is necessary. This class...

Join woodworker and instructor Wayne Ford for this hands-on build of a functional woodworking workbench. Students will learn design principles and joinery techniques as they interpret a drawing.  Discussion during the class will cover bench vice selection and installation, additional optional bench features, and custom sizing of the piece. ...

Join instructor Wayne Ford at the Hudson River Maritime Wooden Boat School to build your own Tool Tote. It will be built using dovetail joinery at the corners and finished to with your own details on the handle and ends. Wayne will walk you through the process of milling your pats to shape and cutting the dovetails. The joinery will be cut both by...

Try your hand at this historic stringed instrument! This small guitar is made with a wooden cigar box as the resonator. In just one day you can build your own working cigar box guitar. Materials fee to be paid directly to the school on the first day of class

One of the more useful tools in a woodworkers tool box is a mallet; a tool that is bound to save your chisels from that steel hammer!  Starting with blocks of hard wood, we will cut, assemble, and finish pieces to fashion a traditional woodworker's mallet. If you are doing a bunch of chiseling youll certainly need a bench hook as well to pair!...

Our instructor will be giving a workshop on the art of Kumiko. During this workshop, students will build a Kumiko trivet and learn to make the asanoha pattern, also termed the hemp leaf pattern. Kumiko is a Japanese technique of assembling wooden pieces without the use of nails.Thinly slit wooden pieces are grooved, punched and mortised, and then...