Practical Design
Will it last, and is it beautiful? Get a handle on these two questions, moving beyond plans to make your own designs. The course integrates both major aspects of design work: sound construction and pleasing aesthetics. We'll discuss the basics of sound construction, from material choices through joinery and finishes, answering common questions such as "is a biscuit joint strong enough for a table leg?" We'll also discuss what makes something beautiful, or not. You'll learn how to sketch your ideas, make shop drawings and scale models. Bring drawings, models or photos of your own.

The Wayward Ways of Wood Grain
Yes, wood technology can be interesting. Ever have problems with wood movement, cracking warping, shrinking or expanding? Ever have a joint break for seemingly no good reason? Ever have a perfectly smooth board look crummy after a finish was applied, either blotching or showing machine marks? Know how to get rid of dents without sanding? The course covers it all and more.

Country-style Trestle Table
Make a knock-down trestle table in a weekend using inexpensive wood and basic hand and power tools. Without sweating the details, you'll go home with a handsome, slightly rough table of any size from dining room to side table size.

The Right Joint for the Job
Expand your joinery vocabulary, learning to cut half-blind dovetails, mitered-end dovetails, mortise-and tenons, bridle joints, mitered lap joint, and wedged mortise-and-tenon joint and two other useful and beautiful joints of your chosing. Class will be divided between demonstrations and time to practice cutting your own joints.

Frame and Panel Construction
One of the basic components of cabinetry is the frame and panel. This unit of construction is used in hundreds of different types of furniture, from cabinet sides and backs to doors. In this course, you'll make a frame and panel by hand, learning to chop, saw, fit and peg a mortise and tenon joint, mold the frame edges and plane a panel to fit. This course is also an excellent way to learn basic handtool methods.

Plywood Carcase Construction
Learn strategies for making plywood boxes quickly and easily, using traditional and space age tools. Course covers processing sheet goods, sheet good joinery, solid wood and veneer edging, adjustable shelf pin holes, hardware and finishes.

Candlebox project
Make a small candle box with dovetails or finger joints and a sliding top, using hand tools or power tools.

Fundamentals of Woodworking
This course will give you an overview of the basics of working wood. It will be partly lecture and demonstration and partly hands on. In the first segment, you'll learn about wood as a material--it's structure, it's strengths and weaknesses and how to work it without headaches. In the second segment, you'll learn about the basic handtools and their best uses, including handsaws, chisels, planes and drills. In the third segment, you'll learn the best (and most safe) uses of the major power tools, including jointer/planer, tablesaw, and bandsaw.

Setting Up a Shop
Thinking of building, expanding or improving your shop or tools, take this course and get some good advice. Course covers everything from wiring and lighting to heating and tool choices, but has a large question and answer segment to address any particular issues that you have.

Stacking Bookcase Project
This course will give you plans and guidance to build one case of an attractive, strong stacking bookcase. You can build and stack up to five or six of them. The case is dovetailed, with a mitered end detail. Simple cleats on the bottoms and mortises on the tops secure the cases when stacked. You'll also have the option of making handles and a lid for transportation or storage. Based on a bookcase design used by Thomas Jefferson.