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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...

Foundations of Woodworking: Woodworking Tools - Their Use & Care In this second class of the Foundations of Woodworking series, students will learn about the tools in a basic woodworking kit, including layout tools, saws, chisels, and planes.  Each tool will be examined, its use and proper handling demonstrated, tool maintenance including...

This class will introduce students to the history of wood carving and its use in contemporary sculpture. The techniques used to shape the wood will be examined, the practical aspects of using and sharpening the tools, selecting the size, volume and type of wood to carve, as well as finishing of the surface of the artwork. Students will have a completed...

In the third course of Foundations of Woodworking, students will learn the basics of hand joinery, using hand tools to create a variety of woodworking joints. This class will provide an excellent foundation for woodworking projects at home or more advanced woodworking classes. Prerequisite: Foundations of Woodworking: Woodworking Tools - Their Use...

In this Foundations of Woodworking session, students will learn how to safely handle tools and machinery in a shop setting. The class will include information on the different types of machinery and their uses, safe shop practices including: use of eye and ear protection, emergency protocols, and advice for setting up a home shop. This class is...

Keep warm this winter with your very own self-made storage rack to hold your firewood and kindling. Firewood racks keep wood accessible and off the ground and help reduce your supply's risk of moisture and pests.  In this hands-on class, students will gain new skills measuring, cutting, and assembling a wooden structure to stack logs and kindling...

This 2-day course is designed for students who seek experience in building timber frame structures. Participants will learn and assist in the construction of a square rule, post-and-beam timber frame structure on the HRMM campus.  The group will construct mortise and tenon joints and join the structural frames. This course is suitable...

Join Janice Meltzer in a basic 7-step class in caning seats: using a stool kit, we will learn about soaking cane and weaving it in a traditional pattern.  This process can be applied to canoe seats as well as chairs! Students will have the option of bringing in their own chair or canoe seat to recane. If students are bringing their own piece of...

Introducing our first advanced course within the Foundations of Woodworking series. Students will build upon earlier lessons which included basic joinery, machine operation, tool use, and shop safety. Participants will focus on hand- and machine-cut dovetail joints as well as machine-cut mortise and tenon joints. This is an excellent course for people...

Join us for this unique and fascinating class as you learn to cut, bend, and tack your own oval Shaker boxes and peg and glue in the bottom and top. Each student will make four different sized boxes to take home, each box will be built from a different species of wood. A brief history of the shaker box will be discussed on the first day and the boxes...

Join us for this unique and fascinating class as you learn to cut, bend, and tack your own Shaker oval carriers and glue and peg in the bottom and handles. Each student will make three different sized carriers to take home.  A brief history of the Shaker box will be discussed on the first day and the carriers will be started. The carriers will...

Do you have knives, chisels, or other tools that just aren’t cutting it? Learn how to put an edge fine enough to shave hair back on your tools. Students will learn about the geometry of a cutting edge, various methods of sharpening tools, and how to take old worn out files and make them into knives. Students will gain hands on experience sharpening...

This course will teach half hull model carving using basic carving tools and woodworking skills. Half hulls were originally used by boat builders to study and refine the hull form of a vessel prior to full size construction. In this class each student will carve a half hull of their own from the lines drawing of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater....

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...