Hardwood Spatula Workshop
Our 7 week Hand Tool Skill Building Series ends with a class in Shaping Wood. It is an excellent way to learn about grain direction and curved work. Here you can see some of the hardwood spatulas that participants made as they honed their shaping skills using spokeshaves and other hand tools. Use the subscribe area to the right to sign up for updates on upcoming classes. We are considering offering this 6 week series on Friday afternoons this Fall (Nov-Dec.) The six weeks cover the following skills: Sharpening Chisels Sharpening and Tuning Hand Planes Dovetail Joints...
Read MoreBuilding Hand Tool Skills
We are half way through our six-week Thursday hand tool skill building series. In the first two sessions, participants learned to sharpen chisels and planes. In the 3rd session, instrument maker Martin Macica taught the principles of hand-cut dovetail joinery using traditional methods and tools. The class consists of both beginners and experienced woodworkers looking to add some techniques to their repertoire. Jeff Kadlic, who owns his own guitar making company Champtone Guitars, participated in the first two weeks of these classes to learn more about sharpening edge tools by hand....
Read MoreSummer 2014 Workshop Schedule
We have many new classes coming up this summer including several opportunities to cut dovetails by hand. Our Thursday afternoon workshop series begins on June 12th with a hand-on chisel sharpening class. We also have several new project classes, including a small Shaker-style end table and a one day shooting board class. All tools and materials are provided for our workshops. Use the Classes menu above for more detailed information or to...
Read More2014 Northeast Woodworkers Showcase (with Video)
Thanks to all who stopped by our booth at the NWA Northeast Woodworker’s Association Showcase in Saratoga Springs. Many thanks to the Ed Burke of the Saratogian for capturing some nice video of the demos and activity going on around our booth. (Note: That CNC router you hear in the background was not from our booth). There was also some nice photos in the Saratogian and Daily Gazette Be sure to check out our 2014 class schedule here at Maplewood We will be back at the 2014 Northeast Woodworkers Showcase this weekend in Saratoga Springs. This year, we will be...
Read MoreHand Plane Restoration Class (with slideshow and video)
Can an old rusty Stanley hand plane really be brought back to better-than-new condition in only a few hours? In our recent hand plane restoring class, fifteen woodworkers spent their Saturday cleaning, flattening and sharpening a plane that would become theirs to keep. By the end of the day, everyone was using these old Stanley #4 workhorses to raise panels, create roundovers, plane rough stock four-square and take shavings of less than one-thousandth of an inch. We spent the morning going through the three stages of restoring these Bailey pattern planes ranging from the...
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