General Furniture Construction class
September 15 - 19, 2025
This two-day class will be an in-depth study of many of the handmade furniture construction techniques used to build pieces of American furniture. With a handful of joints needed with a mix of modern machinery and time proven hand tools to show you many of the material and time saving methods we have used from our 5th generation woodworking shop. You will execute many of the joinery techniques needed to produce most of our country's finest pieces. You will also learn many different techniques we use to embellish these same pieces. With a continuing family business of over 100 years of building and restoring period furniture we have many time saving methods along with help to hone your joinery skills. We will send you a tool list so you can bring your own tools to add to a perfect week of period furniture construction and embellishment but if you don't have that certain tool don't worry you can use ours with previous notice. Mon - Thur: 8 - 4, Fri 8 - 3
Cost: $1450
Hand Cut Dovetails
Learn General Case Construction
Learn General Case Construction
Learn the tricks of cutting and fitting dovetails. We will cover through dovetails, half blind dovetails, and sliding dovetails. These three types of dovetails should cover most of your dovetailing needs.
Learn General Case Construction
Learn General Case Construction
Learn General Case Construction
There many different methods of holding two pieces of wood together. Learn what joint to use where and when.
Mortise and Tenon Construction
Learn General Case Construction
Come learn Period Embellishment
Mortise and tenons are used in table construction. You will also see them on door construction plus many other circumstances.
Come learn Period Embellishment
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
Come learn Period Embellishment
There are many different ways to add embellishments. we will cover both Federal embellishments like inlays and also Chippendale embellishments like hand carvings.
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
We have many time saving and construction secrets from operating our family business since 1918 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Learn Paneled Door Joinery
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
Many Secrets to share form our 100-Year-old Family Business
With door construction we will show you mortise and tenon construction with coped corners and raised panels.