Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking, Woodworking Classes, Woodworking Courses, A place to Learn Woodworking - A hands-on woodworking school in Manchester, Connecticut, offering classes in furniture making, woodcarving, woodturning, furniture finishing and related crafts and artistic pursuits.

Classes are conducted in a variety of formats to suit the unique needs of our students. They include one or two day weekend classes, series classes that meet one or two nights per week for 4 to 12 weeks, week-long intensive classes and more.

Our staff of instructors possess a wide variety of skills and interests but an intense passion for the subject they are teaching is common to them all. Whether it is a woodturning class with Al Czellecz, a furniture making class with the school’s director, Bob Van Dyke, or a class on cabriole legs with Phil Lowe, students are assured of thoroughly learning the skills in a relaxed hands-on atmosphere.

Projects and classes range from the Shaker hall table to cherry or mahogany bowls and plates; the Newport tea table to Greene and Greene blanket chests; tool sharpening to timber framing, kayak building and more.