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.
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Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking Instructors:
Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking (CVSW) attracts some of the best instructors in the country.
Weekend and specialty classes include everything from a one night sharpening class with Bob Van Dyke to a 5 weekend class with Will Neptune making an Eliphalet Chapin CT valley lowboy in cherry.
CVSW is proud to host frequent, regular classes with nationally known craftsmen and instructors such as Phil Lowe, Steve Latta, Will Neptune and more. These offer a mixture of single weekend skill building classes and multi-weekend project classes.
Classes with Phil Lowe have included carving a cabriole leg, using traditional hand tool skills, while project classes have featured a Queen Anne style tea table or lowboy, to a serpentine front chest of drawers.
Will Neptune’s classes include the best table saw joinery class you can imagine, cutting dovetails every which way but normal, to advanced projects like a Chippendale piecrust table, a Chapin side chair or a veneered Seymour work table.
Steve Latta brings his own unique approach to techniques such as veneering and inlays in the Federal style, along with teaching a quick, practical way of cutting dovetails on the table saw and doing string inlay using his own design for an extremely effective scratch stock.
Director: Bob Van Dyke
After 18 years as an award-winning chef in French restaurants Bob left the business to begin a career in woodworking and teaching.
Cory Anderson
Corey has been assisting and teaching wood turning at CVSW for about 10 years.
Clete Boothby
Clete is a member of the Central Ct Woodturners as well as the American Association of Woodturners.
Mickey Callahan
Mickey has more than 25 years of experience as a designer and maker of museum-quality, fine custom period and contemporary furniture.
Matt Cianci
Matt is a professional hand saw sharpener, hand tool woodworker and saw enthusiast who has been using and sharpening hand saws since 2002.
Al Czellecz
Al has taken woodturning way beyond the everyday "round and brown".
Scott Dixon
Scott has been instrumental to the development of the kits, tool selection and the teaching methods for all the instructors in The U.S Guitar Kits Teacher program.
Peter Follansbee
Peter lives in Kingston, Massachusetts, in an early 19th-century house and works as a joiner at the Plimoth Plantation.
Peter Galbert
Before specializing in chairs, Peter Galbert worked as a cabinet and furniture maker in New York City.
Glen Huey
Glen Huey was born and raised in Ohio. After graduating from the University of Cincinatti...
Matt Kenney
Matt Kenney taught philosophy before he started working as an associate editor at Fine Woodworking.
Steve Latta
Steve Latta has been a professional furniture and cabinetmaker for nearly three decades and teaches woodworking at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster, Pa.
Phil Lowe
Phil Lowe has been involved with woodworking since 1968 and is the author of many articles in Fine Woodworking magazine.
Teri Masaschi
Teri's career in antique restoration, furniture building and furniture finishing began as a fourteen year old apprentice to a Fine Arts Dealer in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Mary May has been carving wood for over 20 years.Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller turned to designing and making furniture after a career as a classical musician.
Will Neptune
Will Neptune is a furniture maker and master-carver working in the Boston area.
Darrell Peart
Darrell Peart resides in Seattle Washington and started his career making and selling small wooden items at Seattle's Pike Place Market.
Mike Pekovich
Mike Pekovich studied both furniture making and graphic design in college and is Art Director for FineWoodworking magazine.
Kevin Rodel
Kevin Rodel has over 30 years experience building and designing fine custom furniture.
Walt Scadden
Walter trained as a stonecutter at the Art Development Program for Youth at the Hartford, CT Wadsworth Atheneum.
Nick Schade
Guillemot Kayaks was created by Nick Schade in 1993 to share the kayak designs he created for his own use.
Doug Smith
Doug Smith founded Douglass Yankee Craftsman 10 years ago to satisfy his desire to produce fine quality handcrafted wood products.
Chris Schwarz
Christopher Schwarz is a long-time woodworker and writer who has spent the last 15 years encouraging woodworkers to embrace more handwork in their shops.
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3/12/2012
Bob,
The SAPFM meeting on Saturday was excellent. The presentations were very interesting.
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Bob,
Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the recently completed Fundamentals of Furniture Making class this week.
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