2 Days (one weekend) · $325 · Beginners Welcome 

Learn woodworking and upholstery while making a Mid Century Modern footstool designed by Victor Wilkins in this hands-on class. Designed for beginners and hobbyists, the course covers wood and fabric selection, joinery, upholstery techniques and you will go home with your own finished footstool.

Taught by Carolyn Racine, our VP of Continuing Education and a 2024 graduate of the SBWI Furniture Design Program. All materials are included; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Shane Mooney, woodworker and class of 2025 Furniture Design Graduate. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days · $850.00 · Experience levels

Learn how to make your own dining room table in this hands-on furniture making class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers design, material selection, joinery, and wood movement and you will go home with your own table sized for your space.

Taught by Dan Schruck, SBWI’s own Lead Artisan. All tools and materials are included. This is a partner class, Students should bring a friend partner to help with the project. If a partner is unavailable, we can help you get your table done.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Shane Mooney, woodworker and class of 2025 Furniture Design Graduate. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn how to use a band saw while making band saw box in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners, the course covers band saw set up, safety, box design, blade selection, assembly and finishing and prepares you to safely use your bandsaw in your own shop. Each student will design and build their own bandsaw box.

Taught by Steve Skornicka, SBWI board member. All tools and materials are provided. Students should bring a notebook and a lunch.

2 Days · $850.00 · Experience levels

Learn how to make your own dining room table in this hands-on furniture making class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers design, material selection, joinery, and wood movement and you will go home with your own table sized for your space.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, SBWI Furniture Design Graduate, and Red Seal Winner. All tools and materials are included. This is a partner class, Students should bring a friend partner to help with the project. If a partner is unavailable, we can help you get your table done.

5 days · $1275 · Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

Learn the secrets of veneer while making a number of projects including a stunning, highly-figured chessboard in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for all levels, the course covers selecting, cutting, seaming, matching, pressing, inlay, compound veneering, and much more, While giving you the confidence to use veneer like an artist.

Taught by Scott Grove, a master craftsman and veneer artist with 45+ years of experience. All tools and materials are provided; students should bring a notebook and some ideas.

2 days · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate 

Learn end grain gluing while making end grain cutting board in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers safety, design, planning, and finishing and prepares you to make functional and beautiful end-grain boards.

Taught by Steve McCarroll, 2024 Furniture Design graduate. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook and a sack lunch.

5 Days · $1400.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn chair making while making Windsor side chair, in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for all levels, the course covers green woodworking, hand tool use, steam bending, carving, sharpening and prepares you to make chairs on your own.

Taught by Luke Barnett, award-winning chair maker. all tools and materials are included, but your are welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring a notebook, comfortable shoes, and a warm jacket.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on joinery class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, woodworker and class of 2024 Furniture Design Graduate. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn how to frame your own art while making a custom picture frame in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for art lovers, artists, photographers, and beginning woodworkers the course covers miter joints, routers, glass cutting, and matting and prepares you to make your own frames.

Taught by Shane Mooney and Peter Densmore, graduates of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included. Students should bring their own artwork (maximum frame size must be 30" or less on any dimension). Students can also create a wood endgrain print during class.

2 Days · $425.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn how to build and use an axe from re-handling to hewing a log in this hand-tool woodworking class. Designed for traditional skills enthusiasts, timber framers, and anyone that wants to learn to care for and safely use an axe, the course covers handle shaping, head fitting, log hewing, and axe history and prepares you to use an axe with confidence and precision.

Taught by Ethan Higgins, owner of Roof Jumper Timber Frames. All tools and materials are included; students are welcome to bring their own axe head.

2 Days · $325.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn to design and build abstract forms in wood while making an artistically meaningful sculpture in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for artists, sculptors, the creatively curious, and those looking to deepen the “why” behind their craft, the course covers design process, creative feedback, collaborative brainstorming, and storytelling and prepares you to produce an object that informs, delights, or spurs conversation.

Taught by Alex Monte-Sano, an Ann Arbor-based artist whose work sits at the intersection of fine woodworking and data visualization. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook and comfortable clothing and a warm jacket.

Step into the world of round log timber framing, where the beauty of natural wood meets the precision of traditional joinery. Unlike conventional timber framing, this unique craft replaces square-sawn timbers with carefully de-barked logs, preserving their organic shape while integrating the structural integrity of timber frame joinery. The result is a striking hybrid of log building and timber framing, utilizing the natural form of the tree to create a beautifully sculptural structure.

2-days · $475.00 · Beginner

Learn timber frame joints while making a mailbox in this hands-on timber framing class. Designed for all levels or those who just need a new mailbox, the course covers material selection and you will go home with a ready to install mailbox.

Taught by Bob Goppold, timber framer and retired engineer. all tools and materials are included; students should bring outdoor clothing.

2-Day · $325.00 · Intermediate

Learn the techniques of turning and finishing a hollow vessel while making your own hollow vessel in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for intermediate woodturners, the course covers vessel design, safe hollowing methods, and various finishing techniques and prepares you to turn your own hollow vessels.

Taught by Greg Gallegos, woodturner and artist with 25 years of experience. All tools and materials are included.

6 days · $1275 · No experience needed 

Learn the art of timber framing while making full-size white oak pavilion in this hands-on post and beam class. Designed for all levels of student from people who never used a tool to the experienced home builder, the course covers how to read plans, layout using square rule, timber frame specific tools, cutting mortise and tenon joints cut mortise and tenon joints, assembly, rigging, raising and most importably, safety., and prepares you to build your own timber frame.

Taught by Ethan Higgins, owner of Roof Jumper Timber Frames. All tools and materials are included; students should bring work boots and outdoor clothing.

6 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner 

Learn the woodworking fundamentals while creating a side table and cutting boards in this hands-on class. Designed for beginners and the wood curious, the course covers safety, machine use, hand tools, joinery, lumber selection, and so much more. While preparing you to safely and efficiently take on woodworking as a hobby.

Taught by Carolyn Racine, ‘24 graduate of the Furniture Design program and VP of Continuing Education. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and coffee mug.

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate

Learn hand-cut joinery while making variety of woodworking joints in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for people interested in hand-tools and traditional wood joints, the course covers hand-tools, Dovetail, Half-blind Dovetail, Mortise and Tenon, Through Wedged Tenon, their strengths and weaknesses and how to implement them into furniture making and design. and prepares you to make rock-solid furniture in your own shop.

Taught by Zack Fealk, Head Instructor of the Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included, but you are more than welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and coffee mug .

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn Mid-Century Modern furniture techniques while making an iconic lounge chair inspired by Lawrence Peabody in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for artists, designs, and all-skill level of woodworkers, the course covers material selection, template routing, joinery, edge treatments and you will go home with your own hand-crafted lounge chair.

Taught by Dan Schruck, SBWI’s Lead Artisan. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and coffee mug.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Shane Mooney, woodworker and class of 2025 Furniture Design Graduate. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn how to use a band saw while making band saw box in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners, the course covers band saw set up, safety, box design, blade selection, assembly and finishing and prepares you to safely use your bandsaw in your own shop. Each student will design and build their own bandsaw box.

Taught by Steve Skornicka, SBWI board member. All tools and materials are provided. Students should bring a notebook and a lunch.

5 Days · $1375.00 · Intermediate, Advanced

Learn Stereotomy while making a complex, yet manageable, awning for over a doorway or window that is curved in three directions. This is a hands-on carpentry course designed for all levels, Novices will be assigned simpler timbers and vice-versa for advanced students. the course covers Understanding Stereotomy, Developing Comprehensive Stereotomical Plans, Double-Curvature Layouts: and prepares you to use compound curves in your own work.

Taught by Patrick Moore, internationally acclaimed carpenter and stereotomy master. All materials are included. A small tools list will be provided to the students ahead of time to be purchased before class. SBWI does have loaner tools available.

2 Days · $575.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn Stereotomy while making a a high-top patio table based on the German National Carpentry Team’s design. This is a hands-on practical stereotomy course designed carpenters, timber framers, woodworkers, and furniture makers. The course covers the German layout technique known as Schiftung, to manually draw out the design full-size, ensuring accurate angles and lengths for precise layout and prepares you to cut and use compound angles in your won work.

Taught by Patrick Moore, internationally acclaimed carpenter and stereotomy master. All materials are included. A small tools list will be provided to the students ahead of time to be purchased before class. SBWI does have loaner tools available.

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate 

Learn cabinetmaking while making and upper and lower kitchen cabinets in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for people who want to make their own cabinets, the course covers material selection, design, joinery, tools, hardware selection and install, finishing and prepares you to make cabinets in your own garage shop.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, ‘24 graduate of the Furniture Design Program and Red Seal Award Winner. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook, comfortable shoes and a water bottle.

6 Days · $1400.00 · Beginner, Intermediate 

Learn chair making while building a welsh stick chair in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for people who are interested in making chairs, the course covers material selection, seat carving, compound angles, mortise and tenon joints and prepares you to make chairs in your own shop.

Taught by Grace Ambrose, a chair maker and educator who learned to teach stick chairs from Christopher Schwarz of Lost Arts Press . All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook, comfortable shoes and a water bottle.

2 Days (one weekend) · $325 · Beginners Welcome 

Learn woodworking and upholstery while making a Mid Century Modern footstool designed by Victor Wilkins in this hands-on class. Designed for beginners and hobbyists, the course covers wood and fabric selection, joinery, upholstery techniques and you will go home with your own finished footstool.

Taught by Carolyn Racine, our VP of Continuing Education and a 2024 graduate of the SBWI Furniture Design Program. All materials are included; students should bring comfortable shoes.

5 Day (Monday-Wednesday) · $450.00 · Beginner

Learn to restore chair caning while making several projects. Designed for those who need to repair chairs, the course covers caning tools how to weave, proper tension, basic tools and materials.

Taught by Scott Holtz, Local Craftsman. All tools and materials are provided but you are welcome to bring your own turning tools; students should bring a notebook and comfortable shoes

6 Days · $1400.00 · Beginner, Intermediate 

Learn the basics of chair making while building 2 different types of stools in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginning chair makers, the course covers hand tool use, wood turning, joinery, methods of construction and prepares you to make stools in your own shop.

Taught by Zack Fealk, Lead Instructor of the Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own tools (a list will be provided); students should bring a notebook and a water bottle.

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn Mid-Century Modern furniture techniques while making an iconic lounge chair inspired by Lawrence Peabody in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for artists, designs, and all-skill level of woodworkers, the course covers material selection, template routing, joinery, edge treatments and you will go home with your own hand-crafted lounge chair.

Taught by Steve McCarroll, ‘24 Furniture Design Graduate, Founder of the Woodworking for Warriors program. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and coffee mug.

2 Day · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn the basics of bowl turning on the lathe while making side-grain and end-grain bowls including a lidded box in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for anyone curious about using the lathe to turn cups and bowls, the course covers lathe safety, wood preparation, bowl techniques, sharpening, and finishing and prepares you to create your own bowls on the lathe.

Taught by Peter Densmore, graduate of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included; students are welcome to bring their own tools.

5 Days · $1,275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn essential hand tool woodworking skills while making a Dutch Tool Chest in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for those who already own hand tools, and those who simply want to learn, the course covers material preparation, moulding and panel work, dovetail joinery, installing hardware, and finishing and prepares you for all your future hand tool creations.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, graduate of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook.

5 Days · $1,275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn the art of Midcentury Modern design and construction while making a custom MCM table in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for those who love MCM design and are interested in building custom furniture the course covers prototype model building, templates and template routing, woodshop machine use, basic joinery techniques, and finishes and prepares you to prototype and build your own designs.

Taught by Carolyn Racine, graduate of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook.

2 days · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate 

Learn end grain gluing while making end grain cutting board in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers safety, design, planning, and finishing and prepares you to make functional and beautiful end-grain boards.

Taught by Steve McCarroll, 2024 Furniture Design graduate. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook and a sack lunch.

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner 

Learn a wide variety of skills, from wood bending to dovetails and broom making while creating round oval boxes, a step stool, handbroom, and peg rail in this hands-on hand tool woodworking class. Designed for woodworkers of all levels and appreciators of Shaker Design the course covers hand tool joinery, wood bending, broom making, and finishing and prepares you to create Shaker-inspired designs of your own.

Taught by Zack Fealk, lead instructor of SBWI’s Furniture Design program and Peter Densmore, 2025 graduate. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook.

6 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner 

Learn the woodworking fundamentals while creating a side table and cutting boards in this hands-on class. Designed for beginners and the wood curious, the course covers safety, machine use, hand tools, joinery, lumber selection, and so much more. While preparing you to safely and efficiently take on woodworking as a hobby.

Taught by Shane Mooney, graduate of the Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook.

5-Day · $1,275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn the techniques of applying embellishments to wood turnings while making your own candlesticks, footstool and more in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for all levels of woodturners, the course covers tool selection, sharpening, safety, and a wide range of turning techniques and prepares you to turn and embellish your own creations.

Taught by Kimberly Winkle, woodturner and artist as well as Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. All tools and materials are included.

5-Day · $1,275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn the art of window and door construction while making historically accurate sash window and door in this hands-on preservation woodworking class. Designed for all levels of experience, the course covers hand tool techniques, joinery, molding planes, repair, and installation and prepares you to build your own windows and doors by hand.

Taught by Nathaneal Ulfers, Historical Preservationist and Timber Framer. All tools and materials are included.

2-Day · $325.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn the techniques of spindle and faceplate woodturning and adding finishing color and embellishment while making your own turned and painted footstool in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for all levels of woodturners, the course covers tool selection, sharpening, safety, and a wide range of turning techniques and prepares you to turn and embellish your own creations.

Taught by Kimberly Winkle, woodturner and artist as well as Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. All tools and materials are included.

2 Days · $325 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn to split (rive) wood using hand tools in order to make historic roofing, siding, and interior lath in this hands-on preservation woodworking class. Designed for historic home owners, preservation and green woodworking enthusiasts, and all levels of woodworkers the course covers reading wood grain, using a froe and club, and refining with a hatchet and drawknife and prepares you to work with green wood and restore historic features.

Taught by Nathaneal Ulfers, Historic Preservationist and Timber Framer. All tools and materials are included; students are welcome to bring their own hand tools.

3 Days · $625 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn how to determine the forces and loads of a traditional timber frame structure while making an experimental timber frame joint in this hands-on timber frame engineering class. Designed for new and experienced timber framers, the course covers timber frame joinery strengths and weaknesses and prepares you to design, test, and measure timber frame joinery.

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2 days (weekend) · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn woodturning while making mallets, bowls, and more in this hands-on lathe class. Designed for beginners, the course covers lathe use, terminology, material selection, tools, and spindle turning and bowl turning. This course prepares you to safely and efficiently make turned projects at home.

Taught by Peter Densmore, SBWI Furniture Design Graduate ‘24. All tools and materials are provided but you are welcome to bring your own turning tools; students should bring a notebook and comfortable shoes.

2 days · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate 

Learn end grain gluing while making end grain cutting board in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers safety, design, planning, and finishing and prepares you to make functional and beautiful end-grain boards.

Taught by Steve McCarroll, 2024 Furniture Design graduate. All tools and materials are included; students should bring a notebook and a sack lunch.

8-Day · $1600.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn the techniques of windsor chair building while making your own comb back rocking chair in this hands-on chair-making class. Designed for all levels of woodworkers and artists, the course covers tool riving wood, shaping, chair joinery, and prepares you to make your own windsor chairs.

Taught by Felix Bouchet, of Vallères, France, award winning chair maker. All tools and materials are included. Students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and a ton of motivation.

5 Day · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate

Learn bowl turning while making several bowls in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for woodworkers, woodturners, and artists, the course covers log selection, the bowl gouge, live edge bowls and prepares you to confidently make bowls on your own lathe.

Taught by Mark Gardner, acclaimed wood turner from North Carolina. All tools and materials are included, but you are welcome to bring your own turning tools for tune up and use; students should bring comfortable shoes, a water bottle and a notebook

2-days · $475.00 · Beginner

Learn timber frame joints while making a mailbox in this hands-on timber framing class. Designed for all levels or those who just need a new mailbox, the course covers material selection and you will go home with a ready to install mailbox.

Taught by Bob Goppold, timber framer and retired engineer. all tools and materials are included; students should bring outdoor clothing.

2 Days · $850.00 · Experience levels

Learn how to make your own dining room table in this hands-on furniture making class. Designed for beginners and intermediate, the course covers design, material selection, joinery, and wood movement and you will go home with your own table sized for your space.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, SBWI Furniture Design Graduate, and Red Seal Winner. All tools and materials are included. This is a partner class, Students should bring a friend partner to help with the project. If a partner is unavailable, we can help you get your table done.

5-days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate

Learn classical woodcarving while designing and carving a classical architectural element in this hands-on relief carving class. Designed for artists, preservationist, and woodworkers, the course covers sharpening, design, thinking in 3D, and carving and prepares you to use carving in your own projects.

Taught by Alexander Grabovetskiy, reknown Russian woodcarver . all materials are included; a tool list is provided in the course description for students to purchase ahead of class. SBWI does have loaner sets available.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn how to use a band saw while making band saw box in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for beginners, the course covers band saw set up, safety, box design, blade selection, assembly and finishing and prepares you to safely use your bandsaw in your own shop. Each student will design and build their own bandsaw box.

Taught by Steve Skornicka, SBWI board member. All tools and materials are provided. Students should bring a notebook and a lunch.

5 Days · $1400.00 · Intermediate.  

Learn sculptural woodworking while making an esherick inspired music stand in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for artists and woodworkers with a little bit of experience, the course covers shaping wood, creating smooth flowing curves, compound joinery and prepares you to level up your woodworking skills to tackle organic shapes and forms.

Taught by Luke Barnett, Founder and President of SBWI. All tools and materials are provided but you are welcome to bring you own tools; students should bring a notebook and a water bottle.

2 Days (one weekend) · $325 · Beginners Welcome 

Learn woodworking and upholstery while making a Mid Century Modern footstool designed by Victor Wilkins in this hands-on class. Designed for beginners and hobbyists, the course covers wood and fabric selection, joinery, upholstery techniques and you will go home with your own finished footstool.

Taught by Carolyn Racine, our VP of Continuing Education and a 2024 graduate of the SBWI Furniture Design Program. All materials are included; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Shane Mooney, woodworker and class of 2025 Furniture Design Graduate. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

5-days · $1275.00 · Beginner

Learn to upholster furniture while making several projects in this hands-on upholstery class. Designed for designers, artists, and furniture makers, the course covers materials, upholstery methods, welting, webbing, sewing and prepares you to build or repair upholstered furniture

Taught by Carolyn Racine, ‘24 Furniture Design graduate and VP of Continuing education. All tools and materials are provided; students should bring a notebook, and water bottle.

2 Day · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn the basics of bowl turning on the lathe while making side-grain and end-grain bowls including a lidded box in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for anyone curious about using the lathe to turn cups and bowls, the course covers lathe safety, wood preparation, bowl techniques, sharpening, and finishing and prepares you to create your own bowls on the lathe.

Taught by Peter Densmore, graduate of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included; students are welcome to bring their own tools.

7-Days · $1800.00 · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced 

Learn chair design and build while making your own unique windsor chair in this hands-on chair making class. Designed for all levels of students, the course covers creating a concept, creating working drawings, creating bending forms, riving material from logs and more. This course prepares you to create and execute your own chair designs.

Taught by Luke Barnett, award-winning chair maker and SBWI founder and president. All tools and materials are included; students should bring comfortable shoes and be ready for hard work.

5 Days · $1275.00 · Beginner, Intermediate

Learn hand-cut joinery while making variety of woodworking joints in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for people interested in hand-tools and traditional wood joints, the course covers hand-tools, Dovetail, Half-blind Dovetail, Mortise and Tenon, Through Wedged Tenon, their strengths and weaknesses and how to implement them into furniture making and design. and prepares you to make rock-solid furniture in your own shop.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, ‘25 Furniture Design Graduate and Red Seal award winner. All tools and materials are included, but you are more than welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring a notebook, water bottle, and coffee mug .

2 Days · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn how to frame your own art while making a custom picture frame in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for art lovers, artists, photographers, and beginning woodworkers the course covers miter joints, routers, glass cutting, and matting and prepares you to make your own frames.

Taught by Shane Mooney and Peter Densmore, graduates of SBWI’s Furniture Design program. All tools and materials are included. Students should bring their own artwork (maximum frame size must be 30" or less on any dimension). Students can also create a wood endgrain print during class.

2 days (weekend) · $325.00 · Beginner

Learn woodturning while making mallets, bowls, and more in this hands-on lathe class. Designed for beginners, the course covers lathe use, terminology, material selection, tools, and spindle turning and bowl turning. This course prepares you to safely and efficiently make turned projects at home.

Taught by Shane Mooney, SBWI Furniture Design Graduate ‘24. All tools and materials are provided but you are welcome to bring your own turning tools; students should bring a notebook and comfortable shoes.

2 Days (Weekend) · $325.00· Beginner & Intermediate

Learn how to create the classic dovetail joint while making beautiful step stool in this hands-on woodworking class. Designed for absolute beginners and people with some experience , the course covers tools, layout, cutting, fitting and glue-up and prepares you to incorporate dovetails into your own projects.

Taught by Jamie Marvin, woodworker and class of 2024 Furniture Design Graduate and Red Seal award winner. All materials are included and SBWI provides all the tools, but you are certainly welcome to bring your own tools; students should bring comfortable shoes.

2-Day · $325.00 · Intermediate

Learn bowl-turning techniques and finishing methods while making a gallery rim bowl in this hands-on woodturning class. Designed for intermediate students with some woodturning experience, the course covers tool use, embellishment, and design and prepares you to create your own artistic bowls.

Taught by Greg Gallegos, woodturner and artist with 25 years of experience. All tools and materials are included.