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• Alpine School of Woodcarving

  http://www.chipcarving.com/school.htm
  Founded and operated by Wayne Barton and specializing in the education of chip carving. Located in Park Ridge, Illinois.

• American School Of French Marquetry

  http://www.americanschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/
  Offering both week-long and weekend classes teaching the classical French 18th century marquetry method using a chevalet. Located in San Diego, California.

• American Woodcarving School

  http://www.americanwoodcarving.com/
  Holds regular day and evening classes 52 weeks out of the year, and approximately 6 weekend workshops per year. Located in Wayne, New Jersey USA.

• American Woodworking Academy

  http://www.awacademy.com/
  Woodworking trade school featuring instruction in cabinet making, furniture building,and hands-on woodworking. Located in Fenton, Missouri.

• Andrew Crawford - fine decorative boxes

  http://www.fine-boxes.com/courses
  Offering a range of box making classes. Located in Acton Scott, Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.

• Barry Gordon Woodcarving

  http://www.barrygordon.com/
  Classes in carving contemporary and classic wooden utensils and decorative spoons. Located near Syracuse, NY,

• Boston Woodworking Co., Ltd.

  http://www.bostonwoodworking.com/
  Offers workshops designed to teach fundamental woodworking skills. Sunbury, Ohio.

• Center for Furniture Craftsmanship

  http://www.woodschool.org/
  Offers workshops, twelve-week intensives, and a nine-month comprehensive, taught by an international faculty in Rockport, Maine.

• Centre for Fine Woodworking

  http://cfw.co.nz/
  Offering short and full-time courses in furniture making and design with a wide scope for many aspects of woodworking. Located in Nelson, New Zealand.

• Chippendale International School of Furniture

  http://www.chippendale.co.uk/
  Full breadth curriculum in a 30-week format that takes the student from timber identification to setting up a business. Located in Edinburgh Scotland.

• College of the Redwoods

  http://www.crfinefurniture.com/
  Fine furniture woodworking school located in Northern California, offering 1-2 week summer workshops as well as a nine-month comprehensive program. Founded in 1982 by James Krenov.

• Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking

  http://www.schoolofwoodworking.com/
  Offering one- to 5-day classes in furniture making, woodcarving, woodturning, furniture finishing and related crafts. Located in Manchester, Connecticut and associated with the local Woodcraft store.

• Conover Workshops

  http://www.conoverworkshops.com/
  Teaches traditional woodworking and woodturning techniques with noted author Ernie Conover and other expert instructors.

• Country Workshops Woodworking School

  http://countryworkshops.org/
  Focusing on traditional craftsmanship with hand tools. Classes offered in chairmaking, carving, boxmaking, and spoonmaking. Located an hour from Ashville, NC

• David Charlesworth Fine Furniture Making Courses

  http://www.davidcharlesworth.co.uk/
  Noted author David Charlesworth offers both short (5-days) and long (12-week) furniture making courses at his workshop in Hartland, Devon, UK.

• David Savage - Fine Furniture Maker

  http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/
  Offering six-month to one-year length courses in contemporary furniture making and design. Located in the Village of Shebbear, UK.

• Franklin Street Fine Woodwork

  http://www.franklinstreetfw.com/
  Offers beginning and intermediate classes and private instruction. Includes syllabus and registration forms. Tampa, Florida.

• Furniture Institute of Massachusetts

  http://www.furnituremakingclasses.com/
  Both Full-time (20 months) and part-time (2- to 10-day) classes in furniture making are offered by Phil Lowe at his Beverly, MA studio.

• Heartwood School

  http://www.heartwoodschool.com/
  Teaching skills and knowledge for building energy-efficient homes with programs dealing in all aspects of the homebuilding crafts, including timber framing, cabinet making, and finish carpentry.

• Homestead Heritage Woodworking School

  http://www.homesteadheritage-woodworking.com/
  Offers classes from one- to twelve-days in hand-tool woodworking. School is part of a larger homestead training facility located near Waco, Texas.

• Homestead Woodworking School

  http://woodschoolnh.com/
  Schedule of courses, registration procedure, location, and information concerning Homestead Woodworking School in New Hampshire.

• Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking

  http://www.insidepassage.ca/
  Based in Roberts Creek, BC, Canada.

• J D Lohr School of Woodworking

  http://www.jdlohrschoolofwoodworking.com/
  Practical machine woodworking class without the dogma. Course focuses on table saw, router, repeatable skills, and safety. Beginner, intermediate or advanced students welcome. Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.

• John Garrison Woodworking

  http://www.johngarrisonwoodworking.com/
  Personal instruction in woodworking teaching that helps fit woodworking with busy lifestyle and enjoy the experience. Located just south of Cloverdale Indiana, USA.

• John Lloyd Fine Furniture

  http://www.johnlloydfinefurniture.co.uk/
  Offering a series of two to five day classes in furniture making. Classes for beginners through advanced studies. Located in East Sussex.

• Le nombre d'or

  http://www.nombredor.com/
  Offering lectures and technical training, for up to one year, for all levels of skill in restoration and conservation of wooden gilded objects. Located in Paris.

• Lonnie Bird's School of Fine Woodworking

  http://www.lonniebird.com/
  Hands-on woodworking instruction by author Lonnie Bird. Classes include furniture making, carving, joinery, and chair making. School is located in Dandridge, Tennessee.

• Makeville Studio

  http://www.makeville.com/
  Offering hands-on woodworking classes for beginners and access to a woodworking studio for members. Located in Brooklyn, New York USA.

• Marc Adams School of Woodworking

  http://marcadams.com/
  Instructional classes on every form of woodworking from basic design to finishing techniques. Located in Franklin, Indiana, but offers lectures and seminars across the country.

• Masterpiece School of Furniture

  http://www.masterpieceschool.com/
  Teaches the philosophy and classic form of 17th and 18th century furniture making. Overview of school and courses, photos of students at work, portfolio and instructor biography.

• Mike Siemsen's School of Woodworking

  http://www.schoolofwood.com/
  Weekend and week long woodworking classes offering a variety of projects for all skill levels. Located 35 miles North of St. Paul in Minnesota.

• New England School Of Architectural Woodworking

  http://www.nesaw.com/
  Offering a 37 week architectural training program, and 10 week evening classes in woodworking. Located in Easthampton, MA.

• New Legacy School of Woodworking

  http://woodworkingschool.com/
  Short courses in craftsmanship. Learn hand tool woodworking to create furniture using time-tested methods. Located in North Wales, UK.

• North Bennet Street School Programs

  http://www.nbss.edu/
  Training people for employment since 1885 for work in fields that require craftsmanship and skillful use of hand tools and power equipment.

• North Country Studio Workshops

  http://northcountrystudioworkshops.org/
  Offering woodworking classes for intermediate and advanced woodworkers. Located in Deerfield, NH

• North House Folk School

  http://www.northhouse.org/
  In addition to folk studies and crafts, this non-profit school offers various entry level woodworking, timberframing, and boatbuilding classes. Most classes are three days in length or less. Located in Grand Marais, MN.

• Old English Furniture & Cabinet Co.

  http://www.oefcc.com/
  Offering classes and workshops teaching the proficiencies and skills essential to accomplish the construction of fine furniture and cabinetry. Located in Selmer, Tennessee.

• Olde Mill Cabinet Shoppe

  http://www.oldemill.com/
  Specializes in 18th c American Furniture and wood restoration supplies along with offering classes in "Philadelphia Style" cabinet making. Occasional classes and courses offered by Gene Landon of Fine Woodworking Magazine.

• Palomar College Cabinet & Furniture Technology

  http://www.palomar.edu/woodworking/
  Offers courses ranging from Furniture Design, Timber Framing, Guitar building, to Production Cabinetmaking. Four full-time and sixteen part-time instructors teach at this 2,000 student school located in San Marcos, California.

• Passion for Wood

  http://passionforwood.com/
  Classes, group seminars, and individual training offered in various woodworking techniques. Courses of one-to-three weeks in length are offered that are both project-based and skills-based. Located in Acton, Ontario CA

• Philadelphia Furniture Workshop

  http://philadelphiafurnitureworkshop.com/
  Offering a broad range of seminars, workshops, and classes ranging from one to three days. Students learn on traditional joiners benches. Located in a 1920s factory building in Philadelphia, PA.

• Port Townsend School of Woodworking

  http://www.ptwoodschool.com/
  The Port Townsend School of Woodworking offers a full range of workshops on cabinet and furniture making, as well as classes on historic preservation and traditional woodcrafts

• Rob Cosman Workshops

  http://www.robcosman.com/
  Noted Canadian woodworker, Rob Cosman, offers four and five day hand tool workshops in Oakville, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta.

• Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery

  http://www.roberto-venn.com/
  Since 1977, school has offered 5-month long master craftsman level classes in guitar making and repair.

• Rosewood Studio - School of Fine Woodworking

  http://www.rosewoodstudio.com/
  Offering one-day to nine-month woodworking classes in all aspects of woodworking including furniture making and a "tutored build" program, where students receive one-on-one instruction on a flexible time schedule. Located in Almonte, Ontario, Canada (Ottawa).

• Ted Harlan Woodworking School

  http://www.tedharlan.com/
  Instruction includes wood basics, advanced joinery, lutherie, furniture, guitar making and construction. Located in Louisville, Kentucky

• The Acanthus Workshop, LLC

  http://www.acanthus.com/
  Woodworking education offered for all levels, from basic wood finishing to Master level classes. Located in East Coventry (Philadelphia area), PA

• The Northwest Woodworking Studio

  http://www.northwestwoodworking.com/
  Offers a variety of seminars and workshops. Also, five- and ten-week courses and a 2-year comprehensive program are also available. Located in Portland Oregon.

• The Windsor Institute

  http://www.thewindsorinstitute.com/
  Exclusively dedicated to teaching Windsor chair-making this school founded by chair maker Mike Dunbar in 1980, offers five day classes two to three times each month. Located in Hampton, NH.

• The Windsor Workshop

  http://www.thewindsorworkshop.co.uk/
  Offering 5-day classes in various styles of Windsor chair making. Located in West Chiltington, Pulborough, West Sussex, UK

• The Wood Whisper

  http://thewoodwhisperer.com/
  Offers video, articles, shared projects, forums, chat, radio, and a virtual woodworking school with winter, summer, and fall sessions.

• Vermont Woodworking School

  http://www.vermontwoodworkingschool.com/
  Woodworking and furniture-making school in a modern shop in a large, historic barn in Fairfax, Vermont.

• Willam Ng School of Fine Woodworking

  http://wnwoodworkingschool.com/
  Offers classes in all areas of woodworking, but with an emphsis on furniture building. School is located in Anaheim, California.

• Woodsmith Woodworking Seminars

  http://www.woodworkingseminars.com/
  One-hour seminars held weekly in a 200-seat woodworking shop/classroom. Seminars are presented by the editors of Woodsmith, ShopNotes, and Workbench magazines. Located in Des Moines, Iowa.

 

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