Description

For the first time ever I’m offering the opportunity to create one of three (four if you count my version) different Wharton Esherick stools. The Wharton Esherick stool class allows you to perfect your sculpted furniture parts.

Wharton Esherick Stool

Wharton Esherick is one of the most influential woodworkers of the last century. In this class, you’ll recreate Esherick’s 1929 or 1932 stool with sculpted mortise-and-tenon joinery. You could alternatively make the iconic Esherick three-legged stool with turned legs and sculpted seat, or the four-legged version I made in the Popular Woodworking Magazine article.

 

Or get creative and adapt a design to your taste.

 

Some of the skills learned in the Wharton Esherick stool class are:

• Sculpted mortise-and-tenon joinery
• Shaping round and tapered parts by hand and machine
• Project planning and layout

 

Materials are not included in the class fee. Lumber for this project may be purchased through us or on your own and shipped to our shop at least four weeks prior to the class.

Each student should supply his, or her, own:

• Safety glasses and hearing protection
• Combination or machinist square
• Bevel gauge; bench chisels
• Carvers mallet
• Dovetail saw
• Marking gauge
• Smooth plane or jack plane
• Block plane
• Tape measure or folding rule
• Spokeshaves and drawknife

If you do not have the tools on the list, don’t panic, there are plenty of tools for your use in class.

 

Course Dates:

• May 05 – 09, 2025

Previous Dates:

• November 08 – 12, 2021

 

 

The shop opens at 8:30 am. Class begins at 9:00 am.  A delicious lunch, snacks, and soft drinks are provided. Class ends at 4:30 pm – the shop remains open until 5:30 pm.

The class is limited to a maximum of 4 students.

Call or email to be placed on the waiting list if this class sells out.