Chuck Bender - Woodworking

Build a Stickley Tile-top Tea Table – Hands-on Class
2021-08-09 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-08-10 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-08-11 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-08-12 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-08-13 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
Furniture from the Arts and Crafts period, like this Stickley Tile-top Tea Table, are both stylish and functional. Traditionally, furniture of this period was made in quarter-sawn oak, but this project would look great in just about any wood.

Stickley Tile-top Tea Table
You’ll be copying a rare example of Stickley design. While the original size is roughly 20? X 25?, you can modify the size to suit your needs. The beauty of making a project of this kind in such a small class is room for customization.

3D Cutting Board With Alex Snodgrass – Hands-on Class
2021-08-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-08-22 09:00 - 16:30
Make a 3D Cutting Board with Alex Snodgrass here in the Acanthus Workshop. Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, you can learn how to make a beautiful, mystifying end-grain cutting board.
3D Cutting Board with Alex Snodgrass
This hands-on class begins by teaching you how to tune a bandsaw to make perfect cuts. Once learned, this skill makes future bandsaw use a breeze. You will then progress through the techniques required to make the cutting board: how to make dead-on straight cuts on the bandsaw, how to make accurate angled cuts on the bandsaw, and how to plane, sand, glue, and clamp the cutting board.
Using only three woods, walnut, cherry, and maple, you’ll work under Alex’s direction to make a beautiful and functional cutting board that you’ll take home. More importantly, you’ll go home with the knowledge and experience to be able to set up a bandsaw to make accurate cuts regardless of what you’re making. Oh, and you’ll be able to easily repeat the construction process to make enough 3D cutting boards for all your friends and family.

Build a Line and Berry Chest – Hands-on Class
2021-09-20 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-09-21 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-09-22 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-09-23 08:30 - 16:30, 2021-09-24 08:30 - 16:30
The Line and Berry Chest is the ideal class to stretch your woodworking skills. It’s time to make a true masterpiece.

Line and Berry Chest
There’s a simple elegance to this Chester County line and berry chest, yet there’s plenty of drama. With raised-panel sides and arch-top drawers, this chest offers plenty of opportunities to expand your skills. Because the class size is limited, you can customize the class the way you want. Want to add bracket feet or add inlay to the side panels? No problem.

Make a Danish Modern Stool – Hands-on Class
2021-10-18 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-19 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-20 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-22 09:00 - 16:30
The Danish Modern stool class allows you to create a modern masterpiece in just five days. Copied from an original 1955 Hans Wegner design, this stool includes through mortise-and-tenon joinery and sculpted handles.

Danish Modern Stool
You can recreate this stool exactly, or get creative, and adapt the design to your own taste. Spend a week expanding your woodworking skills and making a stylish project.

Wharton Esherick Stool – Hands-on Class
2021-11-08 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-09 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-10 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-11 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-12 09:00 - 16:30
Wharton Esherick’s 1929 stool.
For the first time ever I’m offering the opportunity to create one of four different Wharton Esherick stools. The Wharton Esherick stool class allows you to perfect your sculpted furniture parts.
Wharton Esherick Stool
The iconic Wharton Esherick three-legged stool.
Wharton Esherick is one of the most influential woodworkers of the last century. In this class, you’ll recreate Esherick’s 1929 or the 1932 stool with sculpted mortise-and-tenon joinery. Or you can make the iconic Esherick three-legged stool with turned legs and sculpted seat.

Using Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2022-04-23 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-24 09:00 - 16:30
Stop making compromises with your router. Stop getting close to the moulding profiles you want. Learn how to use some of the most abundant moulding planes of the past to get the exact detail you want in the Using Molding Planes with Matt Bickford class.
Using molding planes
Hollows and rounds do not make specific profiles. They make specific arcs. Learn to transform these various arcs into scores of varying profiles.
From layout to execution, this weekend class focuses on creating various moldings with these extraordinarily versatile planes. You’ll lay-out and ultimately stick (plane) several moldings that range from simple coves and ovolos through ogees, cymas and various combinations.
The class focuses on hollows and rounds sized #6 and #10 along with a rabbet plane. Students have the opportunity to bring their own performing planes or they can use newly made planes by M. S. Bickford, planemaker. Students also have the opportunity to use a larger range of planes.
Each student leaves with a stick (or two) of moulding for a picture frame and the ability to transfer mouldings he or she sees in person or print into wood and onto their project.

Spice Box – Hands-on Class
2022-04-25 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-26 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-27 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-28 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-29 09:00 - 16:30
The spice box offers unique challenges to the intermediate woodworker. From case construction to hanging a door and dovetailing a large number of drawers, this project will challenge your skills.
The best part of spice boxes is the secret compartments, right? I’ve designed this Pennsylvania spice box with several.

Some of the skills learned in the Pennsylvania Spice Box class are:

How to incorporate secret compartments into your woodworking projects
How to break down a complex project into easy-to-accomplish smaller steps
How to make ogee feet
Matching figure in wood to provide the best possible look for your project

Make a Pie Crust Table – Hands-on Class
2022-05-23 08:00 - 17:00
Appealing to the carver in many woodworkers, the pie crust table epitomizes the mastery of craftsmanship. In this week-long class, you’ll make your own version of one of the most elegant pie crust tables in existence.

Pie Crust Table
While the original upon which this adaptation is modeled is approximately 24″ in diameter and 28″ tall, your project can be altered to suit your needs. If you want to make the top 36″ in diameter, we’ll scale the project to match. If you want to carve acanthus leaf instead of shells on the knees, then that’s what you’ll do. The beauty of making a project of this kind in such a small class is room for customization.
