Chuck Bender - Woodworking

Pennsylvania Spice Box – Hands-on Class
2019-04-29 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-04-30 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-01 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-02 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-03 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
The Pennsylvania 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

Hanging Corner Cabinet – Hands-on Class
2019-05-13 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-14 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-15 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-16 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-17 09:00 - 16:30
Corner cabinets are nearly perfect projects. They take up little space in a room, yet they display curiosities quite well. There’s also the woodworking aspect of a corner cabinet, you can build a variety of skills.

Some of the skills learned in the Hanging Corner Cabinet class are:

How to accurately assemble long beveled corners
How to miter moldings on something other than 45°
How to make, fit and hang a door and drawer
How to select and match grain patterns for the most dramatic effect

Finishing Week – Hands-on Class
2019-05-20 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-22 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-23 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-05-24 09:00 - 16:30
Do you have a pile of projects sitting in your shop that are complete except for the finish? Or are you stuck in the rut of making pieces that deserve a great finish, but you revert to rubbing on a bit of oil and call it done because it feels safe and comfortable? It’s time to kick up your skills in my Finishing Week class.
Finishing Week
Bring along one of your smaller projects that is in need of finishing and we’ll work together to bring out all the beauty you’ve built in. Everything from surface prep to finishing the finish is covered in this five day class.
Some of the skills learned in the Finishing Week class are:

Surface prep – the foundation of a good finish
Confident coloring – no more patchwork projects
Popping the figure
Get that silky smooth top coat with a hand-rubbed finish

Connecticut Highboy – Hands-on Class
2019-06-10 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-11 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-12 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-13 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-14 09:00 - 16:30
Step up to the Connecticut Highboy master’s class. This two-week class (one in the summer and one in the fall) is the ultimate test of your woodworking skills.
Connecticut Highboy
Whether you call them highboys, tallboys or simply tall chests, the form remains a popular today as it was in the 18th century.
Some of the skills learned in the Connecticut Highboy class are:

Shaping multiple cabriole legs for a project
Complex case joinery
Making gooseneck moldings
How to select and layout your materials for your project’s best appearance

Making Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2019-06-17 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-18 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-19 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-20 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-21 09:00 - 16:30
In the making molding planes with Matt Bickford workshop you’re guided through the process of making a pair of #8 hollow and round planes with side escapements.
Making Molding Planes
The class focuses on making a pair of hollows and rounds, but much of the tooling and processes are directly relatable to making any wooden plane or tuning any antique. Students start with beech billets and learn the many steps involved in creating these very versatile tools.

Some of the many skills addressed in this class:

Making an accurate mortise with floats
Fitting a wedge
Mating an iron to the bed of your plane
Profiling a sole
Heat treating
Addressing the iron’s various edges.

Using Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2019-06-22 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-06-23 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.

Wharton Esherick Stool – Hands-on Class
2019-07-15 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-07-16 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-07-17 09:00 - 16:30
The Wharton Esherick stool class allows you to perfect your sculpted mortise and tenons.
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 stool with sculpted mortise-and-tenon joinery. Or get creative and adapt the design to your own 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
Matching figure in wood to provide the best possible look for your project
