Build a Thomas Affleck Card Table – Hands-on Class
2026-08-05 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-08-06 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-08-07 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
In the Affleck Card Table class, you’ll make an 18th-century Chippendale masterpiece. With its shaped sides and serpentine front, this card table epitomizes elegance. You’ll add pierced, carved corner brackets and gadrooning to kick this project up to the next level.

Affleck Card Table
The five-day Affleck Card Table class begins with full-scale shop drawings. You’ll jump into the joinery, forming the sides and front, and creating the carved elements throughout the remainder of the week.

Build a Federal Style Hepplewhite Side Table with Bob Van Dyke – Hands-on Class
2026-08-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-27 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-28 08:00 - 17:00
This exciting new class features a small walnut Federal Style Hepplewhite side table with a whole lot of challenges and a boatload of new skills to be learned. The focus of this class will be efficiency in joinery, ornamentation, and design. Efficiency in joinery means completing as much joinery as possible in as few operations as practical, along with cutting joints that fit right off the machines. The ornamentation is simple, classic Federal style. String inlay on the legs, a patterned waist banding setting off the aprons, and a veneered & cockbeaded dovetailed drawer. This project also features techniques that may be new to some of you. Planing a spring joint when making the top, book-matching the crotch walnut or walnut burl veneer for the drawer front, making dovetails efficiently and accurately, and learning to cut twin tenons on the drawer blade are all skills that make what is basically a simple table into an heirloom piece you can be proud of. This traditional Federal table will fit with just about any home décor and is small enough at 22” wide X 17” inches deep to fit just about anywhere. These are skills you will use over and over.

Wharton Esherick Inspired Library Steps – Hands-on Class
2026-08-31 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-01 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-02 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-03 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-04 09:00 - 16:30
Wharton Esherick is called the Dean of American Woodworkers. He was making contemporary, or studio furniture long before those terms existed. These Wharton Esherick-inspired library steps exemplify his eye for balance and design.

Wharton Esherick Library Steps
In this 5-day class, you’ll build an interpretation of the iconic Wharton Esherick library steps. From its carved, asymmetrical twisted column with through mortise-and-tenon joinery, to the curved dovetail connection between the risers and treads, this piece will challenge even the most experienced woodworker.

Build a Stickley Inspired Plant Stand – Hands-on Class
2026-09-14 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-15 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-16 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-17 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-18 09:00 - 16:30
In the Stickley Plant Stand class, you’ll make a beautiful, timeless classic. Gustav Stickley helped define and popularize Mission furniture.

Stickley Plant Stand
The five-day Stickley Plant Stand class begins with full-scale shop drawings. You’ll then jump into the mortise-and-tenon joinery to create a piece to last generations.

Students need to supply one 8? X 8? or 10? X 10? ceramic tile.

Make a Hans Wegner Inspired Side Table – Hands-on Class
2026-09-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-22 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-23 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-24 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-09-25 09:00 - 16:30
In the Wegner Side Table class, we’ll combine details from two Hans Wegner designs to create a new mid-century modern classic. Danish furniture was greatly influenced by Hans Wegner. His designs were simple, elegant, and functional. The pictured table captures all of those elements, but we’re going to give it a slight twist. Taking cues from a slightly different Wegner table, we’ll incorporate a hidden, carved serving tray.

Wegner Side Table
The five-day Wegner Side Table class begins with full-scale shop drawings. You’ll then jump into the mortise-and-tenon joinery to create a piece to last generations.

Build a Greene and Greene Chair – Hands-on Class
2026-10-12 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-10-13 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-10-14 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-10-15 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-10-16 09:00 - 16:30
In the Greene & Greene Chair class, you’ll build a stylish side chair. The class will focus on making the chair itself, but you’ll have the opportunity to delve into the inlay if time allows.

Greene & Greene Chair
The five-day Greene & Greene Chair class begins with full-scale shop drawings. You’ll jump immediately into the joinery for the chair and create the back assembly.

Make a Tilt-top Table – Hands-on Class
2026-10-19 09:00 - 16:30
In the Tilt-top Table class, you’ll kick up your turning and joinery skills. The tilt-top tea table was often the center of civility in the 18th century. Originally created for serving tea to family and guests, the tilt-top table makes the perfect accent piece for any room.

Tilt-top Table
The five-day Tilt-top Table class begins with full-scale shop drawings. You’ll then turn the column, form the dovetail joints, and create the birdcage that allows the table to tilt and rotate.
