Chuck Bender - Woodworking

Greene & Greene Rocker – Hands-on Class
2020-11-20 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-19 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-18 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-17 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-16 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
This stunning Greene & Greene rocker is the project of the week. In this 5-day class, you’ll have the opportunity to recreate this G&G masterpiece.
Greene & Greene Rocker
You’ll dive into some striped mahogany for the chair parts, then form ebony tenons and pegs to hold it all together. From piercing the splats to inlaying the burl and ebony into the crest, this rocking chair will push your abilities to their limits and beyond. The best way to become a better woodworker is to test your skills and push through what you perceive as their limits.

Make a Wharton Esherick 3-Tier Stand – Hands-on Class
2020-11-13 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-12 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-11 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-10 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-11-09 08:30 - 16:30
Wharton Esherick was an artist and studio furniture maker before virtually everyone else. His work is often sculptural with light, flowing lines. The 3-tier stand he created in the mid-1960s is no exception.

3-Tier Stand
In this 5-day class, you’ll create your version of this Wharton Esherick masterpiece. From the joinery to the mix of woods, the details of this stand elevate it to another level of quality and design. There’s also lots of power and hand tool work to help develop or improve your skills.

Optional 3rd Day of Using Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2020-11-02 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.
In this optional 3rd day of the class, you’ll learn to make and carve linenfold and egg-and-dart moldings.
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.

Using Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2020-11-01 09:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-31 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.

Making Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2020-10-30 09:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-29 09:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-28 09:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-27 09:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-26 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.

Make a Mid-Century Modern Bar – Hands-on Class
2020-10-23 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-10-22 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-10-21 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-10-20 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-10-19 08:30 - 16:30
The Mid-Century Modern Bar you’ll make in this 5-day class is sleek, easy to build, but challenging enough for nearly any woodworker. Its interior is fitted out for a variety of beverages and drinkware.
Mid-Century Modern Bar
Fitting the case parts together is just the beginning of this class. Making and installing the shelves, dividers, bottle, and glass holders are the meat and potatoes of this project. The week wraps up with a lesson on hanging and fitting the doors.

Make a Line & Berry Inlaid Document Box – Hands-on Class
2020-10-02 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-10-01 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-09-30 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-09-29 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-09-28 08:30 - 16:30
Document boxes were an essential part of nearly every 17th and 18th Century home. Often they were used as a portable home safe. Although many were plain, others were showcase pieces for their owners. Our Line & Berry Inlaid Document Box falls into the latter category. Your box will undoubtedly be the focal point of any room.
Line & Berry Inlaid Document Box
Because document boxes were made over a long period of time, you have a few options when making your box. You can make the box with William & Mary ball feet, or mitered or dovetailed bracket feet.

Woodworking Fundamentals – Hands-on Class
2020-09-25 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-09-24 08:30 - 16:30
The five-day Woodworking Fundamentals program is one fun-filled, action-packed week of woodworking!
Woodworking Fundamentals
Whether you’ve never worked wood before, or you’re a master, after one week in our shop you’ll have the basics needed to start your woodworking hobby or career. As a student, you will learn about hand tools and how to use them. You will learn about the basic machines used in today’s fine woodworking projects. Your skills will all come together with lessons on how to create shop drawings, choose the right lumber for your project as well as a good working knowledge of the basic woodworking joints. Students begin building a one-drawer stand that they can take home.
