Chuck Bender - Woodworking

3D Cutting Board With Alex Snodgrass – Hands-on Class
2020-07-25 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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 Tall Case Clock Week 1 – Hands-on Class
2020-07-24 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-23 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-22 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-21 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-20 08:30 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
To many woodworkers, the tall case clock represents the pinnacle of furniture making. This is your chance to reach that summit. Join me for this 2-week class and build something extraordinary – a Simon Willard tall case clock.
Tall Case Clock
You’ll start the first week of the class at the top. That’s right, the hood is where the project begins. It may be the smallest component of the entire clock, but there’s more to making a clock hood than meets the eye. It’s a complex case that will put all your skills to the test.

Build a Pembroke Table – Hands-on Class
2020-07-17 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-16 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-15 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-14 08:30 - 16:30, 2020-07-13 08:30 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
In the 5-day Pembroke Table hands-on class, you’ll stretch your woodworking skills. You’ll be reproducing a table from Newport, Rhode Island that was originally made by Holmes Weaver in approximately 1795.
Pembroke Table
From its graceful tapered legs to its elegant oval top, this Pembroke table is in every way a masterpiece. You’ll begin the week fitting mortise-and-tenon joints, tapering legs, and installing string inlay and making bellflowers. The week concludes with the creation of knuckle joints that support the drop leaves, and installation of the table top.

Veneer & Inlay – Hands-on Class
2019-11-15 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-11-14 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-11-13 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-11-12 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-11-11 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
This five-day class covers the basics of veneer & inlay. Highly figured veneer and contrasting inlay can add dimension, depth and decoration for your pieces. Most woodworkers don’t know where to begin with veneer and inlay but this class will help get you started. The techniques are simple to grasp and the results can be dramatic. If you are looking to step up your woodworking skills to the next level, this is the class for you.

Veneer & Inlay
In addition to lots of practice exercises, a small veneered and inlaid box will be made in class so you can put all those newly honed skills to work.
Some of the skills learned in the Veneer & Inlay class are:

Hammer veneering
Bookmatching and slip matching veneers for dramatic effects
How to make edge banding
Sand shading

Felder USA Open House
2019-11-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-07 09:00 - 19:00 | Felder USA, 2 Lukens Drive, Suite 300, New Castle, DE, 19720, United States
I am appearing and demonstrating at the Felder USA Open House on November 7 & 8, 2019. Each day I’ll present three seminars: Modern Milling Methods, Shop-made Moldings, and Double Raised Panels.
In Modern Milling Methods, I take you through the process of creating flat, true lumber for your projects. There is an easy to follow sequence used to achieve flat, square, accurately dimensioned material. I’ll demonstrate that sequence and explain why I perform each step in the specific order I have chosen.
Shop-made Moldings begins with profile design and quickly moves to execution. Many woodworkers struggle with figuring out how to make a specific molding profile with the fewest number of tools. I’ll demonstrate how I create a variety of profiles with a couple of hand planes and a limited number of router bits and shaper cutters.
Using a combination of hand and power tools, Double Raised Panels shows you how to achieve a more dramatic look with minimal effort. While the origin of this technique may be rooted in tradition, the design possibilities are endless. Raise your decorative woodworking skills to a new level.

Woodworking Fundamentals – Hands-on Class
2019-10-25 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-24 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-23 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-22 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-21 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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.

3D Cutting Board With Alex Snodgrass – 10/12 to 10/13 – Hands-on Class
2019-10-13 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-12 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States

Connecticut Highboy 2nd Week – Hands-on Class
2019-10-11 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-10 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-09 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-08 09:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-07 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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
