Chuck Bender - Woodworking

Make a Danish Modern Stool – Hands-on Class
2021-10-20 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2021-10-22 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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.

SAPFM – Chesapeake Chapter
2021-12-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Woodcraft of Harrisburg, 3831 Union Deposit Rd., Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States

Using Molding Planes With Matt Bickford
2022-04-23 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-24 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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, 2022-05-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
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.

Make a Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
2022-06-06 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-06-07 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-06-08 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-06-09 09:00 - 16:30, 2022-06-10 09:00 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
The Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table class is perfect for the beginning furniture maker or the master. Historically, mid-century modern furniture tends to be simplistic, stiff, and boxy in appearance. It was, after all, factory-made. The tool and production limitations were the driving factors in most of the designs of the period. This rare gem of a design effectively balances form, function, and historically long-lived joinery techniques to create a visually balanced, well-constructed table.
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
Although this project looks complex, this coffee table is perfect for the budding furniture maker. Simple wedged, round-tenon joinery gives this table an elegant appearance without being ornate. The week begins with a full-scale drawing, then quickly moves into joinery and making all the tapered legs.

Connecticut Flat Top Highboy - Hands-on Class
2022-06-13 08:30 - 16:30, 2022-06-14 08:30 - 16:30, 2022-06-15 08:30 - 16:30, 2022-06-16 08:30 - 16:30 | Acanthus Workshop, 62 Indian Trail Rd., Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229, United States
To many woodworkers, the highboy (or tall chest) 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 Connecticut-inspired Flat-top Highboy.
Flat-top Highboy
You’ll start the first week of the class at the top. That’s right, the upper case is where the project begins. We’ll dovetail the case, make and fit the fluted quarter columns, and even make the generous crown molding. Dovetailing and fitting the drawers is your homework before the next session.
Week two begins with lower-case construction. We’ll jump into making pad-footed cabriole legs, then roll through the mortise-and-tenon construction. The week finishes off with a bit of carving.
