Classes and Events

Benchwork Week w/ Roy Underhill & Bill Anderson

The Woodwright's School 89 A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Your five-day workshop of traditional hand tool joinery and cabinetry is a concentrated introduction to classic bench work. Roy Underhill, former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, conducts the full course along with author, teacher and artisan par exellence Bill Anderson. You’ll have proper vintage tools to work with, including both wooden and metal planes as we begin

Edge Tool Sharpening w/ Bill Anderson

The Woodwright's School 89 A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

This single day will change your woodworking life! You'll learn proven sharpening techniques as well as exploring the micro-world of the cutting edge. This is a great day of hands on experience with a range of sharpening media (waterstones, oil stones, sandpaper, etc) and techniques to sharpen planes blades, chisels, spokeshaves, curved bladed tools and

Hand Plane Skills w/ Bill Anderson

The Woodwright's School 89 A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Crank up your bench planes skills! We'll cover the restoration, sharpening, and tune up of hand planes. You'll get hands-on experience with both wooden and metal-bodied scrub, block, smooth, jack, try, fore and jointer planes. You'll see how to use the series of bench planes to surface and dimension stock and prepare stock for glue-ups. We'll

Making Table (Rule) Joint Planes w/ Bill Anderson

The Woodwright's School 89 A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Four Days Not for the faint hearted! First you make the tools, then you make the furniture! You start by making a matched pair of fenced rule joint planes that you can use to make dropleaf tables. This is an intense workshop! We will be making 2 planes in 3 days and tuning them on the