Schools and Instruction

Academy of Innovative Woodworking, Inc. - Instruction and training in all phases of Woodworking. Custom and speciallty woodworking of all kinds.

The Acanthus Workshop, LLC - Woodworking education offered for all levels, from basic wood finishing to Master level classes. Located in East Coventry (Philadelphia area), PA

Alpine School of Woodcarving - Founded and operated by Wayne Barton and specializing in the education of chip carving. Located in Park Ridge, Illinois.

American School Of French Marquetry - Offering both week-long and weekend classes teaching the classical French 18th century marquetry method using a chevalet. Class sizes are limited to six students. Located in San Diego, California.

American School of Lutherie - Offering training in lutherie, specifically guitar building and repair. Courses are available for both beginning and experienced lutheirs.

American Sycamore Woodworkers Retreat - Offers classes from one- to six-days teaching a variety of skills, with an emphasis on furniture. School also provides on-site lodging. Located in central Indiana.

American Woodcarving School - Holds regular day and evening classes 52 weeks out of the year, and approximately 6 weekend workshops per year. Founded in 1974 by Sculptor Michael Denike.

American Woodworking Academy - Woodworking trade school featuring instruction in cabinet making, furniture building,and hands-on woodworking. Located in Fenton, Missouri.

Andrew Crawford - fine decorative boxes - Offering a range of box making classes. Located in Acton Scott, Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.

Appalachian Center for Craft - Offering a B.F.A. with a woodworking concentration in a series of seven classes including design and woodworking. Typical projects include chairs, tables and cabinets, with an emphasis on joinery, bending, veneering, turning, and finishing. Located in Smithville TN.

Art's Wood Shop & School of Woodworking - Offers three separate six-day courses entitled Fundamentals of Woodworking, Fundamentals of Cabinet Making, and Furniture Making. Located in Niagara Falls, NY.

Barry Gordon Woodcarving - Classes in carving contemporary and classic wooden utensils and decorative spoons. Located near Syracuse, NY,

The Breed School - Offering four-day to two-week long classes teaching design and construction of American 18th century furniture using hand tools. Located in South Berwick, Maine

Bruce Luckhurst Workshops - Instructor in furniture restoration, conservation, and fine furniture making teaching in North America, Great Britain, Europe, and Scandinavia.

By Jimeny Solid Custom Furniture - Provides selective instruction in woodworking and also teaches numerous classes throughout the Atlanta area.

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship - Offers workshops, twelve-week intensives, and a nine-month comprehensive, taught by an international faculty in Rockport, Maine.

Chippendale International School of Furniture - Full breadth curriculum in a 30-week format that takes the student from timber identification to setting up a business. Located in Edinburgh Scotland.

College of the Redwoods - Fine furniture woodworking school located in Northern California, offering 1-2 week summer workshops as well as a nine-month comprehensive program. Founded in 1982 by James Krenov.

Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking - Offering one- to 5-day classes in furniture making, woodcarving, woodturning, furniture finishing and related crafts. Located in Manchester, Connecticut and associated with the local Woodcraft store.

Conover Workshops - Teaches traditional woodworking and woodturning techniques with noted author Ernie Conover and other expert instructors.

Country Workshops Woodworking School - Focusing on traditional craftsmanship with hand tools. Classes offered in chairmaking, carving, boxmaking, and spoonmaking. Located an hour from Ashville, NC

The Craft Connection - Courses offered in woodworking, routing and woodturning.

David Charlesworth Fine Furniture Making Courses - Noted author David Charlesworth offers both short (5-days) and long (12-week) furniture making courses at his workshop in Hartland, Devon, UK.

David Savage - Fine Furniture Maker - Offering six-month to one-year length courses in contemporary furniture making and design. Located in the Village of Shebbear, UK.

Dogwood Institute of Fine Woodworking - Provides information on classes schedules and directions.

Fine Furniture Maker School of Woodworking - Classes offered in contemporary furniture design and construction by a working craftsman. Located in Devon, UK.

Four Sisters Woodworking Instruction - Offering custom taylored, one- to two-week long, one-one-one instruction for beginning to advanced students. Located in Fort Bragg, CA.

Furniture Design, Product Design And Woodworking - Art and Design Department of Northern Michigan University offers four-year B.S., B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in furniture design, product design and woodworking.

Furniture Institute of Massachusetts - Both Full-time (20 months) and part-time (2- to 10-day) classes in furniture making are offered by Phil Lowe at his Beverly, MA studio.

Heartwood School - Teaching skills and knowledge for building energy-efficient homes with programs dealing in all aspects of the homebuilding crafts, including timber framing, cabinet making, and finish carpentry.

The Home Shop Woodworking School - One to four day long woodworking classes offered in Shaker box making, plane making, dovetails, and paddle making. Classes held in Charlotte, Michigan.

Homestead Heritage Woodworking School - Offers classes from one- to twelve-days in hand-tool woodworking. School is part of a larger homestead training facility located near Waco, Texas.

Homestead Woodworking School - Schedule of courses, registration procedure, location, and information concerning Homestead Woodworking School in New Hampshire.

J D Lohr School of Woodworking - Pennsylvania-based woodworking school offering machine-based woodworking instruction. Focus is on practical, tablesaw, jointer, planer, and router production techniques for beginner through advanced levels.

Jack Teegarden Woodcarver - Offers carving classes in Atlanta, Michigan. Gallery of carvings and student testimonials.

John C. Campbell Folk School - Classes for adults in a variety of folk arts including woodworking, woodcarving, and woodburning. Located in Brasstown, North Carolina.

John Lloyd Fine Furniture - Offering a series of two to five day classes in furniture making. Classes for beginners through advanced studies. Located in East Sussex.

JSR School of Woodworking - Classes offered from the woodworking basics to the Maloof style rocking chair in a part-time professional shop environment. Located in Hickory, NC.

Kelly Mehler's School of Woodworking - Offers a variety of hands-on woodworking classes that cover an array of techniques and various finished pieces.

Le nombre d'or - Offering lectures and technical training, for up to one year, for all levels of skill in restoration and conservation of wooden gilded objects. Located in Paris.

Lonnie Bird's School of Fine Woodworking - Hands-on woodworking instruction by author Lonnie Bird. Classes include furniture making, carving, joinery, and chair making. School is located in Dandrige, Tennessee.

Marc Adams School of Woodworking - Instructional classes on every form of woodworking from basic design to finishing techniques. Located in Franklin, Indiana, but offers lectures and seminars across the country.

New City Arts Woodworking - A cooperative woodworking school and shop offering one- to six-day woodworking classes for beginners and intermediate skill levels. Located in downtown Seattle, Washington.

New England School Of Architectural Woodworking - Offering a 37 week architectural training program, and 10 week evening classes in woodworking. Located in Easthampton, MA.

North Bennet Street School Programs - Training people for employment since 1885 for work in fields that require craftsmanship and skillful use of hand tools and power equipment.

North Country Studio Workshops - Offering woodworking classes for intermediate and advanced woodworkers. Located in Deerfield, NH

North House Folk School - In addition to folk studies and crafts, this non-profit school offers various entry level woodworking, timberframing, and boatbuilding classes. Most classes are three days in length or less. Located in Grand Marais, MN.

The Northwest Woodworking Studio - Offers a variety of seminars and workshops. Also, five- and ten-week courses and a 2-year comprehensive program are also available. Located in Portland Oregon.

Old English Furniture & Cabinet Co. - Offering one- to four-day classes and workshops on tool use, finishing, joinery, frame and panel construction, etc. Located in Selmer, TN

Olde Mill Cabinet Shoppe - Olde Mill Cabinet Shoppe specializes in 18th c American Furniture and wood restoration supplies along with offering classes in "Philidelphia Style" cabinet making. Occasional classes and courses offered by Gene Landon of Fine Woodworking Magazine.

Outdoor Craftsman School - Bjorklund Ranch Sawmill - Learn how to mill wood from a log to finished lumber at this outdoor working sawmill. Beginning timber framing classes are also offered. Located near Santa Barbara, California.

Palomar College Cabinet & Furniture Technology - Offers courses ranging from Furniture Design, Timber Framing, Guitar building, to Production Cabinetmaking. Four full-time and sixteen part-time instructors teach at this 2,000 student school located in San Marcos, California.

Passion for Wood - Classes, group seminars, and individual training offered in various woodworking techniques. Courses of one-to-three weeks in length are offered that are both project-based and skills-based. Located in Acton, Ontario CA

Philadelphia Furniture Workshop - Offering a broad range of seminars, workshops, and classes ranging from one to three days. Students learn on traditional joiners benches. Located in a 1920s factory building in Philadelphia, PA.

Pocahontas Woods - Degree and non-degree job skills courses such as hand tools and basic machines, drawing, design and technical writing. Located in Marlinton, West Virginia.

Red Rocks Community College - Located in Lakewood,Colorado. Provides woodworking programs for beginners and professionals. Offers several vertificates and degree.

Rhode Island School of Design - Furniture Design - Undergraduate and Graduate degrees are offered in Furniture Design. Located in Providence, RI.

Rob Cosman Workshops - Noted Canadian woodworker, Rob Cosman, offers four and five day hand tool workshops in Oakville, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta.

Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery - Since 1977, school has offered 5-month long master craftsman level classes in guitar making and repair.

Rosewood Studio - School of Fine Woodworking - Offering one-day to nine-month woodworking classes in all aspects of woodworking including furniture making and a "tutored build" program, where students receive one-on-one instruction on a flexible time schedule. Located in Almonte, Ontario, Canada (Ottawa).

Rustic Videos - Videos of the construction techniques for building adirondack rustic furniture and decorative decoys

RVP~1875 Furniture Classes - Six-week long furniture making classes are held in an historical furniture shop setting using methods in use circa 1875. Classes are held in Story City, Iowa at the workshops of Robby V. Pedersen.

Spring Harvest Fine Woodworking - One to six day classes offered primarily for the beginning woodworker. School is located in San Antonio, Texas.

Swann Woodwork School of Woodwork - Offering one-on-one and small classes focused on beginning woodwork and finishing techniques from a working fine furniture builder located in Tampa, Florida.

Ted Harlan Woodworking School - Instruction includes wood basics, advanced joinery, lutherie, furniture, guitar making and construction. Located in Louisville, Kentucky

Tillers International - Woodworking - This homesteading training center offers classes in practical historical woodworking, such as timber framing, chairmaking, wheel wrighting, cart wrighting, and coopering. Located on 450 acres near Scotts, MI

Turning Point Studios - Offering 3-day to month-long classes in furnituremaking, boxmaking, chairmaking, and carving. Located in Atlanta, GA.

White Mountain Designs - Offers an interactive CD based woodworking course containing 35 lessons, including hand tools, machines, veneering, and joinery.

The Wild Earth School - Offering classes in basic skills, wood turning, cabinetmaking, chair-making, carving, and furniture making. Located near Hudson, WI.

Willam Ng School of Fine Woodworking - Offers classes in all areas of woodworking, but with an emphsis on furniture building. School is located in Anaheim, California.

The Windsor Institute - Exclusively dedicated to teaching Windsor chair-making this school founded by chair maker Mike Dunbar in 1980, offers five day classes two to three times each month. Located in Hampton, NH.

The Windsor Workshop - Offering 5-day classes in various styles of Windsor chair making. Located in West Chiltington, Pulborough, West Sussex, UK

Woodsmith Woodworking Seminars - One-hour seminars held weekly in a 200-seat woodworking shop/classroom. Also, free "how to" videos are available on their website. Seminars are presented by the editors of Woodsmith, ShopNotes, and Workbench magazines. Located in Des Moines, Iowa.

Woodstyle Design - Extensive instruction offered in woodworking and furniture making.

WoodWorker Academy - Offering regularly scheduled classes in fundamentals, hand tool, power tool, cabinet making, furniture design, and box making. Located in Alameda, CA (Bay Area).

The Woodworking Academy and Routing Academy - Provides courses and tuition in all aspects of woodworking and Routing. Located in Nottinghamshire, UK.

The Woodworking School - Offering classes in cabinetmaking, chair building, wooden canoe building, and longbow construction, among others. Located in Sumner, WA (Tacoma).