In this M&T course, professional blacksmith and teacher Jordan Goodwin unlocks the secrets of blacksmithing for the average woodworker. Beginning with a cold forge and a collection of simple tools, Jordan illustrates many of the essential skills of the blacksmith including nailmaking, modifying tools to suit, forging chest hardware, making hook-and-eye latches, fashioning snipe hinges, and heat-treating old tools.

Learn to fell trees and hew timbers with an axe for traditional timber-frame construction. Join timber framer, Nevan Carling, as he walks you through each step of the process in this ancient craft. Accessible, approachable, and endlessly fascinating. If you’re a woodworker, you’ve really got to try hand hewing for yourself. Once you do, you’ll never look at a tree the same way again.

Old tools are high-quality, beautiful, and often available at bargain prices. But many woodworkers today feel that they lack the skill to rejuvenate the relics they find in their local flea markets. In this course, Joshua Klein and Mike Updegraff provide a thorough, no-nonsense approach to selecting, cleaning, repairing, and tuning up heritage tools for the shop.

Inspired by no-nonsense wisdom of the past, this course is designed to offer freedom from jigs and build skills of precision and speed. The aim is to help woodworkers overcome their dependence on jigs, not in order to become more pure or elite, but so they can become more free. With more than 5 hours of video instruction and other valuable course materials, Skills Over Jigs will equip you for efficient handwork.

You’ve got to see it to believe it. In this course, Joshua Klein provides a guided tour through more than a dozen pieces of period furniture, studying the work of the masters of our craft. He looks at the design, construction, and workmanship of chairs, tables, chests, desks, and a cupboard. If you want to better understand what no-nonsense handcraft has always looked like, this is the course for you.

In this course, Joshua unravels the unjustified mystique of hand-tool woodworking. He covers tools, sharpening, lumber processing, and all the essential joinery: mortise and tenons, dovetails, rabbets, dadoes. The last lesson introduces shellac and milk paint. Klein teaches us that working by hand is a surprisingly efficient and viable option for the 21st-century woodworker.

Joshua Klein is determined to teach the efficiencies and tolerances of pre-industrial woodworking, and he believes seeing it in the context of a build is important. In this course, Klein demonstrates the skills and conveys the mindset to approach any table build without elaborate plans or expensive (and dangerous) machines. The table built here features almost all the variations you will encounter in your own build.

A back-to-the-roots look at vernacular woodworking. Rather than focusing on the use of dried, dimensioned stock at the bench, Michael Updegraff brings you into the woods. Felling trees, drawknives, sharpening, and shaping a new hatchet haft – you can learn to work wood with the deeper understanding that wood is a living, changing material. Knowing the difference this makes will help anyone become a better woodworker.