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March 2016 Newsletter
  • Class Profile: Hand Tool Woodworking Series...And Announcing a Class Discount! 
  • Tiny Homes & Gypsy Wagons Open House: Photos of the Festivities
  • Woodturners of Olympia 2016 Symposium
  • 5th Annual Founders' Breakfast is March 24th!  

  • Profiles in Woodworking: Jaap Romijn, 2016 Founders' Award Recipient
  • Woodworking Inspiration: Jaap's Table
Class Profile: Hand Tool Woodworking Series...And Announcing a Class Discount! 

Have you been wanting to try woodworking with handtools? Envision yourself a future hand tool aficionado? Intrigued by the thought of woodworking without the noise of power tools? 

Spend five days (or ten) and immerse yourself in the world of hand tool woodworking: e xperience the purposeful quiet of the bench room and the sound of sharp tools on wood. 

Preserving the tradition of hand tool woodworking is at the core of the School's mission and practice. The course  Hand Tool Heaven was originally designed by Jim Tolpin, who has since passed the mantle to instructor Matthew Straughn-Morse. 

In Hand Tool Heaven, you'll learn core hand tool techniques, along with plenty of tips and tricks. Comments from past students:

"Excellent information, good pace and reasonable progression of projects."

"I was excited to hear the history and principles behind every cut we do".

Deepen your skills with next-step courses: Just Joints, Joinery Essentials: Chisel Cabinet, Build a Side Table and Build a Workbench, where you'll refine techniques learned in Hand Tool Heaven and gain new skills- not to mention leave with a beautifully built project! 

Are you in? Now  for the class discount...

Here's how it works:

Register for Hand Tool Heaven and we'll send
you a $100 discount code for one of the next-step classes.

If you've taken Hand Tool Heaven (since 2008) you are already eligible.
Look for an email 
with the discount code in the next few days.

The eligible next-step classes are:
Joinery Essentials: Chisel Cabinet (May 23-28)
Build a Side Table (June 6-11)
Just Joints (June 27-July 1, August 22-26)
Build a Workbench
 (July 18-23)


Tiny Homes & Gypsy Wagons Open House: Photos From the Festivities
 
A b ig thank you to everyone who joined us for our Open House last weekend. It's great to see so much enthusiasm around Tiny Houses and Gypsy Wagons, and we can't wait for our Tiny Homes class in April! 


Woodturners of Olympia 2016 Symposium & Workshops
 
Join the Woodturners of Olympia for their 2016 Symposium (July 23rd) & Workshops (July 24th-27th). Featuring internationally recognized woodturner Michael Hosaluk and woodturner Bob Espen, the event will take place at Olympia High School. 

Have you RSVP'd for the Founders' Breakfast?
 
RSVP Deadline extended to 3/21.
Profiles in Woodworking: Jaap Romijn, 2016 Founders' Award Recipient

"The creative process is the heart of woodworking..."

Our 2016 Founders' Award recipient Jaap Romijn has been a friend of the School since the beginning, as a founding Board Member.
 
Most recently, he shared his talent for furniture design as the designer of the porch furniture sets built for the Fort Worden PDA, which now grace the porches of Officer's Row houses. 

Here, Jaap shares thoughts on woodworking and his path to becoming an artist and craftsperson.   

Woodworking Inspiration: Jaap's Table