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|In addition to touring the grounds, they give demonstrations and teach several classes including Shaker boxes | |In addition to touring the grounds, they give demonstrations and teach several classes including Shaker boxes | ||
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|Center for Furniture Crafstmanship | |Center for Furniture Crafstmanship | ||
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|Full time school as well as offering continuing education. A wide variety of classes to consider from some really talented crafts people. | |Full time school as well as offering continuing education. A wide variety of classes to consider from some really talented crafts people. | ||
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|Massachusetts | ! scope="row" colspan="5"| Massachusetts | ||
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|The North Bennett Street School | |The North Bennett Street School | ||
|150 North Street | |150 North Street Boston, MA | ||
|http://bit.ly/2Z9FEuP | |http://bit.ly/2Z9FEuP | ||
|https://www.nbss.edu/continuing-education/overview | |https://www.nbss.edu/continuing-education/overview | ||
Revision as of 08:02, 24 August 2019
Wood Working
List of Woodworking Schools in the Area
| Facility | Address | Directions | Website | Comments |
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| Woodcraft of Portsmouth | 25 Fox Run Road Newington, NH 03801 | http://bit.ly/31StCUz | http://bit.ly/2ZbDFlv | Great for one-off classes and workshops, some of which are free. They often have some really talented instructors. Local. |
| Homestead Woodworking School | 52 Bald Hill Rd Newmarket, NH | http://bit.ly/306oYlj | https://www.woodschoolnh.com | Great selection of classes from Shaker boxes to Shaker Candle Stands. You can also reserve time to make your own project with their assistance. Alan Mitchel is the founder and is extremely knowledgeable and has a great shop with every jig imaginable. Classes fill quickly. |
| PETER GALBERT CHAIRMAKER | The Mills at Salmon Falls Room 137 3 Front St. Rollinsford NH | http://bit.ly/2ZcVctW | https://www.petergalbert.com/ | Expert chair maker specializing in Windsor chairs. Talented artist and inventor. Featured often in FWW magazine. Was on the cover of the May/June 2019 issue. |
| Allan Breed School of Woodworking | 1 Front Street Rollinsford, NH 03869 | http://bit.ly/2ZcVctW | https://www.allanbreed.com/ and https://www.allanbreed.com/classes/ | Teaching the design and construction of American 18th century furniture. Extremely talented specializing in 18th century carving techniques. |
| Epic Woodworking | Baptist Road Canterbury NH | http://bit.ly/306oYlj | https://www.epicwoodworking.com/in-shop-classes/ | Tom McLaughlin teaches classes live (in his shop as well as steaming) as well as has an archive of very affordable videos teaching the construction of several pieces of furniture. Sells plans online and has a Youtube channel hosting his own Shop Night Live at 8PM Thursdays with various step by step projects free. Has his own PBS show and is very personable. |
| Canterbury Shaker Village | 288 Shaker Rd Canterbury, NH 03224 | http://bit.ly/2Z7j2XY | http://www.shakers.org/category/shaker-inspired-workshops/woodworking/ | In addition to touring the grounds, they give demonstrations and teach several classes including Shaker boxes |
| Maine | ||||
| Center for Furniture Crafstmanship | 25 Mill St Rockport ME | http://bit.ly/2KANR3c | https://www.woodschool.org/ | Full time school as well as offering continuing education. A wide variety of classes to consider from some really talented crafts people. |
| Massachusetts | ||||
| The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts | 116 Water Street • Beverly, MA 01915 | http://bit.ly/2TDKXxn | http://www.furnituremakingclasses.com | A full time and part time school teaching several workshops for projects specializing in period furniture. Run by Phil Lowe who was the former head of the Furniture and Cabinetry program and the North Bennett Street School and frequent contributor to FWW magazine. Several free videos on his website with techniques. |
| The North Bennett Street School | 150 North Street Boston, MA | http://bit.ly/2Z9FEuP | https://www.nbss.edu/continuing-education/overview | Nine Full Time programs. Offers a great selection of Continuing Education workshops anywhere from one day to three months. Founded in 1888, the premier school for those who want to embark on a career in craftsmanship |
Utilities
Metal
Places to buy metal
- Tuner Steel Co - West Bridgewater, MA
- Mill Metals - Manchester, NH
- Metal Supermarkets - Boston, MA (Mark Y goes there sometimes)
- Metals Depot - Online
- Online Metals - Online
- Speedy Metals
Cutting and Machining services
- Alliant Metals - Hampstead, NH (Stainless mainly, cutting services)
- North East Cutting Die - Portsmouth, NH (machining and cutting services)
Machining
- Making Springs on the Small Lathe
- Open Source Machine Tools - plans for making your own machine tools for low cost (concrete lathe, mill, etc)
Blacksmithing
Local resources:
- Sanborn Mills in Loudon, NH.
- New England Blacksmiths - Blacksmithing classes around the country
- New England School of Metalwork - classes on blacksmithing and bladesmithing
- Morrell Metal Smiths - classes
Electronics
General
- How LCD Screens work
- Batteries
- Electronics Theory
- Sparkfun tutorials
- Ben Krasnow, tutorials on making electron microscope among other cool things
- All about radio
- OpenWrt - open source Linux distribution for embedded devices (like wifi routers)
- USB Made Simple
- Adafruit tutorials
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
- All About Circuits - an extremely active electrical engineering online community that provides both interesting content and useful resources for Electrical Engineers]
- Maker Pro - an active, open source platform for maker projects much like Hack A Day. These projects are centered around Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, home automation and more.
- EE Power - a digital publication focused on the power electronics industry.
- Electronics Point provides both interesting content and useful resources for Electrical Engineers.
- PEI-Genesis a global leader in the design and assembly of custom engineered connectors and cable.
Useful Tools
PCBs
Web Stores
- Sparkfun - kits for soldering classes, solder spools, irons, tools
- iFixIt - tools for phone and device repair
- Spikenzie Labs - kits, parts, goodies
- Mouser - huge electronics manufacturer, has every kind of chip, switch, component
- All Electronics - theoretically everything, has decent prices and a lot of variety
- Electronic Goldmine - bulk parts for cheap, usually discontinued. great for tinkering supplies
- Adafruit - kits, arduinos and arduino clones, Raspberry Pi, wearable electronics
- Pimoroni - British shop for Raspberry Pi
- Pi Hut - UK shop for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit
CNC Routing and Milling
CAM Software
- VCarve Pro
- CamBam
- Easel
- G-Simple
- HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
- MeshCAM
- Rapid PCB to Gcode
- List of other CNC software on Probotix.com
General
- VCarve Pro Introduction
- CNC Dummies for Routers - This Old Tony
- CNC Basics 2 - This Old Tony
- 50 Digital Wood Joints
- Calibrating Feeds and Speeds
- GCode Introduction
- Autotracer - web-based tool to vectorize regular images
- Convert anything to anything
3D Printing
3D Models
- Thingiverse - find 3D models online, share your designs with others
- NASA 3D Resources
- Blender 3D Model Repository
Filament
- Micro Center
- 3D Solutech - also sold cheaper on amazon here
Robotics
- Hebocon - bad robots
- RoboGames!
- Let's Make Robots!
- OpenCV - computer vision for robots and other projects
Automotive
Gardening
Main Menu
| General | Spaces | Tools | Volunteer | Instructors | Community | Communication |
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Reimbursement Form - paper Reimbursement Form - digital
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Slack - member chat |
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