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List of Woodworking Schools in the Area

Facility	Address	Directions	Website	Comments
New Hampshire
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 Gear template generator Cut List Optimizer 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 Simple circuit simulator 555 Timer Calculator Free PCB Layout Program PCBs JLC PCB OSH Park 4PCB Express PCB DirtyPCBS 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 FAQs Forums Tutorials Gadgets Tips and Tricks 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 AUTOMOTIVE WELDING: SHEETMETAL GUIDE AUTOMOTIVE RIVETS EXPLAINED Gardening Seed bombing Main Menu General Spaces Tools Volunteer Instructors Community Communication Main Website Events Calendar - - - - - - Category:Spaces Category:Tool Category:Member Resources Category:Projects Category:Volunteer Auto Shop Bike Shop Class Room CNC Room Electronics Lab Metal Shop Textiles Lab Wood Shop Category:Tool Tool Manuals MSDS Sheets Category:Volunteer Committees Desk Volunteer Trello Volunteer Log Volunteer Manual Category:Instructor Instructor Handbook Reimbursement Form - paper Reimbursement Form - digital Member Resources Slack - member chat PCMS Facebook Group Helpful Links Board of Directors Committees List of Forms - - - - - - Code of Conduct Maintenance Request Form Facility Issue Reporting Form Entrance Survey Feedback and Suggestions Issue Reporting Form Safety Checkout Form Purchase Request Form