Philadelphia Furniture Workshop is a woodworking school offering courses to all levels of woodworkers, from the raw novice to serious amateur. PFW offers classes that are project based, classes that focus on narrower fields such as individual tools or particular techniques, and courses that are specially designed to get the new woodworker up to speed in a safe, deliberate and organized fashion.
We also offer design and build classes, and master classes for the aspiring cabinetmaker or furniture maker whose aim is to work at a high-level of skill and create work that reflects personal expression. Classes are small and are taught by highly skilled professional designer/makers with experience teaching a wide range of woodworking skills and techniques.
If you are a new woodworker, the Beginner Courses, Basic Skills Courses and Learning Series are good places to start. If you have some experience or just want to make a specific project, try our Projects Course listings. Private instruction can really speed up the learning process an allow you to safely and confidently work through a project of your own.
We also offer design and build classes, and master classes for the aspiring cabinetmaker or furniture maker whose aim is to work at a high-level of skill and create work that reflects personal expression. Classes are small and are taught by highly skilled professional designer/makers with experience teaching a wide range of woodworking skills and techniques.
If you are a new woodworker, the Beginner Courses, Basic Skills Courses and Learning Series are good places to start. If you have some experience or just want to make a specific project, try our Projects Course listings. Private instruction can really speed up the learning process an allow you to safely and confidently work through a project of your own.
Services
Take your woodworking to the next level with PFW's one-on-one instruction.
Private instruction is a great way to really hone your woodworking skills and build the projects you've dreamed of making.
You'll learn safe and effective methods for working through a project or focus on traditional techniques while realizing your woodworking goals.
The rate for private instruction is $75 per hour.
In order to make serious progress on your project, we require a 4-hour minimum per visit.
Please email us at philadelphiafurnitureworkshop@gmail.com or call us at 215-849-5174 to discuss the project or skills you would like to focus on.
Private instruction is a great way to really hone your woodworking skills and build the projects you've dreamed of making.
You'll learn safe and effective methods for working through a project or focus on traditional techniques while realizing your woodworking goals.
The rate for private instruction is $75 per hour.
In order to make serious progress on your project, we require a 4-hour minimum per visit.
Please email us at philadelphiafurnitureworkshop@gmail.com or call us at 215-849-5174 to discuss the project or skills you would like to focus on.
To deliver expert woodworking instruction that joins practical skills development with creative problem solving to raise the confidence and craftsmanship of each student in a dynamic and inclusive environment.
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop, founded by Alan Turner in 2006, began as a woodworking school, offering a variety of project based and skill-based courses.
Noted author and woodworker Mario Rodriguez joined the school in mid-2006 and taught here until his retirement in mid 2017.
Over the years the course offerings expanded, so that PFW taught not only basic furniture making skills, but also operated at the other end of the spectrum, teaching highly sophisticated pieces, ranging from a Hepplewhite butler's chest with fitted gallery to an appropriately decorated Federal period card table to a Chippendale corner chair with hand carved ball and claw feet.
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop, founded by Alan Turner in 2006, began as a woodworking school, offering a variety of project based and skill-based courses.
Noted author and woodworker Mario Rodriguez joined the school in mid-2006 and taught here until his retirement in mid 2017.
Over the years the course offerings expanded, so that PFW taught not only basic furniture making skills, but also operated at the other end of the spectrum, teaching highly sophisticated pieces, ranging from a Hepplewhite butler's chest with fitted gallery to an appropriately decorated Federal period card table to a Chippendale corner chair with hand carved ball and claw feet.
Located in a 1920's factory building, the PFW furniture making school and workshop is both a teaching facility and a working shop.
For wood working courses it features a hardwood floor, with both a bench area and areas for machine work and assembly.
The bench area contains 12 traditional joiners workbenches.
North windows across the front of the building provide abundant natural light.
Mortisers, radial-arm drill press, edge and spindle sanders along with additional supporting machines, jigs and supplies that help students move smoothing through the learning and making process.
For wood working courses it features a hardwood floor, with both a bench area and areas for machine work and assembly.
The bench area contains 12 traditional joiners workbenches.
North windows across the front of the building provide abundant natural light.
Mortisers, radial-arm drill press, edge and spindle sanders along with additional supporting machines, jigs and supplies that help students move smoothing through the learning and making process.
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