Rob Chamberlin & Aaron Fedarko
August 31 – September 4
Participants get hands-on experience at cutting a full range of essential woodworking joints with power tools and hand tools. Rob and Aaron provide guidance in choosing the right joint for the job, while teaching precise and safe construction methods for joinery typically found in casework and furniture. These include mortise and tenons, mitered joints, housed joints, finger joints, dovetails, and sliding dovetails.
Students work with routers, biscuit jointers, Dominos, band saws, table saws, slot mortisers, and hollow chisel mortisers, as well as with hand saws and chisels. They leave with confidence in their ability to wed two sticks together so they stay married. This is an excellent class for students who want to build on the skills they learned in Basic Woodworking.
Rob Chamberlin is a self-employed designer/woodworker in Kalamazoo, MI, with more than 25 years of experience in the field. His clients include interior designers, contractors, architects, and private individuals, for projects that range from fine furniture to architectural woodwork to repair and replication. Rob was a Workshop Assistant at CFC in 2010, a Fellow in 2011, and has taught Just Joinery for several years now. His website is rchamberlinwoodworking.com.
Aaron Fedarko is an independent furniture designer/maker in mid-coast Maine. In 2007, after 16 years in the corporate world, he completed our Nine-month Comprehensive, participated in our Fellowship program, and set up shop as a furniture maker. In addition to ongoing commission work, Aaron has been a Lead Instructor for the Furniture Intensive since 2014. He also served as an Artisan Mentor for Greenwood, a nonprofit organization that teaches woodworking skills and sustainable forest management to rural communities in Latin America. Aaron’s furniture has been featured in 500 Chairs (Lark Books, 2008) and 500 Cabinets (Lark Books, 2010). His website is fedarkofurniture.com.
Open to all.
