Jointer Plane Making & Name Stamp Workshops
At the Woodright’s School in Pittsboro NC
Are you interested in meeting and taking a woodworking class with Roy Underhill of the Woodwright’s Shop and Woodwright’s School? (Along with Peter Ross the former master of the Colonial Williamsburg Anderson Forge and Bill Anderson a master plane maker – both of which have been on Roy’s show)
I talked to Roy and the guys and they were willing to do a special run of the two workshops below on the following dates*: Arrive July 8th class 9-12th leave the 13th at Roy’s School in Pittsboro NC
* (Given the very long drive from NH down to NC I wanted to try and get a few days in a row down at Roy’s school to get the most I could out of the trip, and I am very appreciative they were willing to do so, but we need a few more people to sign up in order to run it) So if you are interested in one or both of these sessions I encourage you to sign up soon.
http://www.woodwrightschool.com/name-stamps-w-peter-ross/
1 Day class $145 + $40 materials
http://www.woodwrightschool.com/making-bench-planes-wbill/
3 Day class $425 + $115 materials (beech + plane iron etc) to make a massive single iron jointer plane
Total: $725 Tuition and materials for 4 days + your own food and lodging. I will be driving down (11hour drive from NH) and if folks from NBSS or the general Boston area are interested in joining me I can carpool. Hotels in the area are $55-100/night. Info from Roy on what it’s like to take a class at his school can be found here.
I also hear there is a good pizzeria behind the school that Roy has been known occasionally have a drink with the students after class and above the school is an old time used tool shop that has similar stuff to what we hunt for at the Nashua Tool show.
If folks are interested, we could also take an extra day to go see nearby Old Salem, which is home to the Museum of Southern Decorative Arts and a Moravian living history museum much like Colonial Williamsburg. http://www.oldsalem.org/ It’s kind of a crazy adventure, but I think it would be a memorable experience.
For more info, please contact me or sign up at Roy’s site:
You can reach Bill Rainford at: (My firstname ‘dot’ lastname at facebook.com) — or via my blog or my linkedin page
Rainford Restorations 
I would absolutely LOVE to make a name stamp, as my collection is rather large, and I”ve name stamped none of them. And even though the cost of the class is reasonable and I would certainly enjoy it, the distance and additional costs of travel and stay put me out of the running.
Is there ANY chance this could be made as a video or something other form of knowledge transfer, for those of us out of range? My main question, how do I get the set of reverse letters?
Wish I could be there. I’d love to check out the shop upstairs as well, but now is just not the time.
Sorry. Good luck with the classes though.
Pete
Briley Woodworks
I’ll talk to Peter when I take the class. He recently released a DVD on forging a pair of dividers, so maybe that would be a topic he’d cover in a future video.
Take care,
-Bill