Adirondack Chair - Intermediate Furniture-making

What’s better than kicking back in an outdoor lounge chair on a hot summer evening, cracking open a cold beverage and looking up at the stars? Building that chair yourself!

Over the course of five weekly sessions, we’ll show you how to prepare a cut list, lay out parts on milled stock, rough-cut with the band saw, set up router templates, evaluate structural requirements, and best practices for assembly and finishing with an eye toward outdoor longevity. And by the end, you’ll go home with a beautiful and functional Adirondack-style lounge chair that will last for many summers to come!

Prerequisite: Requires completion of our Intro to Woodworking course or extensive prior woodworking experience

Please read the schedule carefully and make sure you can attend every class. In the event that you have to miss a class, there is a fee associated with make-up classes.

We can provide temporary storage for your unfinished piece during the run of the course, but your finished chair must be taken with you immediately after the final class.

Cancellation: You can cancel your ticket for a refund (minus a 3.5% fee to cover our credit card processing costs) at any point up to 7 days prior to your scheduled class date. Cancellation for any reason within 7 days of your scheduled class will be non-refundable. No-shows are considered non-refundable cancellations.

Rescheduling: You can reschedule your ticket to another date (subject to availability) at no cost at any point up to 7 days prior to your scheduled class date. Rescheduling requests within 4-7 days of your class date will incur a $300 rescheduling fee. No rescheduling will be permitted for any reason within 4 days of your scheduled class start date/time. So for example, the cutoff would be 9am Tuesday for a class starting Saturday 9am. If no other class dates are available at the time of your request, we can move you to a placeholder event until new dates open up.

Missing classes: It’s important that none of our students fall too far behind on their project, and because we don’t have time during class to catch up students who missed a class, you’ll need to schedule a makeup session with one of our instructors to catch you up outside of class. The first makeup session is done at a reduced rate of $50/hr; any subsequent makeup sessions are at our standard rate of $125/hour.

Usually a makeup session is between one and two hours. If that’s not possible, you’ll need to simply pay one of the instructors to get your project back on schedule (same rates as the makeup sessions)