Kelly Mehler School Of Woodworking Handmade Woodworking Bench

The woodworking school at pine croft is now part of the berea college family.

Demonts woodworking free woodworking plans beginners. Nancy hiller author designer cabinet maker instructor just to name a few investigated the connection between the recent addition of pine croft to berea colleges long history. During the last five years kelly and his students have been building different style benches with all manner of vises and accessories for the school in berea ky. That was interrupted in january 2015 when mehler was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

For this first season he has been the only teacher in the classes which concentrate on. Peoples schedules change and so many of. If the classes fill up i encourage you to sign up for the waiting list.

Kelly mehler has opened the registration for his 2008 classes including three classes that ill be teaching on precision handsawing planecraft and building the holtzapffel workbench from issue 8 of woodworking magazine. Building custom pieces that emphasize the beauty of carefully selected hardwoods. School woodworking bench the portable moravian workbench at the woodwrights school.

If you ever want to try out a lot of different workbench designs before you settle on building one for your shop you might want to take a class at kelly mehlers school of woodworking. Its something the woodworker and contributor to woodworkers journal magazine has been thinking about for years often at the suggestion of others. Ill take snow any day or even the endless gray of february over 95 degrees with suffocating humidity.

And i havent given up on that quest. There are still spots available as of this posting. When kelly mehler called a few weeks ago and asked me to teach a five day class at his school i was elated.

Even so im looking forward to at least one week in the summer of 2015. I am so not a summer person. July 22 2020 history and future hopes.

Christopher schwarz editor of popular woodworking magazine documents the fourth day of his workbench class at kelly mehlers school of woodworking in berea ky. This article originally appeared in the december 2013 issue of popular woodworking. Nestled in the rural appalachian foothills about two miles from berea kentucky the kelly mehler school of woodworking had been offering world class woodworking instruction since 2004.

Song the arkansas traveler meets. The kelly mehler school of woodworking opened in berea kentucky for its first season this year. F or years ive been trying to cajole kelly mehler to write an article for us on one of his many areas of woodworking expertise.

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