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Intro to Joinery: Build a Footstool

Hudson River Maritime Museum
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Strengthen your woodworking skills by building a durable footstool using traditional joinery techniques. Learn to create half-lap, mortise-and-tenon, and stop-tenon joints while practicing design, layout, marking, and assembly. Designed for those with prior woodworking experience, this hands-on project emphasizes precision craftsmanship and strong, lasting construction.

  • Intermediate
  • 13 and older
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  • 86 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY
  • 14 hours over 2 sessions
Intro to Joinery: Build a Footstool
Intro to Joinery: Build a Footstool

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Sat. Feb 20, 2027, 9am ET (2 sessions)

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Sat. Feb 20th, 9am–4pm ET
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Practice your hand tool skills and find out how to make basic wood joints through building your own footstool, which can also be used as a step stool. You will learn how to make half-lap joints, mortise and tenon, and stop tenons, with each joint used to maximize the full strength of wood. Using joinery instead of fasteners ensures your piece will be high quality, solid, and long-lasting.

You will practice skills that can be applied to many fields of woodworking: design, layout, marking, hand tool use, bandsaw, and assembly.

This class is designed as a follow-up to our Foundations of Woodworking: Hand Tools and Machine Tools classes, prerequisites which give you basic skills in handling the tools that will be used in this class. Students with equivalent shop experience are also encouraged to apply.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Woodworking machine tools and hand tools classes, or equivalent shop experience.

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  • Full refunds less a 5% processing fee will be offered for cancellations that occur 32 days or more before a program's registration deadline (if no deadline, the first day of the program).
  • Cancellations between 31 and 9 days will be offered a 50% refund or credit toward another class.
  • Cancellations after the registration deadline or within 8 days of the first day of class (whichever comes first) will not be refunded.
  • In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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Hudson River Maritime Museum

The Hudson River Maritime Museum, located on the historic Rondout waterfront, is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the maritime heritage of the Hudson River and its tributaries and teaching residents about these facets. With a collection of historical artifacts, educational programs, and annual exhibits, the museum offers a unique glimpse into the region's rich maritime history.

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