| Because
woodworkers need both good tools and the know-how
to use them effectively, Shopsmith maintains a renowned
woodworking school in our home town of Dayton, Ohio. For
almost three decades, we have provided hands-on training to
men and women here at the Academy, helping them to work wood safely and
successfully. Now we bring that same quality
instruction directly to your home workshop via the Internet.
Hands Online! is web instruction with a personal twist. |
A sofa table and a lowboy
created by one of our students, John Levin, here at the
Shopsmith National Woodworking Academy. |
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Streaming
Woodworking |
Twenty-four hours a day, we send video streams of woodworking
information
from our Academy in Dayton, Ohio. Some of these are
live. You can make comments
or ask questions during the webcast! Others are
on-demand videos -- watch them whenever you want.
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Sawdust Sessions
-- Twice a month, we web cast two hours of live instruction
on topics that you request on our Woodworking Forum.
Participants can ask questions and make comments. Register
HERE.
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Video Shop Tips
-- Once a week, we send short videos with one or more
woodworking tips.
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Sign Up to receive our
Shop Tips and Sawdust Sessions as soon
as we post them.
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Nick and Drew "webcasting" from
the Shopsmith "webshop." |
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Classes & Seminars |
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We haven't forsaken
our real Academy for the virtual one. In fact, we've made
it better. Once a year in July, we hold live classes and
seminars at the Academy in Dayton, Ohio. In these
six-day classes you
immerse yourself in woodworking, get hands-on experience with
Shopsmith tools, and build an heirloom project. One of the
weekends between the classes is designated as an Owner's Weekend
-- three days of non-stop seminars, demonstrations, tool swaps,
and shoptalk. |
Our Academy facilities in
Dayton, Ohio |
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VBooks™ |
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If you enjoy woodworking DVDs,
you'll like our VBooks™
even better. Like a DVD each Shopsmith VBook presents video
woodworking demonstrations and information.
To each video we add additional materials -- close-up photos,
illustrations, plans, instructions, links, sources,
articles, programs, whatever you need to delve into the subject
as deeply as you want and master it. All of these work together
to create a unique entertaining and educational experience. |
Our newest educational product --
the Shopsmith VBook. It plays on computers with DVD drives. |
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Sharing with Owners |
You can learn so much from the
good people who use our tools, and many of our owners are ready,
willing, and qualified to answer your woodworking questions our
show off their stuff.
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Woodworker's
Forum -- We have
one of the most active owner's forums on the 'Net, as well
as one of the most pleasant and the most helpful. This is
not a boast; just a plain fact. These are great folks.
- Owner's Gallery
(under construction)
-- Many of these folks love to take you on virtual tours of
their shops and show you what they've built. This is a great
place to get ideas for project design and shop layout.
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Our Academy is where folks come
to exchange woodworking information.
We have have always felt that we learn as much or more from
Shopsmith owners as they do from us. |
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And there's still more HERE! |
