Since 1996, we have been providing the tools, materials, knowledge, and space to help realize your dreams in wood. Enjoy state-of-the-art equipment and the camaraderie of other woodworkers in our 3000 square foot workshop. We have everything you need to take you from idea to finished product. Click on Membership to see our flexible options.
While we’ve worked hard to preserve the essence of the Woodworkers Club, we’ve expanded the Festool selection, introduced American-made Forrest saw blades, added regular demonstrations of Sawstop and Festool to the calendar, and just generally spiffied up the place (and the website!) a little. 2012 will be the year of education!!! Look for a long list of great classes as well as our Visiting Artist Program.
 Matt Nauman | Matt Nauman is the Woodworkers Club Director of Education. He holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Fine Art, with concentrations in Furniture Design. Matt also has an extensive list of commissioned works, exhibitions, and publications to his name. He has worked with noted contemporary furniture makers and wood turners including Chris Weiland, Steve Loar, Alphonse Mattia, Andy Buck, David Ellsworth, Betty Scarpino, and Michael Hosaluk to name a few. Matt resides in Frederick, Maryland with his wife Emily. |
 Amy Bender | Amy is a displaced Chicagoan who has come to woodworking via the opposite end of the tree’s life-cycle, having been in landscaping in various guises for the past seven years. An inveterate traveler, Amy has spent time observing, working with, and learning from woodworkers of various global traditions, from American chainsaw artists to African wood carvers who first must fashion their carving chisels and gouges out of silverware with rudimentary hand tools. She is in charge of making sure the bills get paid on time, and that there’s goodwill enough to go ‘round. |
 Chris Johnstone | I have lived most of my life in the area and prior to joining the staff at The Woodworkers Club worked as a Contractor and Sub-contractor in the building trades in MD, DC and VA. Most recently I ran high-end remodeling projects for Joseph Klockner & Co. out of Takoma Park Maryland and over the last thirty years have been involved in a variety of building projects in residential as well as commercial markets. I have a well developed knowledge of building practices, architectural renderings, cabinet making, hardware, power tools, large equipment and most construction materials. I have enjoyed working with wood in one form or another since childhood and find sharing what I know and learning what I don’t at the club immensely gratifying. |
 Pete Schlebeker | Pete Schlebecker has been designing and working in wood for 27 years. He lives in Kensington Maryland with his wife, Judi, and operates his own studio furniture design business, www.schlebeckerstudios.com. Pete earned his MFA in furniture design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and was the staff instructor and facilities manager at the the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine for 7 years. He now teaches at the Woodworker’s Club, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. He also is a contributor to Fine Woodworking Magazine, and has exhibited his work nationally. |
 Les Henig | Les Henig has been making sawdust and woodworking projects for over 40 years. Never formally trained, he learned to use tools by watching his Dad make household repairs. With a lot of reading and practice, he has become fairly proficient in many areas of woodworking. That reading led to a fine appreciation of the spare designs of James Krenov and the organic work of George Nakashima. Over the years, working from his own designs he built projects ranging from large storage sheds to a small jewelry box. His work has encompassed rough carpentry to fine woodworking. Les currently teaches Bandsaw Techniques & Fundamentals of Woodworking both The Woodworkers Club and VisArts. |
 Mark Gardner | I live and work in Saluda, NC. I’ve been working with wood since I was a teenager. Since I took my first wood turning class in 1996 with John Jordan I’ve been working towards the goal of supporting myself through my woodwork. Much of my turned work is carved and textured once it comes off the lathe. My influences include Clay Foster and Kristina Madsen as well as Oceanic and African art and artifacts. I’ve taught at craft schools around the country and have been a demonstrator for many clubs and regional wood turning symposia. My work is found in public collections including the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina. |
 Tony Perry | Tony teaches our scroll saw classes. In one of his former lives he restored antique furniture. If Amy had her way he would be here every day. |
 Scott Dixon | Scott has been instrumental to the development of the kits, tool selection, the teaching program for stores and the Teach the Teacher program. He studied with Tom Knatt from Concord, MA and has taken that experience to help build in the expertise as a consultant for U.S. Guitar Kits.With over thirty years playing guitar and many years involved in woodworking, it just made sense to put the two skills together. |
 Lonnie Williams | Lonnie was born in Carrollton Missouri. He currently lives in Boonsboro Md with his daughter Sarah. He comes from a long line of woodworkers and has been building furniture,cabinets and various carving projects for over 40 years. He's an Air Force veteran and has lived in Korea, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey and has spent time either working or traveling over most of the Northern hemisphere. He has studied with Master Carvers from Europe, Asia, Canada, and the USA. He is a professional Metrologist (he measures things.....everything) and works for a Pharmaceutical company in the DC area. In his spare time he teaches the "Fundamentals of Woodworking" class, and "Basic Carving", "Chip Carving", and "Carved Ball and Claw Cabriole Furniture Leg" classes here at the WoodWorkers Club. |
 Linda Stops | Linda has been involved in woodworking for over 35 years. She’s been with us here at the Woodworkers Club since 2009 and has been on staff since 2010. Linda enjoys mentoring of club members in the shop while she works on her own projects and teaches our Beginning Box Making course. Her woodworking interests and experience ranges from the very large such personally building her own geodesic dome home in Vermont to the very small such as turning pens and tool handles on a lathe. Other projects have included numerous boxes of all types, custom made music stands with handmade inlay, a stool with carved seat and legs, wooden geared clocks and projects using veneer just to name a few. |
 David Fersh | David grew up locally in Bethesda. After leaving the area to receive a BA in Studio Arts at the University of Rochester and a Masters of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, he has returned to the area. David teaches a variety of classes including Beginning Furniture, Lamp Design, and Intro to the CNC. He also serves as the technician for the shops newly acquired CNC machine |
 Stan Green | A virtual institution, Stan has been here since the beginning, but no one but Stan can remember that far back. |
 Matt Nechin | Matt, a charter member of the Woodworkers Club, has been on the staff for about three years. He is a “home grown product” since he started here by taking the “Fundamentals of Woodworking” class. Matt, whose background is in the computer field, was looking for some furniture when he saw the initial advertisement in the paper for the Woodworkers club. He realized that this was an opportunity not only to begin an interesting hobby but also to actually build the furniture he had been looking for.Matt’s other significant activity is doing pet therapy work. He and his dog Shira visit the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the George Washington University Hospital, and the Washington Adventist Hospital, where they participate in formal physical therapy sessions. |
 Clif Poodry | Clif, a master turner, teaches our Beginning & Advanced woodturning classes. If he doesn’t know the answer to a turning question, there is no answer. |
 Michael Hosaluk | Michael Hosaluk is recognized internationally and in Canada as one of the world’s most creative wood “turners”. Born in 1954, in Invernay, Saskatchewan, Hosaluk is self-taught. Hosaluk’s work covers a wide range of objects and materials including functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces. His work is humorous and elegant, possesses character and gesture and is full of reference to architecture, nature and culture. Hosaluk’s work has been exhibited throughout Canada, in Europe, China, Japan, Australia and the United States. |
 Peter Gedrys | For Peter Gedrys a short stint working in a furniture restoration shop led to a passionate interest in the decorative arts, resulting in a career change. His restoration of American and continental furniture developed a deepened appreciation for the broad range of architectural woodwork and its artistic elements. In 1987 Peter opened Architectural Finishes, allowing him to focus on new decorative challenges and explore his own creative process. Opening his own studio enabled Architectural Finishes to offer the same quality of finishing usually reserved for furniture. When not in his shop or on site, he can be found in one of his many gardens. This allows Peter to continually practice a favorite subject, the infinite study of color. As the seasons change, he relaxes by stopping pucks as a goaltender in senior hockey at Yale’s Ingalls Rink. |
 Ernie Conover | Ernie Conover is a highly published author in the woodworking field with seven books, four videos and hundreds of articles to his credit. His work has received numerous awards and been the subject of several one-man shows. He lectures widely for clubs, trade show groups and woodworking stores and is frequently called upon as a consultant and expert witness in the woodworking field. When not writing, lecturing or consulting he is active in providing academic oversight and teaching at Conover Workshops—a craft school founded by the Conover family. |