Woodcraft of Chattanooga

Here’s the current demo schedule for our upcoming 10th Anniversary Woodworking Festival on Saturday, October 5. We’ll likely add a few more demos to the rotation once the rest of our vendor attendees have been confirmed, but we wanted to go ahead and announce these so you can begin planning your visit. Hope to see you here!

Here are the results from two of the classes we held over the weekend! In the Date Night session, the couples each made a plant stand to take home, and in the Parent/Child class, the students made a charcuterie board! We’d like to thank all of these folks for spending part of their holiday weekend with us!

This week we’ve got a schedule filled with beginner-level classes, and they all have at least one spot available!

Visit our website to learn more and to register!

Just a reminder that if you’re planning to compete in our upcoming FESTOOL Footstool Contest, you need to register by end of day this Friday, September 6. We currently only have 2 contestants so far and need a minimum of 6 for the contest to be held. Visit our website class listing to view the available time slots and complete the registration process!

Join us on Saturday, October 5 to shop local and support some of our area’s finest woodworkers! We’ll be hosting a Maker’s Market as part of our 10th Anniversary Woodworking Festival, and the vendors will be selling a wide variety of items like charcuterie boards, boxes, pens, bowls, ornaments, home decor, furniture, and more! Don’t miss this chance to get an early start on your Christmas shopping while supporting our local makers!

Maker’s Market at Woodcraft
Saturday, October 5 (10 AM - 4 PM)
5824 Brainerd Rd
Chattanooga, TN 37411

These students completed the final session of our Kitchen Cabinetmaking 200 series today! Great job, gentlemen!

Did you know we offer a wide variety of classes for folks of all ages and skill levels? Make sure to check out our online class listing to see all of the upcoming sessions!

These are the Storewide Savings and Doorbuster Deals that will be featured at our upcoming 10th Anniversary Woodworking Festival! All of these deals are valid one day only (October 5) in store and while supplies last, so don’t miss out!

If you’re looking to add something fun to your social calendar for this week, we’ve got a great selection of classes that are designed specifically for families and friend groups!

🪚 The tuition for our Sawdust Social classes includes materials for two projects, so if you sign up for one spot, you can bring a friend for no extra charge!

🪚 Sign up for our Ladies Day in the Shop class if you want to make some new friends and have fun turning your own pen!

🪚 Bring one of your kiddos to our Parent/Child Charcuterie Board class and spend a couple hours making a charcuterie board that’ll be the centerpiece of your next family gathering!

🪚 Our Date Night at the Wood Shop classes give couples a chance to spend time together making a fun and useful project together. This week’s session is sold out, but we’ve got quite a few on the schedule in the coming weeks!

Visit our website now to reserve your spot for one of these sessions!

We’re glad to have Bill the Box Elder back from vacation, and he jumped back into things with two great classes this week! Check out the results of his Basic Box-Making and Date Night: Pair of Turned Pens classes!

NEW CLASS ALERT: We’re excited to announce the first of many new Ladies Day in the Shop classes taught by Annelyse McKenna! Annelyse has spent quite a bit of time working directly with Wayne on various shop projects and assisting with quite a few classes to build her experience and knowledge base. We’re thrilled to welcome her as an official member of our instructor cadre, and we look forward to seeing her share her passion and knowledge with others!

LADIES DAY IN THE SHOP: TURNING A PEN
Description: Join Annelyse for this fun class to learn how to use the lathe to turn your own wooden pens! The class will cover lathe safety and basic terminology along with the pen turning process, so no prior experience is required. Each student will leave with a completed pen to show off to her friends and family! Please Note: This class is intended for ladies only.
Date: Saturday, August 31 (2 PM - 5 PM)
Tuition: $65

Give us a call or visit our website to reserve your seat today!!

Here’s the latest update for our 2024 Turn for Troops contest. Nashville jumped out to a commanding lead but Chattanooga’s responded and closed the gap since the last update. Don’t forget, you have until November 11 at 11:11 to turn in your completed pens. Thank you to everyone who’s participated!

We’ve got another week filled with a wide variety of classes, including the next round of our Fine Furniture Series! There’s at least one spot available in all of these sessions, so visit our website today to reserve your seat!

Good morning! It’s Tool Bag Day, so if you’re planning a trip to the store today, don’t forget to bring your Woodcraft Tool Bag (or purchase one onsite) to save 20% on everything* you can fit inside! This is a great chance to add some hand tools, router bits, clamps, turning kits, etc.

*Standard exclusions apply, see store for details.

We’ve had quite a few folks take advantage of this SawStop promotion, but we’ve replenished our supply and have lots of contractor and professional cabinet saws in stock! Let us know if you want to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity and save on SawStop cast iron saws!

These students just completed the first edition of our new Kitchen Cabinetmaking 201 class! They’ve spent the last three days building on the skills learned in our Kitchen 101 class and practicing new techniques including: making beaded face frame, creating cove molding on the table saw, and installing adjustable shelf track. Next up: dovetailed drawers and divided panel doors. Can’t wait to see the finished cabinets at the end of the week!

Wow! Check out the results of the Bowl Turning 102: Log to Bowl class this past weekend! The students spent two days learning how to safely process their own blanks from logs and then turn them into bowls. Great job, y’all!

After a 5 year hiatus, we’re excited to announce the return of our FESTOOL Footstool Contest! Register today for a chance to win $500 in FESTOOL Cash! All contestants will receive a t-shirt and will keep the stools made in the contest.

Here’s the info:
- Up to two contestants per team (only need to register for one spot per team)
- Two Divisions: Professional and Amateur (We’re defining professional as anyone who’s been paid to make a piece of furniture and/or owns 4+ FESTOOL Tools)
- Registration Fee: $20 per team
- Three hour time limit
- Material: 1 x 12 x 72 piece of pine
- Must only use FESTOOL tools
- We’ll provide the pine board, glue, tools, clamps, and supplies as well as a safety observer/moderator (no input on design allowed).
- The winning team in each division will receive $500 in FESTOOL Cash. Winners will be determined by criteria including number of FESTOOL Tools used, timeliness, amount of waste produced, and average score received from our panel of judges on appearance, structural integrity, and complexity of design.
- We’ll also award a prize to the People’s Choice Winner as determined by our Facebook audience.

Spots are limited to 6 per division, and you can register either online (linked in bio; filter to Month - October to narrow down the list) or call the store at (423) 710-8001!

We’ve got spots available in several classes this week, including our Woodworking Fundamentals I and a couple opportunities to turn your own Christmas ornaments! Visit our website or give us a call to reserve your seat today in one of these sessions!

We had a full house today for our Intro to Traditional Carving class! The students did a great job; thanks for joining us!

We’ve got a packed schedule of classes this week, so if you’re looking to exercise your creativity or learn a new skill, check out these classes!

We’ve got a great variety of classes this week, and the ones listed here still have seats available! Give us a call at (423) 710-8001 or visit our website to reserve your spot!

And that’s a wrap! We’ve just completed three separate weeklong Kids Summer Camp sessions! Over the last few days, the kids have learned woodworking skills as they’ve crafted a variety of projects, including outdoor side tables, bat houses, bird feeders, pens, keychains, and more!

The students did a fantastic job, and we’d like to give a shout-out to our instructors who worked hard to run the camps! Thank you, Larry, Cheryl, Greg, Annelyse, and Jay for all your work this week!

If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, check out these classes! If you see one you like, give us a call or sign up online to claim this special offer!

We’ve got a full schedule of classes this week, and they all have a spot or two available! Give us a call or visit our website to reserve your seat!

Hey parents! Thanks to the recent sale of more of our planter box kits, we have additional scholarship funds to offer! We’re giving away three $75 scholarships to the first three people who call us at (423) 710-8001 to register for our Kids Wood Turning Camp on July 22 - 26. This means that for $100 your student can spend five afternoons turning a variety of wooden projects! Limited to one per household; first come, first served, so call us ASAP!

If you want to learn how to improve your ability to turn beads and coves and apply those skills to a variety of spindle projects, check out our Spindle Turning Series! While the classes can be taken in any order once the 101 class has been completed, if you register for the entire series at once we’ll give you a $75 discount off the session of your choice! Give us a call or visit our website to register!

SPINDLE TURNING 101: THE BASICS
Date: Saturday, July 13 (10 AM - 5 PM)
Tuition: $120

SPINDLE TURNING 102: TURNING FOR FURNITURE
Date: PART I - Thursday, July 18 (10 AM - 5 PM)
PART II - Friday, July 19 (10 AM - 5 PM)
Tuition: $225

SPINDLE TURNING 103: TAMING OF THE SKEW
Date: Saturday, July 20 (10 AM - 5 PM)
Tuition: $120

SPINDLE TURNING 104: ADVANCED SPINDLE PROJECTS
Date: PART I: Thursday, August 15 (10 AM - 5 PM)
PART II: Friday, August 16 (10 AM - 5 PM)
PART III: Saturday, August 17 (10 AM - 5 PM)
Tuition: $300

Don’t forget we’re closing at 3 PM today. Happy Fourth of July!

Hey makers! Register today for the Maker’s Market that we’re hosting as part of our 10th Anniversary Woodworking Festival! The Market will be held in our parking lot on Saturday, October 5, from 10 AM - 4 PM. Set up will begin at 8 AM on Saturday, and we’ll provide a table, two chairs, and space in our tent (or let us know if you’ve got a 10 x 10 tent that you want to bring to set up next to ours). The Market is free to vendors and the public, but we ‘re asking vendors to register by AUGUST 1 so we have plenty of time to advertise your attendance. We’ll reach out to you via email once you’re registered to discuss additional details.

To register, you can visit our class listing (linked in bio) or give us a call at (423) 710-8001 and we can complete the process. Thank you for joining us!

Here’s the results of last week’s Summer Wood Turning Camp! The students did a fantastic job learning how to mix and pour their own epoxy resin blanks and then turned them into pens, keychains, and ornaments. Shout out to them and the instructor, Phil, for doing a great job!

We have a couple spots available in our upcoming Wood Turning Camp (ages 10+) and one spot left in our Woodworking Camp (12+), so don’t miss this chance to spend the week learning a new skill! You can find out more info and complete the registration process by either visiting our website or calling us at (423) 710-8001.

If you’ve seen our July sales flyer, you’re probably aware of the SawStop 20th Anniversary Sale! We’re excited about this unprecedented opportunity to save on SawStop Contractor, Professional, and Industrial saws! Give us a call or stop in soon to take advantage of this extremely rare opportunity to save on SawStop!