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Can you believe we're just one week away from the first tiny house course of 2024?! Next Monday is Rough Framing: Build a Tiny House!

We've been a-moving and a-shaking these last couple of weeks, really gearing up for the summer ahead and getting into the thick of our teaching schedule. In this newsletter, check out our class recaps from April, Tiny House '24 updates and stories, Hammerstone in the Community, and .... a giant gourd?? Yep, a giant gourd! Read on to find out more!

Hey Hammerstone Fam! It's me, Christina, stepping in for Kimberly for the next couple editions of the Hammerstone Newsletter while she's on vacation. Topics covered today: Ladders!, Tiny House '24 Updates!, and Upcoming Classes!

Hello everyone, and happy April! Eclipse energy is in the air, native plants are starting to pop out of the soil...although it hailed last week, winter is in the rearview! Here at Hammerstone we've been hard at work preparing for our tiny house build and gearing up for a very busy late spring and summer schedule.

Learn about stereotype threat, the most versatile power tool, and all we have upcoming this spring.

Take a close look at Hammerstone tiny house details + Intro to Parquetry, our newest class.

The phrase takes on new meaning when you become a woodworker.

Hammerstone has a new website and a new tiny house project.

What’s going on this winter at Hammerstone. A short pencil is worth more than a long memory!

There’s a palpable excitement around here as we start getting ready for our very busy late spring and summer schedule. Material orders for our tiny house classes have been placed. Larch for our Adirondack chair and picnic table classes is being delivered and processed. The shop and property are getting tidied up and ready for students. On top of which, we’ve been working on creating some new Hammerstone promotional items for you!

There’s a palpable excitement around here as we start getting ready for our very busy late spring and summer schedule. Material orders for our tiny house classes have been placed. Larch for our Adirondack chair and picnic table classes is being delivered and processed. The shop and property are getting tidied up and ready for students. On top of which, we’ve been working on creating some new Hammerstone promotional items for you!

We are so excited to be in the final run-off for this grant and are happy to re-answer your question: “If you were to win the $2000 Amber Grant, how would you use the money?” You are right that a lot has changed since we answered this question a year ago. What hasn’t changed is our intention to use this grant to support our scholarship fund. However, based on our experiences in the past year, we’d like to earmark the Amber Grant for a specific demographic; namely, girls and young women.

Woodworking 101 is (the name of a Hammerstone class that recently ended, and) a fitting title for this blog post, because I want to talk about the difference between carpentry and woodworking.

“Craftsmanship” is an interesting word. The suffix “-manship” (sportsmanship, showmanship, penmanship, etc) denotes exceptional skill. These attributes are given to good sportsmen, showmen, and penmen.