Name: Morley Modern Stool
Instructor: Philip Morley
Skill Level: Upper Beginner to Intermediate
Prerequisites: None

Format: Week long in-person course

Material: Ash and Walnut 

7 Days – April 7th to 13th, 2025

Class Description:

Learn how to use the Shaper Origin while building this uniquely modern stool. In this class we will use complex joinery, including angled mortise and tenons, finger joints, and seat rails with expansion slots. With its angular design this stool will look equally beautiful at the bar in your home or at your desk in your shop.

Topics and skills covered will include:

• Basic Design
• The Shaper Origin and its Accessories
• Angled Mortise and Tenons
• Box Joints
• Designing with Expansion in mind
• Expansion Joints
• Edge Profiling

What you’ll need:

Required

• PPE
• Tape measure
• 6″ steel ruler
• Digital or fractional dial calipers
• 12″ combo square
• Set of Chisels
• Exacto or Razor knife

Optional (If you don’t bring your own you will have to share the school’s limited quantity)

• Low angle block plane
• #4 smoothing plane
• Pry Tool for Trim
• Shaper Origin and Workstation if you have one

If you have done some woodworking, and have some tools you think would be useful, feel free to bring them. It does not hurt to bring more than you need.

Austin School of Furniture has the right to cancel this class at anytime if the minimum amount of students is not reached.

See our Refund Policy here