Box Making with Larissa Huff
Course content available August 2025- sign ups are open now.
Take a break from large, demanding projects and rediscover the joy of play through box making.
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5 hours聽of video instruction聽
- PDFs on table-saw sleds and techniques for setting hinges
About This Course:
For Larissa Huff, box making offers a chance to experiment with color, form, and function in a relaxed, imaginative setting. In this course, you鈥檒l follow along as Larissa makes five boxes with a myriad of finishing touches. Each box is an opportunity to try new techniques鈥攎any of which are foundational to more complex furniture making鈥攚hile creating beautiful, functional objects.
You鈥檒l explore a wide variety of box joinery and design approaches, including:
路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Box joints on the table saw
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路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Perfectly fit mitered boxes
路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Mitered boxes with liners and finishing details
路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Woven-topped boxes
路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Octagonal boxes
路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Decorative flourishes like flocking, carving,
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More About Box Making With Larissa Huff:
Whether you're refining your skills or looking for a creative outlet, this course is a perfect way to play, explore, and learn鈥攁ll while building a collection of charming, whimsical boxes.
This course is designed for woodworkers looking to solidify fundamental techniques and to learn more-efficient ways of making boxes. More importantly, this course is for woodworkers looking to find room in their work for more creative expression.聽
The techniques in this course can be applied to any style of woodworking and feature a lot of hand-tool work. That said, students should know that Larissa leans heavily on her table saw and router table.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
LARISSA HUFF
Larissa is a woodworker and instructor based in Philadelphia. She鈥檚 a former math teacher, so her process and designs are often inspired by patterns. Larissa builds furniture from Pennsylvania hardwoods with traditional joinery and techniques, but enjoys incorporating at least one element of special intrigue into each piece. Most recently that has been secret drawers, tambour doors, or hot-pipe-bent details. When she is not in her workshop, she鈥檚 on the road teaching at shops and craft schools around the country. In recent years, she has completed a residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and a fellowship at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. Her days outside of the shop are surrounded by artful woodworking as part of the team at the Wharton Esherick Museum.
