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Hi Matthias!! Huge admirer here in Providence, RI. Your site is extremely helpful, but would you recommend seeking a master to learn from? I feel I'd progress faster as an apprentice than as a YouTube learner. My goal is to do dining tables, bed headboards, fancy boxes, currently I'm just doing picture frames.

Also, that pantarouter is incredible, kudos! When you routed 3 dowels I was very impressed. How did you envision the machine?

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Being an apprentice is probably bretter, yes. But I have no idea where you would find a master who wants an apprentice, let alone a master at all.

I recently went to a woodworking show in the mid-Atlantic region. There were some masters there teaching classes who seemed very concerned about traditional woodworking skills dying out - from the average age of attendees I can see why - and some of them take on apprentices still. A show like that would be a good place to look.

Parts of Europe (including DE) and many parts of Asia / Japan still have a strong master/apprentice culture.

Hi fellow geek/woodworker from Providence. RISD has lots of woodworking related classes that you can take without being a full time student.

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