Craftsman Rendezvous

Craftsman Rendezvous A Victor, Idaho workspace to help bring people together to learn-share-create, in the Craftsman style

Hematite, All found locally, I even found a piece in the gravel at the old Victor elementary school site.This is not kn...
07/21/2025

Hematite, All found locally, I even found a piece in the gravel at the old Victor elementary school site.

This is not known to exist in our valley, I polished one side of these pieces to 3000. You cannot tell what’s inside unless you know what to look for on the outside.
Here you go. Start looking for it. Bring your favorite rocks to one of our classes starting this fall.

I have a large collection of this material, I have collected, to use in our “lapidary to jewelry” classes starting this fall.

Playing with some local rocks i picked up. My first attempt at an owl, it was more about learning the different carving...
07/09/2025

Playing with some local rocks i picked up. My first attempt at an owl, it was more about learning the different carving techniques and polishing skills involved for a future class 🥰

Future classes coming this fall.

A few more demonstration pieces I made this week. They are for our students to see different wood types, techniques, and...
06/23/2025

A few more demonstration pieces I made this week. They are for our students to see different wood types, techniques, and finishes.

Classes are coming soon.
If you know anyone with extra wood lathe equipment looking to sell or support a community cause, we are gearing up for our first classes.

Playing with petrified wood on the wood lathe.This will be a workspace to Learn, Fail, then Create.If you don’t try, you...
06/20/2025

Playing with petrified wood on the wood lathe.
This will be a workspace to Learn, Fail, then Create.

If you don’t try, you will never learn.

Wood from the blue forest, Wyoming

Practicing my wood turning skills on different wood species from my woodpile. These will be great examples for the clas...
06/18/2025

Practicing my wood turning skills on different wood species from my woodpile. These will be great examples for the classroom instruction.

Wood turning was the most suggested class from our open house June 14-15.
Make your suggestions for future classes in the comments.

06/17/2025

This is a video of the open house we had on June 14-15, showing class possibilities for the school.
Thank you to everyone who came and helped select our first few classes. We will be posting sign up sheets in the near future at craftsmanrendezvous.com and notifications here on Facebook.
If you couldn’t make the show but are interested, please watch the video and make your suggestions for future classes in the comments. We want to this to be community learning workshop.

Coming soon, class in

-Wood turning- lathe
-wood carving - looking for teachers
-stained glass
-wood inlays
-rock carving - looking for teachers
-sewing class- looking for teachers
-fossil fish restoration- Wyoming fossils

Thank you,
Halsey Hewson
Craftsman Rendezvous

OPEN HOUSE June 14-15. From 11Am-7pm160E 9500S Victor, Idaho This will be our first open house. The goal is to get som...
06/10/2025

OPEN HOUSE
June 14-15. From 11Am-7pm

160E 9500S Victor, Idaho

This will be our first open house. The goal is to get some community feedback on the classes and projects that you, the community, would like to see hosted in our workspace.

We will have 20-25 class options set up for the open house. The classes with the most interest, we will attempt to host first. Please help us develop our curriculum.

The classes will range from ;

-basic woodworking projects
-advanced woodworking projects
-wood turning
-marquetry
-basic stained glass
-advanced stain glass, copper foil, inlays
- epoxy flow projects
-wood finishes, basic to faux finishes
-copper and Brass metal working, brazing
-wood carving
-fossil fish restoration. Fossils from Wyoming

Please show up and help us develop the class curriculum that our community wants.

Thank you,
Halsey
Craftsman Rendezvous

Picture- our new compost toilet/reading room🤣

Thank you Teton Valley News for the great article about the school and my background❤️I will be posting a few class oppo...
01/24/2025

Thank you Teton Valley News for the great article about the school and my background❤️

I will be posting a few class opportunities in the near future. Keep watching the progress 🥰

Thank you Teton Valley😊 I received my zoning approval TODAY, to continue to grow the school into the future. While the ...
12/16/2024

Thank you Teton Valley😊
I received my zoning approval TODAY,
to continue to grow the school into the future.

While the school would have been grandfathered in at the current size, this will allow for future growth of the workspace as needed.

I thank you, because of your comments and support in the past few months. It made me feel I was on the right path, and helped push me to get this zoning change done now, even though I was already overwhelmed with my house project and the school startup.

I will be reaching out, after the new year, for help and ideas for the summer public opening. Please follow my page for updates.

Thank you❤️
Halsey
Now it’s time to go Skiing 😊

Hello neighbors, I want to give a brief description of my dreams for the Craftsman Rendezvous workshop. I have been...
12/05/2024

Hello neighbors, I want to give a brief description of my dreams for the Craftsman Rendezvous workshop.

I have been a woodworker for nearly 50 years. Starting in our basement as a kid in rural Maine.
I moved to the Tetons in ‘89 for the skiing, and started my first small shop building log furniture in ‘91
I have expanded my skills over the years…..and have always wanted to share my knowledge.

I bought this property in Victor in 2015. Thinking it was the perfect location for the school, when I could afford to move forward my dreams.

I look forward to the summer of 2025 when I hope to have my house finished, my shop cleaned of all the house materials, and I can open to the public.

I currently have permission with Teton county to have 8 students on my property (Dept of health limit).

I am a lifelong Craftsman. I enjoy what I do, the school is my retirement dream, but I am not very social in public, my office and communication skills are lacking, my resources a limited, but I get very engaged when sharing my knowledge.

I will be asking for help, in the future, on this page for people who have the skills I lack, in getting this opportunity going.

My current business plan involves;
-hiring a national recognition teacher to teach a one week class each month to pay the bills,
-3 weeks a month, I would like to offer community based classes ,and offer the shop for other to have classes to share their skills.

Please follow this page for further details

A few more pictures from my past work
12/04/2024

A few more pictures from my past work

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160E 9500S
Victor, ID
83455

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