Due to health problems, the Lohr School of Woodworking is now closed. As a consequence, my Full Lumber Inventory will be offered for sale at super bargain prices on Saturday June 13, 2026.
Please download sale flier below.

Due to my retirement and failing health, as founder and owner of the JD Lohr School of Woodworking, I am sorry that I had to close the school and Studio.  I had hoped to leave the business stand as a viable institution under willing and capable management but despite well laid plans it was not to be.

From 1999 thru 2021, The Lohr School of Woodworking, located in SE Pennsylvania, offered the often-recognized best  total immersion, machine-based woodworking and furniture-making courses in the country. What enabled this was the excellent, old school Industrial Arts education I received from my late 1960’s high school Industrial Arts (IA) department teachers – Mr. John Braton (woodworking), Mr. Robert Nichols (drafting & shop-math), Mr. Latcher (metal working) and Mr. Pennypacker (Graphic arts). 
In 1970, after my high school years, I worked for 2 years as a warehouse laborer to save enough money to begin my Millersville State College / Industrial Arts degree program.  Key influential teachers at MSC were Bill Gieger (woodworking), Richard Stienmetz (Unit Studies), and I consider myself very lucky to be assigned to Chalie Graby as my public education general shop student teacher co-op in the spring of my 1976 college senior year.  While I learned technical joinery, design, and tooling applications from individual department teachers, I attribute the style and the way I was able to become a noted and award-winning effective teacher through the methodology I learned from Charlie Graby. 
Key tradesmen influences came through my able, do-it-yourself, blue-collar family in my Father Albert Lohr, much older Brother Bert, and brother-in-law Jere Danz and Lancaster County craftsmen such as Jake Brubaker, woodturner.  
Being a fan of fact-based historical novels, I have respectfully remembered the quoted words of Howard Taft (our 27th president) from the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Bulley Pulpit.  The Taft Quote read; “The meanest man in the world is the man who conveniently forgets the old friends and teachers that helped him in an earlier day over his early challenges.”   My credits above may seem extensive, but I’ll never forget to acknowledge those that came before me who were clearly influential in enabling my career in the Studio Woodworking Trade and likewise my career as a respected woodworking teacher. 
Thank you to all including my mother who encouraged me to experiment and create in the backyard and our cellar.  And especially how she would encourage me as early as 10 years old to explore the fields, woods, creeks, and river distant from our house with my only warning being that I had to be home before dark.  I pity kids today that must endure supervised play dates and endless screen time when they should be learning how to fend for themselves outside and in the dirt.   
Jeffry Lohr