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Craft your own contemporary and minimalist side table, constructed using oak and classic half-lap joints Woodworking is an age-old craft and one of the most versatile skills. With some woodworking know-how and the right tools, you can create anything. Do you have a picture in your head of the perfect piece of furniture for your home, the one piece...

This workshop will help you build your own self-powered ride – an old school, hardwood pintail longboard skateboard. A longboard is perfect for cruising around and honing your carving skills. And you’ll get bragging rights when someone asks you where you bought your sweet board. This workshop is an excellent exercise in the core woodworking skills...

Come learn the incredibly satisfying craft of green wood spoon carving. Starting with locally sourced logs, we will evaluate what makes good ‘spoon wood,’ where it comes from, and how to split a blank from a larger piece. Spoon carving is a great way to learn about wood technology—the structure of wood, how it wants to be cut, and the characteristics...

Join woodworker and instructor Wayne Ford for this hands-on build of a functional woodworking workbench. Students will learn design principles and joinery techniques as they interpret a drawing. Discussion during the class will cover bench vice selection and installation, additional optional bench features, and custom sizing of the piece.  The...

Join woodworker and instructor Wayne Ford for this hands-on build of a functional woodworking workbench. Students will learn design principles and joinery techniques as they interpret a drawing.  Discussion during the class will cover bench vice selection and installation, additional optional bench features, and custom sizing of the piece. ...

Date Night: Make a Classic Longboard/Skateboard Each couple will make one longboard together and get a pizza and a bottle of wine to share during the workshop. Click here if you want to book for the regular single attendee class instead. Design and build your very own old-school Pintail Longboard Skateboard This workshop will help you build...

Try your hand at this historic stringed instrument! This small guitar is made with a wooden cigar box as the resonator. In just one day you can build your own working cigar box guitar. Materials fee to be paid directly to the school on the first day of class

Date Night: Make a Side Table (Woodworking/Furniture Making) Each couple will make one table together and get a pizza and a bottle of wine to share during the workshop. Click here if you want to book for the regular single attendee class instead. Craft your own contemporary and minimalist side table, constructed using oak and classic half-lap...

One of the more useful tools in a woodworkers tool box is a mallet; a tool that is bound to save your chisels from that steel hammer!  Starting with blocks of hard wood, we will cut, assemble, and finish pieces to fashion a traditional woodworker's mallet. If you are doing a bunch of chiseling youll certainly need a bench hook as well to pair!...

In this class we will assemble a stratocaster, telecaster, or p bass so that when the class is over you will have a playable guitar.  The pickups have been upgraded to my hand wound alnico pickups. We will cover a range of topics including assembly, wiring & soldering components, fretwork and general setup. There will be several options...

Our instructor will be giving a workshop on the art of Kumiko. During this workshop, students will build a Kumiko trivet and learn to make the asanoha pattern, also termed the hemp leaf pattern. Kumiko is a Japanese technique of assembling wooden pieces without the use of nails.Thinly slit wooden pieces are grooved, punched and mortised, and then...

For Earth Day we will be holding a special 3 hour class where students will build their own bat house and learn about the importance of bats to our ecosystem. The first half hour will be a fun educational information session all about bats! Following the presentation, students will assemble their bat house with the assistance of our woodworking instructor,...

Introducing our first advanced course within the Foundations of Woodworking series. Students will build upon earlier lessons which included basic joinery, machine operation, tool use, and shop safety. Participants will focus on hand- and machine-cut dovetail joints as well as machine-cut mortise and tenon joints. This is an excellent course for people...

In this one day class, Boatright Wayne For will lead participants in the re-fastening of our 1950’s racing sloop, the Rascal. The rascal was trucked all the way across the country where it was built. The history of this boat is unknown but man it is a beautiful boat. It looks fast just sitting on the hard. The galvanized screws will be replaced...

Max Smith, a professional Piano Tuner, Luthier, Boat Builder, and Woodworking enthusiast will teach a new course covering methods used to conserve structural and cosmetic details concerning furniture. Examples will be provided of common wear and deterioration and mishandled prior repairs. The instructor will guide students in troubleshooting problems...