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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...

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. ...

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!...

Join us for this one day build of a live edge table. Live edge pieces are unique in that their construction does not take away from the wood's original shape and natural appearance. Each student will get to pick a flitch of locally harvested and kiln dried hardwood, then use draw knives, sanders, and other hand tools to remove any bark and smooth...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

This workshop will include the materials and supplies to create a small cheese cutting board and a larger charcuterie board or cutting board made of different species of wood. This will be a two day workshop in which the first day will be picking out your wood, designing your pattern, squaring up the pieces and gluing them overnight. The next day...

This workshop will include the materials and supplies to build your own porch swing. This will be a one day workshop in which the first day will be cutting your wood, and assembling your porch swing to be ready for mounting hardware.  Materials fee to be paid directly to the school on the first day of class. Joint Instruction - For an additional...