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In this 3 night course we’ll teach you how to cut and glue up maple, cherry, and walnut to make a hardwood 3D cutting board. All materials are supplied and you leave with a beautiful cutting board of your making. We’ll be using the band saw, router table, sanders, planer, and glue and clamps.
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January 28, 29, & 30, 2025 6pm – 9pm each night
Come make this classic chess board in this three evening class. This mostly power tool class will help you get everything cut straight, parallel, and glued properly. We’ll be using maple and walnut as the contrast wood. WG Carlough will be the instructor on this class and brings over 20 years of instructing experience. Max class size is 4. -
This class is intended as a beginning class to get a person started into woodworking. We’ll go over terms, types of woods, over the tools and machine and what each one does and spend a lot of time talking safety. We’ll break for lunch then come back and begin to build a tool tote from cherry wood. You’ll leave with the confidence to start your own projects and what you’ll need to accomplish them. And a cool Tool Box!
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A unique opportunity to learn to build a solid workbench while helping out the school! We’ll provide all the materials, tools and know how to build the benches. You donate your time and $200 and we’ll teach you to build the benches the school will use for decades. We’ll be using a design through Lost Art press and utilizing Benchcraft hardware to build heavy stout benches from yellow pine. Theres a lot to learn and you’ll be using fun and unique tools. Mark will even grill out for lunch each day.
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In this 2 day course we’ll build electric pickup cigar box guitars. We’ll cover the overall build, explain different setup techniques, explain and demonstrate intonation, show you all the details most miss, and you’ll leave with a finished cigar box of your own!
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In this 2 day course we’ll build electric pickup cigar box guitars. We’ll cover the overall build, explain different setup techniques, explain and demonstrate intonation, show you all the details most miss, and you’ll leave with a finished cigar box of your own!
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In this 2 day course we’ll build electric pickup cigar box guitars. We’ll cover the overall build, explain different setup techniques, explain and demonstrate intonation, show you all the details most miss, and you’ll leave with a finished cigar box of your own!
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What to expect: First we’ll look at the different live edge pieces and determine your projects goals. Next we’ll use hand saws to cut the width. We’ll then use hand chisels to take off the bark. We’ll have a choice of hand planes or the sanders next. Other skills will involve measuring and drilling. You’ll leave with a beautiful working finished bench!
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What to expect: First we’ll look at the different live edge pieces and determine your projects goals. Next we’ll use hand saws to cut the width. We’ll then use hand chisels to take off the bark. We’ll have a choice of hand planes or the sanders next. Other skills will involve measuring and drilling. You’ll leave with a beautiful working finished bench!
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A follow up to Intro 1 where we dive in deeper and go through the milling process, use different styles of joinery and get hands on with the tools to familiarize you with how to use them, how to stay safe for you and those around you. This is a class that will allow you to know what tools you feel best having and using to build the projects YOU want to build and know what NOT to buy. We’ll make a small box in this class utilizing different styles of joinery.
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What to expect: First we’ll look at the different live edge pieces and determine your projects goals. Next we’ll use hand saws to cut the width. We’ll then use hand chisels to take off the bark. We’ll have a choice of hand planes or the sanders next. Other skills will involve measuring and drilling. You’ll leave with a beautiful working finished bench!
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A follow up to Intro 1 where we dive in deeper and go through the milling process, use different styles of joinery and get hands on with the tools to familiarize you with how to use them, how to stay safe for you and those around you. This is a class that will allow you to know what tools you feel best having and using to build the projects YOU want to build and know what NOT to buy. We’ll make a small box in this class utilizing different styles of joinery.
