by Category
Please look at our TimeTable for a time-ordered list of our currently offered classes and their fees.
These are just some of the classes that we have recently offered or are working on offering:
Woodworking – Project Classes
These classes that focus on a specific end-result (bookrack, shrink pot, etc.) but offer valuable skills that you will learn by doing…
- Build a Bookcase – with Chris Castle
- Build Your Own Martin Guitar – with Bruce Scism
- Krympburkar Shrink Pots – with Jim Anderson
- Octoberfest 6-Pack Carrier – with Hugh Swiatek
- Shaker Boxes 101 – with Jim Anderson
- Shaker Step Stool Parent-Child Class – with Hugh Swiatek
- Tea Candle Holder and Pen Holder – with Hugh Swiatek
- Treasure Chest Parent-Child Class – with Vicky Smith
- Wood Shaving Ornaments Parent-Child Class – with Vicky Smith
Woodworking – Technique and Safety Classes
These classes focus on skills, or safety, or other general tool usage concerns. You may “make” something along the way, but only as a side-effect and not as a goal…
- Introduction to Power Tools – with Hugh Swiatek
- Introduction to Hand Tools – with Hugh Swiatek
- Introduction to Furniture Design – with Hugh Swiatek
- Mortise and Tenon Workshop – with Hugh Swiatek
Carving Classes
Carving and whittling are two of the oldest forms of woodworking.
- Wood Carving 101 – with Ron McClellan
- Chip Carving 101 – with Ron McClellan
Turning Classes
Woodturning (on the lathe) is a woodworking dimension unto itself.
- Pen Turning 101 – with Mike Warren
- Pen Turning 102 – with Mike Warren
- 3hr Intro to Spindle Turning– with Corey Anderson
- Basic Woodturning – with Corey Anderson
- Turned Lidded Container – with Corey Anderson
- Woodturning – with Corey Anderson
- Introduction to Woodturning for Women – with Corey Anderson
- Bowls, Bowls, Nothing but Bowls – with Corey Anderson
Other
There is always something else one can do with wood…
- Pyrography 101 – with Miranda Smith
- Forging a Small Knife – with Joe Meyer
- Forging for the Holidays – with Joe Meyer
- Forging for the House and Garden – with Joe Meyer
- The VCarve Tool Library and Tools (CNC Mini-Class) – with Allan Tuchman
- Vectors and Toolpaths from Artwork (CNC Mini-Class) – with Allan Tuchman
- Turning Pictures and Drawings into Cutting Paths (CNC Mini-Class) – with Allan Tuchman
- Inlays with VCarve (CNC Mini-Class) – with Allan Tuchman
- Introduction to CNC Router (Parkland Class) – with Allan Tuchman
Online Enrollment – working for most classes
Many of our classes are open for online enrollment! Just click on the Course Code for the session in which you wish to enroll. For sessions without a Course Code link (i.e. works-in-progress), please send email to:
and include the Course Code (or date and time) of the class that you wish to take. We will make sure that you are enrolled in the class!
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