Wood Shop Classes
Series 100 Classes – Wood Shop Basics
TRK104 Woodshop Course
Everyone loves the smell of fresh cut wood, especially when you’re the one cutting it. This is our most popular courses because, well, everyone loves wood working. This skills learned in this 18 hour course provides a solid foundation to build on whether you want to build furniture, refinish an antique, or fix the trim on the house.
Starting with the basics, students learn to apply proper safety practices on each piece of machinery, woodworking theory, the nature of wood and stock selection of raw lumber, minimization of waste through thoughtful milling practices, squaring up their lumber, and how to work from a plan as you make your first project. This course prepares students for basic joinery projects by teaching them the do and don’ts of joinery techniques. Students also learn proper finishing techniques, and how to tune machinery for the best cutting applications.
Students who complete this course are signed off to use the woodshop whenever they like as members. This course meets once a week for 6 weeks.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders. If you have long hair, please tie it up!
Age: Individual participants in this class need to be 18 years of age or above. 16 to 17 w/ parent permission, 12-15 does not include wood lathe. Price is adjusted at time of checkout.
Price: Member: $905, Non- Member: $1,267
Prerequisites: None
WOD101 Wood Shop Basics
In this basic use class, you will learn how to safely operate the core machines in the Wood Shop, including the sliding compound miter saw, table saw, wood drill press, wood band saw and the belt and disk sanders. You will perform various operations on all of these machines to gain comfort and proficiency with the operation and usage of these tools.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders. If you have long hair, please tie it up!
Age: 18+, 12 to 17 w/ parent permission.
Price: Member: $155, Non- Member: $217
Prerequisites: None
WOD102 Wood Shop Hand Tool Basics
This is a great skill building class for adults who may have missed high school shop class or are looking to familiarize themselves with these tools before undertaking a DIY project. In this class, you will learn how to safely operate a number of the most frequently used hand and finishing tools including rasps, chisels, files, miter saws, coping saws, hammers, punches, drills, and sandpaper. Your instructor will guide you through the proper techniques to cut, shape, assemble and finish a small project.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders
Age: 18+, 12 to 17 w/ parent permission.
Price: Member: $155, Non- Member: $217
Prerequisites: None
Series 200 Classes – Wood Lathe
WOD201 Wood Lathe Basics
In this basics class, you will learn to safely use the lathe to make wooden parts. You will learn to set up the lathe, prepare the raw materials and use the different wood turning tools including chisels, gouges and scrapers, lathe face-plates and chuck. The class will cover spindle turning for items like furniture legs.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders. If you have long hair, please tie it up!
Age: 18+, 16 to 17 w/ parent permission.
Price: Member: $170, Non- Member: $238
Prerequisites: None
WOD202 Green Bowl Turning
Description: In this workshop, you will learn basic bowl making on the wood lathe, going from a square piece of stock to a finished bowl. You will learn how to prepare the green material and use several wood turning tools including carbide insert tools, scrapers, jacob’s chuck, face plate, 4-jaw chuck, and flat jaws. We will cover initial mounting, roughing to round and hogging off, techniques for remounting the bowl, shaping the exterior, and finishing techniques.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders. If you have long hair, please tie it up!
Age: 18+, 16 to 17 w/ parent permission.
Price: Member: $180, Non- Member: $252
Prerequisites: WOD201 Wood Lathe Basics
WOD203 Segmented Bowl Turning
This project class will take your bowl making techniques to the next level as you learn how to make a segmented bowl from start to finish. In this workshop you will learn how to design the bowl, how to create your own designs, create custom jigs to make your pieces, assemble your stock, mount, turn, and finish the bowl.
Attire: Pants, closed toe shoes, shirt that covers shoulders. If you have long hair, please tie it up!
Age: 18+, 16 to 17 w/ parent permission.
Price: Member: $330, Non- Member: $462
Prerequisites: WOD101 Wood Shop Basics, WOD201 Wood Lathe Basics, WOD202 Green Bowl Turning