Foundations of Woodworking, Intro to Joinery: Make a Tool Box

The Wooden Boat School's Foundations of Woodworking series of classes provides practicing and aspiring woodworkers with the fundamental knowledge and best practices that are essential for the craft of woodworking. In this fourth class in the series, you will be introduced to joinery, building hand tool skills to practice cutting joints. After this two-day woodworking class, you will leave with a tool tote ready to be customized for your tool kit.

In this session you will build your own tool box with your choice of the joints you learn: dovetail, miter, box, and half-lap joints. Using joinery rather than fasteners provides strength and sturdiness to produce a long-lasting box. You'll then finish with your own details on the ends and the handle--which you can shape with a spokeshave and plane--and install the handle with a through-mortise joint. You will have the opportunity to cut the joints both by machine and by hand to give you a feel for both methods.

Dates: Sat./Sun., June 1-2, 9 AM - 5 PM
Instructors: Wayne Ford, Cedric Martin
Class size (max.): 6
Attendance (min.): 3*
Skill level: intermediate
Prerequisites: FoW: Hand Tools and FoW: Machine Tools, or equiv. experience

Registration
Household Member & Above: $315**
Individual Member: $331**
General Public: $364
Register By: May 26

Materials: $35 (price at checkout will include tuition and material cost)

*Classes that do not meet the minimum attendance number may be cancelled or rescheduled. If so, you will receive a full refund, or class credit, regardless of the cancellation date.

**You must be a current member on the date of the event to receive your discount. Please login to activate your member discount.

Instructors: Wayne Ford is a master woodworker and shipwright with extensive timber framing experience. His decades of boatbuilding experience includes participating in the restoration of the sloop Woody Guthrie and the sloop Clearwater. He teaches a wide range of woodworking classes, YouthBoat boatbuilding, timber framing, and special project classes at the Wooden Boat School.