Woodshop Skills Series: From Cutting Board to Fine Joinery
Build real skills in the woodshop while creating beautiful, functional pieces perfect for life aboard your boat (or at home). This series takes you from introductory shop confidence through refined joinery techniques, with each class building on hands-on practice using essential woodworking machines and hand tools — routers, drill presses, jointers, planers, table saws, miter saws, and bandsaws.
Start with a Cutting Board, an introductory and refresher-level project ideal for getting comfortable in the shop while practicing bunging, layout, and clean, precise curve-cutting — the fundamentals you'll need for future boat projects, from trim repairs to small joinery work. Move on to a Conifer Step Stool with Domino Joinery, where you'll shape elegant swung legs and a curved apron while learning Domino joinery for strong, precise assembly and gaining a foundational understanding of traditional mortise-and-tenon work by hand. From there, advance to a Spice Rack, mastering precision 45° miter joints with dovetail reinforcement, fast modern Domino joinery, and clean screw-and-bung construction — with time-permitting exploration of dovetailing fundamentals for those ready to push further.
Whether you're picking up a saw for the first time or sharpening skills toward more advanced boatbuilding classes, each class leaves you with practical shop confidence, a stronger grasp of core and traditional joinery methods, and a handcrafted piece built to handle galley duty, dockside gatherings, and everyday life on the water. Your class tuition helps support Spaulding youth programs and BW101 — thank you!
Note: the step stool and spice rack classes require prior woodworking class experience; the cutting board class is open to all levels.
Woodshop Skills Series: From Cutting Board to Fine Joinery
Build real skills in the woodshop while creating beautiful, functional pieces perfect for life aboard your boat (or at home). This series takes you from introductory shop confidence through refined joinery techniques, with each class building on hands-on practice using essential woodworking machines and hand tools — routers, drill presses, jointers, planers, table saws, miter saws, and bandsaws.
Start with a Cutting Board, an introductory and refresher-level project ideal for getting comfortable in the shop while practicing bunging, layout, and clean, precise curve-cutting — the fundamentals you'll need for future boat projects, from trim repairs to small joinery work. Move on to a Conifer Step Stool with Domino Joinery, where you'll shape elegant swung legs and a curved apron while learning Domino joinery for strong, precise assembly and gaining a foundational understanding of traditional mortise-and-tenon work by hand. From there, advance to a Spice Rack, mastering precision 45° miter joints with dovetail reinforcement, fast modern Domino joinery, and clean screw-and-bung construction — with time-permitting exploration of dovetailing fundamentals for those ready to push further.
Whether you're picking up a saw for the first time or sharpening skills toward more advanced boatbuilding classes, each class leaves you with practical shop confidence, a stronger grasp of core and traditional joinery methods, and a handcrafted piece built to handle galley duty, dockside gatherings, and everyday life on the water. Your class tuition helps support Spaulding youth programs and BW101 — thank you!
Note: the step stool and spice rack classes require prior woodworking class experience; the cutting board class is open to all levels.
