4/23, 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Have special trinkets collected from your travels? Learn how to make a timeless gift by learning box-making essentials. All materials will be provided.

Skills/Topics Covered:

• Reading plans and milling lumber
• Measuring and marking
• Operating a jointer and surface planer
• Using a miter saw, table saw, and bandsaw
• Making a spline miter joint
• Cutting a rabbet, dado
• Gluing and clamping
• Sanding and strategies for finishing
• No experience is required although some familiarity/comfort with using power tools is helpful but not required.  

4/30, 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Have prints or painting that need a home? In this workshop participants will learn the skills necessary to cut, assemble, and finish a fine art frame to fit an 8 x 10; print. All materials will be provided, including wood, glass and backing. Participants will walk home with their very own keepsake frame.

Skills/Topics Covered:

• Reading plans
• Cutting miters on a table saw using a sled
• Cutting rabbets on a table saw
• Making biscuit joints
• Gluing joints properly
• Proper sanding techniques, sanding block, palm sander
• Finishing wood 
• No experience is required although some familiarity/comfort with using power tools is helpful but not required. 

203a: 5/7, 9:30-4:00 pm

203b: 5/11, 6:00-9:00 pm

Learn the basics of cabinet making on a small scale by making a wall hanging cabinet! All material including hinges and knobs are included.

Skills/Topics Covered:

• Reading plans
• Marking and measuring
• Drilling shelf holes
• Dadoing and rabbeting
• Dowel joinery
• Fitting and hanging doors
• Installing and aligning hardware
• Prior enrollment or experience in joinery in required. Please e-mail [email protected] if you are planning to attend but have not enrolled in prior woodworking classes at The Foundry. 
• *Note* some additional time outside of class may be needed  for completion. Open shop opportunities will be handled on a case by case basis at no additional charge.