Date Night is designed to give couples a chance to spend an evening together making a fun project and lasting memories! Each couple will join Dawn and Tony Evans for two evenings where you will make a set of coasters together (4 per couple). Note: $10 material fee payable to instructor.
A wildly diverse tool, a spokeshave is absolutely essential to any hand tool user. Learn how to set, adjust, fine tune, and sharpen your spokeshaves alongside Hunter Menken.
Join Hunter for an evening of hand planing. In this course Hunter will go over how he prepares his projects for final finishing with hand planes (edges, corners, and faces). It may be impractical, but it sure is fun.
Don Coleman will take you from idea to cherry bowl in this one of a kind class. From start to finish Don will take you through planning, cutting, gluing, construction, turning, AND finishing. Note: $20 material fee payable to instructor.
Join Dawn and Tony Evans for this date night making your very own cheese board. They'll walk each couple through their process of making the slicer and finishing it too. Then you'll be able to take this board home and cut the cheese for friends and family both! Note: $10 material fee payable to instructor.
Feeling frustrated with your card scraper? Not able to pop off all that squeeze out? Not quite getting the shimmery finish you want? Hunter Menken will walk you through his simple steps to achieve a clean burr for clean scraping.
Join Dawn as she guides you through your beginning steps in stained glass. She'll show you how to use patterns, cut, grind, foil, solder, and patina a ribbon that you can take home! Note: $15 material fee payable to instructor.
In this highly focused class Hunter Menken will walk you through how he sharpens his tools. His primary focus will be chisels and plane blades, but if time allows he'll also talk about sharpening various other tools in and out of the shop!
Learn the basics of the scroll saw, including blade selection, setup, simple cutting techniques, and what you can make with it. Perfect for beginners looking to build confidence and get started on scrolling.
Learn how individual pieces of wood come together to create stunning dimensional art. I'll cover the core techniques including pattern prep, cutting, basic shaping, gluing, & finishing an intarsia piece. Great for those interested in learning and getting started with intarsia.
Take your intarsia to the next level by learning advanced shaping, and techniques for creating depth, realism, and seamless transitions. Perfect for those who are already familiar with intarsia or looking to advance their skills.
Join Hunter for an evening of bending fun. During the evening he'll walk through his tips on what makes a bend successful and how to get the results you want!
French polish. The crown jewel of shellac finishing. We'll walk through the steps to achieve this high build shellac finish, from surface prep to application. You'll walk out of this class with a clear, step-by-step approach to applying this classic finish on your next project.
In this highly focused class Hunter Menken will walk you through how he sharpens his tools. His primary focus will be chisels and plane blades, but if time allows he'll also talk about sharpening various other tools in and out of the shop!
Many of us woodworkers have a piece of rust on a shelf that used to be called a hand plane. Join Hunter and get that thing cleaned up! Learn how to discern the quality of the plane and the scale of its problems and be prepared to get messy tuning your vintage plane.
