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 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.
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!
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.
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.
Through his own tried and true methods, Hunter Menken will guide you through his process for achieving a buttery smooth finish. Be prepared for shavings, dust, and fun!
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.
Hunter Menken will walk you through how to make and tune a traditional Krenov-style hand plane. In a weekend you'll construct, shape, tune, and use your new hand planes. Material fee is covered in tuition (body, sole, and blade).
Heard about shellac and want to try it out? Hunter Menken will walk you through how he achieves a beautiful, durable finish. The class will cover how he preps a surface for finish and take you through the mixing and application of shellac as well.
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. Students will leave this class with a wooden block large enough to be used as a cutting board.
Join Hunter for an evening of cutting veneers on the bandsaw. Included in this class will be tips on setting your bandsaw for resawing, cleaning up your veneers, how to glue, and when to use them! This class not only clues you in to fine bandsaw work, but also fine veneer work! Students will leave class with a stack of their own veneers. Note: $10 material fee payable to instructor.
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.
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.
