Woodcraft of Virginia Beach / Norfolk

River Table End Table

Part 1: Saturday, October 4, 2025, 9 AM - 5 PM

Part 2: Sunday, October 26, 2025, 9 AM - 5 PM

In this class Ashley F will teach you how to build a river table (end table sized) top. She will cover the construction of a basic shop made mold. The process of preparing the material as well as the measuring, mixing, and pouring of resin. Uses of pigments, curing processes, and demolding results. Finally, preparing and finishing the table top for use. She will also touch on the different types of resin, variations in mold construction, as well as a variety of finishing techniques.

Intermediate Finishing

Part 1: Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM

Part 2: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM

Part 3: Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM

Part 4: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM

The last step in furniture making has been the most difficult of all. Finishing frustrates the most experienced woodworker. This four night course will take the mystery out of finishing. Topics include: sanding, surface prep, filling grain, staining, sealing, top coating, rubbing out, and wet sand polishing.

Carving/Whittling a Wooden Chain

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 6 PM - 9 PM

Wood carving is one of the oldest forms of art that originated the first time a human shaped a piece of wood with a sharp stone. Whittling developed when sharpened metal knives were used to carve a hand held piece of wood making whittling one of the earliest forms of carving. In this class, you will learn to carve your own wooden chain from a single piece of wood. The techniques learned can be used to make a chain of any size or length. (The Guinness World record is 487.5 feet long from a single piece of wood!)