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Yes, it's been a long summer, and, yes, I've been travelling quite a bit. I'm back and I've finally had some time to reflect and make adjustments to my classes that many have been asking me about since the beginning of the year.
Recently, I've added six sessions of Build Your "Toolbox" to the calendar, all the way through November. If you've been waiting to get started, here's the opportunity. You might find the class, the toolbox project, and your continuing journey into woodworking a satisfying escape from the news of the world and the misery it induces. Instead, fight entropy! Raise a tool! Make things with your hands!!
For those continuing the journey, I've made some changes to Build Your "Workbench"—deciding to split it into two classes, a one-day class and a two-day class. The original course asked a lot of two days, especially with cramming the workhorses into a single day, so now, we'll be giving each part of the project its own class, with one day for the planing beam and two back-to-back days for the workhorses.
Build Your "Workbench": Planing Beam
This is now it's own one-day standalone class, and we'll also be giving the beam feet, so it can literally ...wait for it... stand alone. We'll still be milling one face of the beam by hand and laying out mortises for friction-fit stops, but in the end you'll be getting a low bench you can use on the floor, or remove the legs and use across any horse, on top of a table, or even slung across two chairs.
Build Your "Workbench": Sawhorses
This is also now its own two-day standalone class, with the days scheduled together (rather than with a week between like the Toolbox class). It means we'll be able to get much further with the project while we're together and have some more time to focus on the layout, a key component of this class.
The two pair naturally, and together they make a complete knock-down bench that assembles in minutes and stores in a closet. But each stands on its own, and they can be taken in either order—or one without the other, depending on what your space and your practice call for.
I've also decided to combine all my different design classes into a complete class called Project Design for New Woodworkers, geared towards small furniture and home accessories, built with hand tools in a home setting. Instead of splitting the classes up into different sessions by category, we'll explore all the dynamics a new woodworker should know when designing and planning their next project. We'll talk about material selection and how/where to buy lumber, the different dynamics of wood and joinery and how to accommodate them for your design, as well as generating a measured drawing from your sketch and planning your project with a cut-list and story stick.
Overall, I think these adjustments will make for more productive and interesting classes, but please feel free to email me if you have any questions about the classes, scheduling, or anything else. A lot of these changes were made as the result of community feedback and I'm always listening. My wish is to be here to help you along on your woodworking journey. Please let me know what I can do. See you in the shop!
–Will |
