Power Tools Intensive: Build A Workbench

Why buy a bench when you can build one? Building one’s own bench provides the opportunity to develop basic shop tool skills and to make a useful, portable, and personalized work surface for building future woodworking projects. Join woodworker Max Smith for this hands-on build of a functional woodworking workbench. Class discussion will cover bench vice selection and installation, additional optional bench features, and custom sizing of the piece. The height of the bench you build can be adjusted to fit your needs.

NOTE: The WBS's Foundation of Woodworking: Machine Tools & Shop Safety (or equivalent experience) is a prerequisite for this class. Starting from the basic skills learned in that class, students will dive deep into different methods of cutting rough lumber stock to exact final dimension, as well as how to plane and join wood. You will also gain experience in cutting mortises and tenons on the table saw, use of the router, biscuit joiner, table saw, and drill press.

Dates: Sat., April 6, 9 AM - 5 PM
Sun., April 7, 9 AM - 5 PM 
Mon., April 8, 6-9 PM 
Instructor: Max Smith
Class size (max.): 4
Attendance (min.): 3*
Skill level: intermediate
Prerequisites: Foundation of Woodworking: Machine Tools & Shop Safety or equivalent 

Registration
Household Member & Above: $575**
Individual Member: $605**
General Public: $660
Register By: March 26

Materials: $230 (included in price at checkout)

*Classes that do not meet the minimum attendance number may be cancelled or rescheduled. If so, you will receive a full refund, or class credit, regardless of the cancellation date.

**We encourage students to become members (for as little as $30/year) to receive 10-15% off class tuition. You must be a current member on the date of registering to receive your discount. Please login to activate your member discount. To become a new member, please sign up here, or call 845-338-0071.

Instructor: Max Smith is a multidisciplinary craftsman with ten years of experience in woodworking in various forms, stringed instrument repair and making, piano repair, boatbuilding, cabinetmaking, and as Maintenance Coordinator for the Beacon Sloop Club. He teaches Introduction to Furniture Restoration and Foundations of Woodworking at the WBS and has participated as a skills demonstrator at the Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, CT. Max lives in Beacon, NY where he frequently sails his 15' Goat Island Skiff, inviting friends and teaching them the basics of sailing.