Foundations of Woodworking: Machine Tools & Shop Safety

The Wooden Boat School's Foundations of Woodworking series of classes provides practicing and aspiring woodworkers with the fundamental knowledge and best practices that are essential for the craft of woodworking. In this third class of the five-class series, students will learn how to safely handle tools and machinery in a shop setting. The class will include information on the different types of machinery and their uses, safe shop practices including: use of eye and ear protection, emergency protocols, and advice for setting up a home shop. This class is perfect for anyone looking to get basic safety certification with wood shop machinery or looking for the best practices to take home to their own workshops. 

NOTE: In order to keep class sizes small, this class is offered in two sessions. If one session is full, please select the other during checkout.

Date(s):
Session A: Mon./Tues., Jan. 15-16, 6-9 PM
Session B: Weds./Thurs., Jan. 17-18, 6-9 PM 
Instructors: Wayne Ford (Session A); Max Smith (Session B)
Class size (max.): 6
Attendance (min.): 4*
Skill level: basic
Prerequisites: none

Registration
Household Member & Above: $160**
Individual Member: $168**
General Public: $185
Register By: Jan. 10, 2024

Materials: $10 (price at checkout will include tuition and material cost)

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

**You must be a current member on the date of the event to receive your discount. Please login to activate your member discount.

Instructors: Wayne Ford is a master woodworker and shipwright with extensive timber framing experience. His experience includes participating in the restoration of the sloop Woody Guthrie and the sloop Clearwater. He teaches a wide range of woodworking classes, YouthBoat boatbuilding, timber framing, and special project classes at the Wooden Boat School.

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.