Foundations of Woodworking: Basic Joinery

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 fourth of the five classes in the series, you will be introduced to joinery, building hand tool skills to practice cutting joints. A limited class size ensures all students will gain hands-on experience in the fundamentals of joinery. In this session you will begin work on what will become, in the Advanced Joinery class, a tray featuring the four different joints that you will learn to make: a box joint, a miter joint, a half-lap joint, and a mortise and tenon joint.

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. Also, this intermediate-level class requires you to have taken these prerequisites: FoW: Machine Tools & Shop Safety & FoW: Hand Tools: Use & Care.

Date(s):
Session A: Tues.-Thurs., Jan. 23-25, 6-9 PM
Session B: Tues.-Thurs., Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 6-9 PM
Instructors: Cedric Martin (Session A); Max Smith (Session B)
Class size (max.): 6
Attendance (min.): 3*
Skill level: intermediate
Prerequisites: FoW: Machine Tools & Shop Safety &
FoW: Hand Tools: Use & Care

Registration
Household Member & Above: $215**
Individual Member: $226**
General Public: $248
Register By: Jan. 18, 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: Cedric Martin is a furniture maker who works primarily with wood native to the region. He is the founder of Pacama (pacamahandmade.com), located in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York.

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.