Foundations of Woodworking: Advanced 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. The series culminates in an advanced course in joinery where you will build upon earlier lessons in basic joinery, machine operation, hand tool use, and shop safety. You'll continue and finish the project you began in Basic Joinery, which is a tray that features the four joints you have learned to make. This class will focus on hand- and machine-cut dovetail joints as well as machine-cut mortise and tenon joints. This is an excellent course for people who seek to strengthen joinery skills. 

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, & FoW: Basic Joinery.

Date(s):
Session A: Tues.-Thurs., Feb. 6-8, 6-9 PM
Session B: Tues.-Thurs., Feb. 13-15, 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, FOW: Basic Joinery

Registration
Household Member & Above: $215*
Individual Member: $226*
General Public: $248
Register By: Feb. 4, 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.