Class Description: 

In this three part class, you’ll learn to cut wooden joints by hand and level up on the quality and beauty of your future projects! Build a small plant or computer stand with four mortise and tenon joints. You will learn techniques for sharpening, preparing wood, adjusting and using hand planes, using saws and chisels, and marking tools. Learn how to lay out joints with precision and perfectly level a surface with a plane. Developing hand tool skills will lower your shop footprint and earn you some serious bragging rights.

Teacher: Gary Radice with Highland Woodshop Staff

Timeframe: Saturdays March 1, 8, 15 10-3pm

Length of Class: 3 Saturdays 4 hours

Class Cost: $345 

Materials Fee: $75

Age of Students: 14 or above (Exceptions can be made if registering with an adult)

Skills Learned: Hand cut joinery, Hand sawing techniques, Hand planing, Making and Layout , Basic sharpening,

Gary Radice Bio:

I've worked with my hands since I was a boy and started woodworking about 45 years ago. I was a serious amateur for a few years in my late 20's, then life and career intervened, and then I returned to serious woodworking about 10 years ago. Now I do it pretty much full time. In the last few years I've concentrated on using Japanese joinery and hand tools to make furniture and a small Japanese timber framed garden structure. I recently had a photo of one my tables published in Fine Woodworking magazine.

In my former life I was a college biology professor and from that have decades of experience teaching small groups of folks in a lab setting. Not too different from teaching woodworking!