9022. Intro to Wood: Short Session
Class - Wood | Available
Learn the basic skills, tools and safety rules of woodworking through hands on practice and exploration in the wood shop. Starting with hand tools, you will learn to measure, mark, and cut simple half lap joinery. From there you will dive into milling and dimensioning lumber, have a crash course on table saw safety, and get a chance to explore your creative side at the band saw by making a cutting board of your own design with the material you have milled. The final project, a simple trivet, will have you learning basic joinery with machines.
Additional Information:
A $20 materials fee will be added to the total class fee at checkout
Registration will close one week prior to the start of class
Enrollment is open to students ages 18 and up
- The primary focus of this class will be on learning how to use tools through hands on practice. Rather than completing a single project. You will create a couple small projects during class including a cutting board which you will design and learn to use the band saw and other tools to achieve that design, and a trivet with half lap joinery which you will learn to cut with both hand and machine tools.
Josie Vogel
Josie Vogel is an artist, woodworker and educator, working with the skills and traditions of craft to explore sculptural forms in useful objects. While pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, she fell in love with woodworking and has dedicated her career to the craft ever since. Whether in the form of sculpture, furniture, or small goods, her work prioritizes craft, utility, and the inherent beauty of the material. She creates objects that delight the eye and are meant to be touched, held, and put to good use. Through her work, Josie creates simple and elegant forms from a material that is alive with color, texture, luster and movement.
Josie makes her work in her home wood shop, surrounded by trees (for inspiration!) in Central North Carolina. Her work is available for purchase through Hudson’s Hill in Greensboro, NC and the Marta Blades Shop at Sawtooth in Winston-Salem. You can view her latest work on her website at josievogelstudio.com.
Josie is currently the Director of Woodworking at Sawtooth.