Cutting Board Workshops - December 2024 and January 2025

[Phillip_Ma]

Hey All

I’ll be offering up a few Cutting Board workshops over the next few weeks after Culture Crawl. The workshop is designed for beginners and it will give you some guided experience using several mainstay tools in the woodshop. You will use the Miter Saw, Planer/Jointer, Tablesaw, A Router (handheld or table), and Orbital sanders as part of the workshop in a supervised environment. You will get a chance to work with some domestic and exotic hardwoods all while designing something you can take home and use for years to come. Here is an example of some of the work put out from this workshop.

This is a two day workshop. To attend the workshop i’ve set specific dates to work as Day 1 and Day 2 to try and make things a bit easier to manage. Each day runs about 3-4 hours depending on the number of participants and the volume of questions. If you are interested please reply below and let me know what dates/times work out best for you.

If you are interested in purchasing this workshop as a gift for christmas i have some pre-made sample cutting boards that you can wrap as a gift and i’m planning two sets of classes in January. Come see me at Culture crawl to recieve one of these sample boards.

Tasks done during the workshop

Day 1:

• Design and plan out your cutting board and cuts.
• Cut rough sawn lumber to rough size.
• Tool orientation on Jointer/Planer and Tablesaw.
• Square up the lumber and cut workpieces.
• Glue up your pieces.

Day 2:

• jointer/planer refresh when flattening the boards
• Tablesaw refresher to square up your cutting board
• Route edges around the perimeter of the cutting board
• Sanding, Sanding, Sanding
• Grain Pop, Cleanup Break, Instructions on Finishing Steps.
• One quick final Sanding

Dates for the workshop:

Day 1 slots:

Cutting Board Workshop Day 1 - Phillip Ma

Sunday, November 24th: 10 am - 2 pm - (3 of 4 spots available)
Wednesday December 4th: 4pm - 8pm - (4 of 4 spots available)
Saturday, December 14th: 10am - 2pm - (4 of 4 spots available)
January Dates TBD

Day 2 slots

Cutting Board Workshop Day 2 - Phillip Ma

Saturday, November 30th: 10am - 2pm - (3 of 4 spots available)
Wednesday, December 11th: 4pm - 8pm - (4 of 4 spots available)
Sunday, December 15th: 10pm - 2pm - (4 of 4 spots available)
January Dates TBD

Pricing:

Type of person	Previously Oriented on the Tablesaw and Planer Jointer?	Cost
VHS Member	Yes	100.00
VHS Member	No	150.00 - 50 dollars donated back to the hackspace on your behalf as part of the training/orientation.
Non VHS Member	No	200.00 - 70 dollars donated back to the hackspace. If they become members they will be considered oriented on the Tablesaw and Jointer/Planer

[Janet]

I’ve taken this workshop with Phil and made my very own cutting board. I just wanted to pipe up and say it’s amazing and well worth the money. If fact it’s a very great deal considering everything that you learn! Phil is a fantastic instructor so I can’t recommend this workshop enough! Do etttt.

Edit:
Here’s my cutting board!

[Phillip_Ma]

Just to give you an idea of comparable classes:

Maker Cube in Langley:

1. Shorter Class Duration (3.5 hours)
2. Cutting board half the size.
3. Smaller wood selection.
4. Similarly priced ($125-$200)

Yaletown Roundhouse or Surrey Community Center

1. Longer Class Durationn (12 hours over 4 days)
2. 155.20 Dollars more expensive.

[Tamara_VA7ETR]

Is there still room to sign up for the Nov 24 & 30th sessions?

[Phillip_Ma]

Yes! I’ll mark you down for those dates! @Tamara_VA7ETR DM me with your email address and i’ll send you a calendar reminder.

[nicochecko]

15/10 would recommend to everyone

[Emile]

Just signed up on the Calendly links. How do I pay?

[Phillip_Ma]

Nice! i’ll collect payment on the first day of your workshop. I usually wait until all the classes are wrapped up to make one donation out to VHS!

[cwehrhan]

Signed up for Wednesdays sessions, stoked!