Cutting Board Workshops - December 2025 and January 2026

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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.

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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. Classes will also be offered in the new year though dates are still TBD.

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:

Day 2 slots:

Pricing:

Type of person Previously Oriented on the Tablesaw and Planer Jointer? Cost
VHS Member Yes 150.00
VHS Member No 200 - 50 dollars donated back to the hackspace on your behalf as part of the training/orientation.
Non VHS Member No 250.00 - 75 dollars donated back to VHS.
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Me and my +1 are interested! Would the weekday options be in the evening or during the day?

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I’m interested and selected some dates! Thanks, this is so cool!

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Weekday options are 4-8pm. Noise curfew reasons - plus, believe it or not. I do have a day job.

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Hey @Phillip_Ma my first sesh is coming up this sunday, is there any materials like wood that I should bring, or are you providing some options? Also though I’m a member I’m a little fresh, how does payment work (as in literally were do I insert my money card :laughing: )

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I will bring all the materials you will need to make your cutting board. Just show up in clothes you don’t mind getting dirty or getting glue on (the glue isn’t very friendly to water so it’s really hard to get this type of wood glue out of your clothes). As for payment i do take payments through square - and just as a reminder once i wrap up the classes for the year a portion of it will go back to VHS in the form of a donation.

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great! thank you, that all makes sense.