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. 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.
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 )
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.
Alright this season of cutting board workshops are pretty much completed. I’ve collected payment from all the workshops i’ve conducted for this season and i was able to raise 400 dollars from the participating students this year and the funds has just been sent over.
I really wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated this year as well as prior years. I also want to give giant thank you to to those who have promoted this class out to others either through tours provided, newcomers asking questions about the woodshop, or to friends and family. The word of mouth did alot of the advertising for me this year and i appreciate the positivity shared. This year felt like the membership did a better job promoting the class then i did. That left me feeling great to hear that every time.
i am currently not 100% certain that i will be running this class next year and will probably make that decision in the fall. This is largely due to sourcing some of the exotic hardwoods used in the class becoming increasingly difficult to find. So some changes maybe in store on how this class is offered for next year.
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