woodworking foundations

Our core class for anyone looking to begin the journey of woodworking, as well as the gateway for budding woodworkers to enter a world of project classes, clinics, and our open- and project-studios

class overview

As a practice, woodworking is as much about slowing down to connect with yourself and the material as it is about the act of building things. It’s an incredibly satisfying thing to feel yourself begin to relate to both the wood and the craft in a way that combines your vision, your intuition, your technique, your skill and your focus with the aesthetic and functional medium of the material and the tools.

Our goal for this course is to create a path to practicing the medium at your own pace and in your own way. We’ll step through everything together — from tools to technique. No prior experience is required.

Throughout the course, our woodshop becomes a friendly and familiar learning environment, where every key tool — workbenches, clamps and vises, squares, saws, chisels, braces, and, of course, hand planes — is integrated into the learning experience, and the class itself is a collegial, supportive environment where community is formed.

The class is further supported by practice sessions called ‘Foundations Studio’ — sort of like office hours for honing skills and making progress on in-class projects. These are available exclusively for Foundations students to immerse in the woodshop environment, recognizing that the skills we learn are internalized through practice

The class is enriched by readings and videos — all really awesome, we promise.

class cohorts