woodworking projects
There’s magic in the act of making things.
Our projects span a range of skill levels — some have prerequisites such as ‘Beginner Woodshop’ or ‘Foundations’ classes — and touch everything from home storage, to furniture, to tool-making.
Explore Project Classes below, or register for our general project waitlist and we’ll keep you in the loop:
Beginner Classes
no prerequisites or prior experience required
Wood-wrapped Block Lamp
In a single shop session, construct and take home a gorgeous hardwood lamp that uses a piece of salvage architectural glass as its ‘bulb’. This class involves a slew of tools and processes via a guided build experience. Fun for absolute beginners (and dates! and friends!) — explore the magic of a woodshop and the beautiful objects we all can make.
Carved Bud Vase
Perfect as a centerpiece or accent decor (and great as a gift, too). Choose from lots of beautiful wood species (ash, oak, cherry, maple, fir, and pine) and design and carve your own one-of-kind vase for buds or plants.
Hardwood Serving Board
Create a gorgeous centerpiece for your kitchen or culinary spread — and celebrate the beauty of wood and your own creativity.
This is a special, highly creative class — create a serving board ranging from simple(ish) traditional forms, to more adventurous designs sculptural designs, with an option to extend class via additional shop time if you wish.
Intermediate classes
Beginner Woodshop needed as a pre-requisite
Japanese tool chest
Tool chests are an ancient form in woodworking — they trace their origins across cultures to journeyman carpenters who stored the tools of their livelihood in simple, protected, and transportable boxes. Everything they needed was kept safe and sound within.
This Japanese style is a fabulous, accessible way to construct a chest of your own. Build one for tools, art supplies, clothes — basically anything. It’s highly modifiable outside and in (we can show you how to make little sliding tills for secret storage).
Beginner Woodshop is a prerequisite for this class.
Traditional Tool Box
Sometimes simplicity is the ultimate design. Yes, it’s another toolbox — but, just like the tool chest (above), it can be used for much more than that, and is a great exercise in simple construction of interconnected pieces. The box can be fastened with dowels or cut-nails (think: something a blacksmith would make).
This three session class is offered periodically — sign up for our waitlist to be the first to know about a new cohort.
Beginner Woodshop is a prerequisite for this class.
Beginner Woodshop is a pre-requisite for Intermediate classes
Advanced Classes
‘Foundations’ needed as a pre-requisite
Learn foundational mortise & tenon joinery skills while building this beautiful cherry stool.
This project was completed as part of our Foundations class and is not currently offered as a standalone project. Want to make one? We’ll teach you how in Foundations.
Wedged Through Tenon Stool
Staked Milking Stool
This little milking stool is a fun journey in stake furniture. Building upon the core skills learned in ‘Foundations’, students who enroll in this class learn about the key processes of stock planning and prep (including core power tools, such as bandsaw, table saw, and thickness planer), as well as staked leg design and construction.
This project is completed as part of our Foundations II class and is not currently offered as a standalone project. Want to make one? We’ll teach you how in Foundations II.
Notched Shelf
We love this shelf for its simplicity and emphasis of the natural beauty of the wood. Using little more than a pair of notch-joints set into risers (plus some woodworking magic), the shelf is an elegant, tasteful accompaniment to a wide range of rooms and contexts — and can be modified almost infinitely.
This project is completed as part of our Foundations class and is not currently offered as a standalone project. Want to make one? We’ll teach you how in Foundations. Really want to make one? Okay, express interest via the waitlist below and we will be in touch.
‘Foundations’ is a pre-requisite for Advanced classes
Begin your woodworking journey
Some projects start with ‘Beginner Woodshop’ or ‘Woodworking Foundations’
