2024 Class schedule

Make a Dovetailed Tea Chest with Michael Pekovich

October 21 through 25, 9am to 4pm Register

Instructor—Michael Pekovich

Fee: $890 Material included.

Experience Level: Beginner, no prior experience needed.

Sharing a cup of tea with friends is a nice way to spend an afternoon or end a meal. The experience is made even better by serving up tea selections in a handmade chest. This useful and quietly elegant chest offers a variety of woodworking challenges in a small project. You can put the skills you’ll learn in this class to use on any number of other projects as well. The class will cover tips for fast, accurate dovetails when building the case. Mitered liners are a powerful solution when dividing a space for contents. You’ll learn how to fine-tune the fit of miters with a hand plane for seamless joints. You’ll also come away with a novel strategy for adding a lid to a box. The lid hinges open and slides side-to-side to reveal the contents without having to remove it. Kumiko panels decorate the lid and wound-cord handles finish off the chest.

•Learn a fast, accurate way to cut dovetails

•Break up space with mitered partitions

•Create tight-fitting miters with a hand plane

•Build and fit a hinged sliding door

•Make kumiko panels

•Create hand-wound hemp cord handles

•Learn how subtle details can enliven a design

Build a Garden Tote

November 6 & 7, 6pm to 9pm Register

Instructor—CMWA Staff

Fee: $97 materials to build one box included

Experience Level: Beginner, no prior experience needed.

Make this simple garden tool carrier and learn basic woodworking skills. Learn to safely use the tablesaw, bandsaw, and drill press as well as hand tools. You will leave this class with a functional tool tote.

2025 Class schedule

Build a Classic Roll Top Bread Box

January 20 & 27, February 3 & 10, 2025, 6pm to 9pm

Instructor—Mark Voigt

Fee: $174.00 materials included

Build a classic roll top bread box with Mark Voigt. Build this bread box while learning the safe operation of basic power tools. In addition you will have the opportunity to use a laser engraver to personalize the roll top of your bread box. Cost of materials included.

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Build a Simple Shaker Style Table

February 18,20, 25, 26, March 4 & 5, 2025, 6pm to 9pm

Instructor—Don Peterson

Fee: $276.00 materials included

Build a simple Shaker-style table with Don Peterson. Building this simple table will expand your wood working skills. Using power and hand tools you will learn about mortise and tenon joinery, tapering table legs, and making and fitting a drawer. The table will be built with Cherry wood. Cost of materials included.

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Build an Attractive Trivet

December 8 & 15 , 2025, 6pm to 9pm

Instructor—John Voigt and Mark Voigt

Fee: $84 materials included

Build an attractive trivet with John Voigt and Mark Voigt while learning the safe operation of a table saw, drum sander, band saw, router and stroke sander

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