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Woodworking Basics: Hand Tools

Learn how to use hand tools skillfully in this four-session component of BARN's Beginning Woodworking series.

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Woodworking Basics: Hand Tools

Woodworking Basics: Hand Tools

Learn how to use hand tools skillfully in this four-session component of BARN's Beginning Woodworking series.

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Learn how to use woodworking hand tools with a project specifically designed to give you experience with the most common ones.

You will learn to use:

  • Measuring and marking tools
  • Crosscut and rip cut hand saws
  • Hand planes
  • Chisels
  • Hand drill (bit and brace)
  • Coping saw

Details

A $20 materials fee, included in the class fee, covers the wood (poplar) for your tote.

Project

A two-compartment tote, handy for storing or carrying silverware, garden tools, or other items

Prerequisites

Orientation to the Woodshop

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 and up are welcome.
  • You must wear closed-toe shoes.
Instructor
Tom Leurquin

Tom Leurquin has been a BARN member since its opening and specializes in projects involving hand tools. After taking several hand tool courses at BARN and the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, he fell in love with the intimacy and meditative aspects of working wood by hand. His civil engineering background has helped him achieve a critical eye for detail and precision that enriches the art of hand tool woodworking.

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