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    Wood Technology Avocational Courses

    Woodworking for the Home-Based Enthusiast

    Enrich your life with a creative and useful hobby. Laney Wood Tech offers classes for beginners and intermediate-level amateurs. Courses are offered in the afternoon, evenings, and weekends.

    Classes emphasize safety as well as technique and procedure. Both traditional and contemporary woodworking skills are taught in a hands-on, project-based format.

    Our staff of professional instructors have a wide range of woodworking experience and are able to focus on the individual needs of their students.

    These courses are all NOT a part of the Wood Tech Major/Certificate Core Curriculum:

    Course # Course Title Units
    WDTEC 250A Introduction to Furniture Making 4
    WDTEC 250B Introduction to Furniture Making 4
    WDTEC 271 Artisans in Wood I 4
    WDTEC 272 Artisans in Wood II 4
    WDTEC 210A Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery I 2
     WDTEC 210B Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery II 2
     WDTEC 210C Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery III 2
     WDTEC 210D Small Yard and Garden Structures 2

     

    Traditional Japanese Joinery
    In the Machine Room
    Lathe Turning
    Student Project
    Building Our Workbenches
    One-on-One Instruction

    Contact Us

    Department Chair
    Myron Franklin
    Email: mfranklin@peralta.edu

    Dean
    Alejandria Tomas
    Email: atomas@peralta.edu

    Learning & Career Pathways
    Building & Skilled Trades

    Division
    Career & Technical Education

    Location
    Building G, Room 150
    (Lower Level, G-150)

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    You can enter our shop from Fallon St (across from BART Lake Merritt Station parking lot) or from the campus side, follow this Google Map link.

    **For Deliveries and Pickups – WARNING DO NOT use the listed address for Laney College! This link will guide you to the closest location for large deliveries.

    Call us: (510) 464-3446

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