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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

**For up-to-date class schedule https://laney.edu/classes/

 

1

Traditional Japanese Joinery

 

2

In the Machine Room

 

3

Lathe Turning

 

4

Student Project

 

5

Building Our Workbenches

 

6

One-on-One Instruction