Wood Shop Classes

Bridgewire Wood Shop

Wood Shop 101 - Hands-on safety and use

  • Prerequisite: Members Only

  • Class + Material Fee: $7.50

  • Class Size: Min-1/Max-4

  • Class Duration: approximately 1 hr.

Come learn the basic safety and use of the equipment in our Wood Shop. This class covers the safe use of the table saw, drill press, bandsaw, miter saw, planer, jointer, and sanding equipment. This class does NOT cover lathe, router table, and CNC equipment.

Please contact the instructor roman@hruskastudios.com if you have any questions or need to cancel. Notice must occur at least 24-hours before the class in order to receive a refund. Registration closes several hours before the start of class.

Wood Shop 102 - Wood Lathe safety and use

  • Prerequisite: Must have some experience with wood turning

  • Class + Materials Fee: $30

  • Class Size: Min-1/Max-2

  • Class Duration: 2 hrs.

This class is to confirm you have some experience and to instruct the student how to use the variable speed lathe with a DRO. Lathe work can be dangerous so we do not want newbies touching this equipment.

Wood Shop 103 - Wood Router Table

  • Prerequisite: Members only and must have completed Wood shop 101

  • Class + Materials Fee: $30

  • Class Size: Min-1/Max-2

  • Class Duration: 2 hrs.

This class is to provide the instruction on the safe use of the router table with the Incra box joint fence. Router tables can be dangerous and we want you to understand how to use the fence so you don’t hurt yourself nor damage the equipment.

Please contact the instructor ericbradford.pe@gmail.com if you have any question.

Wood Shop 104 - CNC Wood Router

  • (Non-Member) Class + Materials Fee $65 (Non-members must bring a signed Bridgewire Waiver to the class)

  • (Member) Class + Materials Fee $45 (members must Sign-In to see price) Prerequisite: Must have completed Wood Shop 101 and have an understand of how to create vector files with graphics software.

  • Class Size: Min-1/Max-3

  • Class Duration: 3 hrs.

This class provides the instruction on the safe use of the CNC wood router. This includes instruction on VCarvePro and Mach4 controller software. Because CNC equipment runs on its own, it is important that users know how to use and manipulate the equipment and software without damaging the equipment. We also want to make sure that anyone taking this class already has an understanding of how to use graphics software.

Please contact the instructor ericbradford.pe@gmail.com if you have questions or need to cancel. Notice must occur at least 24-hours before the class in order to receive a refund. Registration closes several hours before the start of class.

Wood Shop 201 - Floating Shelf or Mantel

  • Prerequisite: Must have completed Wood Shop 101

  • Material Cost: None, will use shop materials or bring your own

  • Class Size: Min-1/Max-3

  • Class Duration: 4 hrs.

    This class provides the materials and the instruction to build an unfinished floating shelf with dimensions of about 5" x 20" x 4" thick - finishing or staining not included in class time

    The class goes through the use of the planer, the table saw and most of the tools in the woodshop.

    Please contact the instructor brendanharrington@mail.com if you have any question.

Bridgewire Wood Shop class