Create a one of a kind cutting board in this day long workshop and learn about wood selection, milling and building in the process.

This course is being offered in honor and memory of Marshall Webb. Marshall, along with his siblings founded the non-profit, Shelburne Farms and also served as the woodlands manager for many years. Marshall spent his lifetime on the land and embodied the vision of the farm as a true working landscape for learning.

In this class, students who have previously turned a basic bowl will learn to turn a natural edge bowl – a bowl where the rim follows the natural contour of the tree’s outside surface. The new challenges in turning this sort of bowl include a heightened reliance on balancing/centering the blank when first mounting it and making clean finishing cuts on an interrupted surface. If you can reliably find and ride the bevel when turning a basic bowl, this project is a great way to take the next step and improve your touch with the tool and your sense of form, and possibly pick up an advanced cutting technique or two.

In this one week class you will create a beautiful Shaker Table. 

Shaker style furniture is both elegant and simple and the process of crafting one teaches you how our woodshop functions and the basics of furniture building. This course is specifically for beginners and will provide step by step instruction.

This course takes place in our beautiful, light filled woodshop at the very back of our campus. 

All materials for the creation of your table are provided.

Try out woodturning in this single-session beginner class in which students will learn to safely mount a hardwood blank between centers on a wood lathe, and then use spindle roughing gouges, parting tools and calipers to measure and shape a rolling pin tailored to their preferences. The finished projects will be ready to take home that night and put to work right away. 

This course takes place in our beautiful, light filled woodshop at the very back of our campus. 

All materials for the creation of your rolling pin are provided.

Over the course of three weeks, students will learn how to turn a chunk of tree trunk into a wooden bowl or vessel. Students will learn about shop and machine safety while practicing wood turning with blank starts on a lathe. This class assumes no prior wood turning experience but may be repeated for more challenging projects and instructor guidance.

We source our wood for bowl turning predominately from Shelburne Farms.

This course takes place in our beautiful, light filled woodshop at the very back of our campus. 

All materials for the creation of your rolling pin are provided.

Over the course of three weeks, students will learn how to turn a chunk of tree trunk into a wooden bowl or vessel. Students will learn about shop and machine safety while practicing wood turning with blank starts on a lathe. This class assumes no prior wood turning experience but may be repeated for more challenging projects and instructor guidance.

We source our wood for bowl turning predominately from Shelburne Farms.

This course takes place in our beautiful, light filled woodshop at the very back of our campus. 

All materials for the creation of your bowl(s) are provided.