Portland Woodworking Classes for Preteens

Working With Our Hands

In today's world youth rarely get the opportunity to work with their hands. To build a relationships with tools, with wood and their own creativity. To feel pride in a job well done.

Our woodworking courses exist to provide these opportunities. Students choose from a range of age and experience appropriate woodworking projects. With the guidance of Trackers Artisan Guild instructors they learn to safely use tools to build and create what they envision.

The Program

Beginning students start with a simple learning project in the first 1-2 days. Then they move onto more complex work. Their artistic inspiration and goals are key. Instructors personally work with students to express themselves through woodcraft.

Spring Tuesdays Every Tuesdays for 7 weeks. A total of 7 days

Taster Day Sign up for our taster day, held 2-weeks before the seasonal term begins. Experience the program with no commitment, then decide to sign up for the full session.

Returning Artisan? Please contact Molly about our special discount for returning families from the Artisan's Guild: Woodworking School

What We Learn

As with our other woodworking classes all teaching is project based. Beginning with intermediate layout challenges students will learn how to express difficult shapes in wood. This will include making octagons and other polygons, as well as gears and notched shapes. New tools, including the bevel gauge and bevel square will be introduced and utilized in our projects.

The first project, chosen by the student from several choices, will be designed to teach these new skills, afterwards students can design their own projects and look at a multitude of projects designed for their skill level.

Students will learn how to use coping saws to cut along curved lines as they make intricate shapes and pieces for their projects. Students will also learn proper care and use of japanese saws, allowing very detailed cuts to be made. The students knowledge of boring devices will be enhanced as they learn how to pick the proper size fastening for different scales of projects, and also learn new fastening techniques.