Millennium Studio

Woodworking Classes

Instructors: Yana Frank and Steven McLoon are award winning woodworkers. Each has over 15 years of experience in the trade. They make and sell furniture and crafts in natural wood.

Location: Classes are held in studio 221 in the historic Casket Arts Building. The studio is well equipped with modern woodworking equipment.

Introduction to Woodworking: Make a Keepsake Box with a Sliding Lid

Taught by Yana Frank

Oct 19 or Nov 23 (Saturday 8:30am-6:30pm), or Nov 14 (Thursday)

Cost: $130, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

In this class, you will learn effective and safe ways to use some of the core woodworking tools including the table saw, planer, bandsaw and router. You will learn how to mill wood, resaw, route grooves, and cut tight miter joints. You will understand how to get a continuous grain around the outside of a box. Each student will make a small wooden box with a sliding lid. 

Woodworking Classes

Make a Keepsake Box II with a Lift Lid and Splines

Taught by Yana Frank

Sept 28-29 or Nov 30-Dec 1 (Saturday 9am-5pm & Sunday 1-5pm)

Cost: $170, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: five students

This class is meant to be a follow up to the Sliding Lid Box class. In this class, you will review everything you learned in the first box class, and you will learn new skills. You will make bevel cuts with the table saw, route rabbets with the router table, drill holes with the drill press and cut grooves for splines with the table saw.

Mortise-and-Tenon Joints: A Fundamental Skills Course

Taught by Steven McLoon

Nov 16 (Saturday) – 9:00am-5:00pm

Cost: $130, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

Mortise-and-tenon joints are the most important type of joint used for making wooden furniture. Understanding this joint is an essential skill for any woodworker. In this class, you will first make mortise-and-tenon joints with hand tools. You then will make these joints using common woodworking machinery including a table saw, bandsaw, drill press and router. Finally you will make these joints using specialized machinery including a multi-router, hollow chisel mortiser, Leigh FMT and Festool domino. This is an excellent opportunity to try different types of machines before purchasing your own.

Learn to Turn: Make a Woodworker’s Dead Blow Mallet

Taught by Steven McLoon

Schedule with Steve (typically about 4 hours)

Cost: $150 which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: private one-on-one class

This class is designed for someone new to turning wood on a lathe. You will learn many of the methods fundamental to wood turning and experience most of the important turning tools. You will begin class by practicing turning a spindle. You will rough it into a cylinder and then turn coves, beads and a tenon. Then you will turn a beautiful dead blow mallet (a $50 value) using the techniques you practiced.

Make a Coffee or End Table

Taught by Steven McLoon

Jan 16 (evening zoom), Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1 and Feb 2 (estimates)

Cost: $400, plus the cost of your lumber

Enrollment: four students

This class is meant to bring together many fundamental woodworking skills to make a coffee table or end table of your design. It is essential that students are comfortable using a table saw and making mortise & tenon joints. We will begin by discussing design options, which will lead to you designing your table. Then we will meet at the lumber yard to select your wood. We will mill the components and then do the joinery.

For more information and to reserve a seat, email steven@millennium-studio.com

Woodworking Classes

Millennium Studio

Woodworking Classes

Instructors: Yana Frank and Steven McLoon are award winning woodworkers. Each has over 15 years of experience in the trade. They make and sell furniture and crafts in natural wood.

Location: Classes are held in studio 221 in the historic Casket Arts Building. The studio is well equipped with modern woodworking equipment.

Introduction to Woodworking: Make a Keepsake Box with a Sliding Lid

Taught by Yana Frank

Oct 19 or Nov 23 (Saturday 8:30am-6:30pm), or Nov 14 (Thursday)

Cost: $130, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

In this class, you will learn effective and safe ways to use some of the core woodworking tools including the table saw, planer, bandsaw and router. You will learn how to mill wood, resaw, route grooves, and cut tight miter joints. You will understand how to get a continuous grain around the outside of a box. Each student will make a small wooden box with a sliding lid. 

Woodworking Classes

Make a Keepsake Box II with a Lift Lid and Splines

Taught by Yana Frank

Sept 28-29 or Nov 30-Dec 1 (Saturday 9am-5pm & Sunday 1-5pm)

Cost: $170, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: five students

This class is meant to be a follow up to the Sliding Lid Box class. In this class, you will review everything you learned in the first box class, and you will learn new skills. You will make bevel cuts with the table saw, route rabbets with the router table, drill holes with the drill press and cut grooves for splines with the table saw.

Mortise-and-Tenon Joints: A Fundamental Skills Course

Taught by Steven McLoon

Nov 16 (Saturday) – 9:00am-5:00pm

Cost: $130, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

Mortise-and-tenon joints are the most important type of joint used for making wooden furniture. Understanding this joint is an essential skill for any woodworker. In this class, you will first make mortise-and-tenon joints with hand tools. You then will make these joints using common woodworking machinery including a table saw, bandsaw, drill press and router. Finally you will make these joints using specialized machinery including a multi-router, hollow chisel mortiser, Leigh FMT and Festool domino. This is an excellent opportunity to try different types of machines before purchasing your own.

Learn to Turn: Make a Woodworker’s Dead Blow Mallet

Taught by Steven McLoon

Schedule with Steve (typically about 4 hours)

Cost: $150 which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: private one-on-one class

This class is designed for someone new to turning wood on a lathe. You will learn many of the methods fundamental to wood turning and experience most of the important turning tools. You will begin class by practicing turning a spindle. You will rough it into a cylinder and then turn coves, beads and a tenon. Then you will turn a beautiful dead blow mallet (a $50 value) using the techniques you practiced.

Make a Coffee or End Table

Taught by Steven McLoon

Jan 16 (evening zoom), Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1 and Feb 2 (estimates)

Cost: $400, plus the cost of your lumber

Enrollment: four students

This class is meant to bring together many fundamental woodworking skills to make a coffee table or end table of your design. It is essential that students are comfortable using a table saw and making mortise & tenon joints. We will begin by discussing design options, which will lead to you designing your table. Then we will meet at the lumber yard to select your wood. We will mill the components and then do the joinery.

For more information and to reserve a seat, email steven@millennium-studio.com

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