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

Jan 18 or Mar 1 (Saturday 8:30am-6:30pm)

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 to take home. 

Woodworking Classes

Make a Keepsake Box II with a Lift Lid and Splines

Taught by Yana Frank

Jan 25 & 26 (Saturday 9am-5pm & Sunday 1-5pm)

Cost: $170, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

This class covers everything done in the Sliding Lid Box class plus some additions. It is a good first class and would be an excellent follow up to the Sliding Lid Box class. The additional skills include making bevel cuts with the table saw, routing rabbets with the router table, drilling holes with the drill press and cutting grooves for splines with the table saw. Each student will make a small wooden box with a lift lid and splines to take home.

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. Spindle turning offers you the largest range of projects you can undertake.

Learn to Turn: Turn a Bowl

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 the methods fundamental to cross grain turning of bowls. You will begin class by practicing bowl turning techniques. Then you will turn a small bowl using the techniques you practiced.

Make a Coffee or End Table

Taught by Steven McLoon

Every Saturday in February plus some additional times. Email Steve for the full itinerary.

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 have experience using a table saw. 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, do the joinery and then glue up the assembled table.

For more information and to reserve a seat, email s.c.mcloon@gmail.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

Jan 18 or Mar 1 (Saturday 8:30am-6:30pm)

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 to take home. 

Woodworking Classes

Make a Keepsake Box II with a Lift Lid and Splines

Taught by Yana Frank

Jan 25 & 26 (Saturday 9am-5pm & Sunday 1-5pm)

Cost: $170, which includes wood and supplies

Enrollment: four students

This class covers everything done in the Sliding Lid Box class plus some additions. It is a good first class and would be an excellent follow up to the Sliding Lid Box class. The additional skills include making bevel cuts with the table saw, routing rabbets with the router table, drilling holes with the drill press and cutting grooves for splines with the table saw. Each student will make a small wooden box with a lift lid and splines to take home.

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. Spindle turning offers you the largest range of projects you can undertake.

Learn to Turn: Turn a Bowl

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 the methods fundamental to cross grain turning of bowls. You will begin class by practicing bowl turning techniques. Then you will turn a small bowl using the techniques you practiced.

Make a Coffee or End Table

Taught by Steven McLoon

Every Saturday in February plus some additional times. Email Steve for the full itinerary.

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 have experience using a table saw. 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, do the joinery and then glue up the assembled table.

For more information and to reserve a seat, email s.c.mcloon@gmail.com

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