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Bob Spangler teaches "Gluing Essentials for Woodworkers."

What do you want to learn?

Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop teams up with our local park and recreation department to offer classes for woodworkers of all skill levels. Until we have a shop, the courses will consist mostly of demonstrations. Eventually, we plan to offer a wide range of hands-on classes.

How to sign up

As with other classes offered through the park district, ours are listed in a brochure mailed to all residents of the island. You can also see the current listings and find out how to register through the park district’s website.

Suggest a new class

Our Education Committee is surveying members so we can offer classes that best suit members’ interests and skill levels. The more feedback we get, the better. Please participate.

What you’ll learn

Participants in past classes have been thrilled at the tips they learned. Read Peter Eddy’s report about the “Gluing Essentials for Woodworkers” course taught by furniture maker Bob Spangler at his shop.

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    Bus shelter framing The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timberframed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled and finished the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development. Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood, and timberframers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery. See how the structure took shape.