Service

Using mortise machine

Dick Culp mortises window frames for Yeomalt Cabin.

Community service projects

Members of Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop donate their time, skills and equipment to support other service organizations on our island. It’s a great opportunity to provide a service while learning new woodworking techniques with other members. Projects have ranged from making cabinets for the Bainbridge Island Senior Center to building a wheelchair ramp to constructing casement windows for a restored log cabin.

Our partners

We have signed agreements with four community non-profits who sometimes have clients who need but can’t afford small-scale projects involving wood. Working on referrals from these agencies, we are happy to tackle projects such as building shelves and cabinets and repairing furniture. The agencies are the Bainbridge Island Senior Center, Helpline House, Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers and the Housing Resources Board.

Mike Ballou heads the Community Service Committee, which evaluates requests and lines up crews to do the work.

How you can help

If you would like to become involved, please email.

Building the ramp

Tom Kilbane and Dale Spoor install decking for the wheelchair ramp.

  • Not your typical bus shelter

    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.