With: Jim Gruber and Paul Rodrigue

Class Fee: $40.00 per adult/$45.00 adult with child

Materials Fee: Basic maple included. For exotic woods or to use your own materials, please check "let's talk about wood!" on the registration form below, or email jhall@chasesmill.org.

Class Size: 8 / children ages 12+ with accompanying adult

Optional second session for those who choose glued construction, Sunday, June 30, 9am-12pm.

Using maple, cherry, or other hardwoods, participants will design and make a cutting, cheese, or charcuterie board. A basic cutting board from one piece of wood can be made during the first three hour class. For those wishing to glue up different types of wood in their board, the second class session is available to complete the project. This class will use hand and/or power tools potentially including a planer, joiner, table saw, drill, band saw, router, belt/random orbital sanders, and/or a wood burner kit. Suitable for both beginner and intermediate woodworkers. Materials - Maple for basic board included. If you are interested in exotic woods price will vary.

Paul Rodrigue has been building furniture and kitchen items for over 20 years. He prefers to use hand tools as much as possible and is partial to colonial design and techniques. His first cutting board was a replica of one built in Mill Hollow.

Jim Gruber has been making things out of wood for over 40 years. He chiseled the oak post and beam timber frame for his current Alstead home at Chase's Mill in 1979. He taught woodworking for kids at the Mill in the early 1980s and timber frame house design classes at Keene State College. Working with native woods has become a life-long joy that he shares with his kids.