Open shop time will return in the 2025 season

For earliest notice of the 2025 schedule of orientations, classes, and open shop times, please join our mailing list.

Chase's Mill is very excited to provide open shop time for the community.
There is no charge for using the shop or tools; participants supply their own raw materials.

If you have attended a wood shop class or a Woodworking Shop Orientation session at Chase's Mill, you may drop in to use our tools and equipment, and 'shop' at the by-donation lumber bank for small amounts of wood. Open shop time will return in the 2025 season.

While Chase’s Mill maintains hand and power tools from the 19th century for education and demonstration, we also have everything you would hope to find in a 21st century woodworking shop.

The Lumber Bank. Need one more piece of wood? Want to make something small? Shop our by-donation Lumber Bank and get going right away.

Youth ages 9+ are welcome to use hand tools during open shop time with an accompanying adult, and, after either completing a woodworking class at Chase's Mill or attending a one-hour Woodworking Shop Orientation.  

Contact Jill Hall jhall@chasesmill.org with questions.