Description

Date: December 14th, 2024, 9am – 4:30pm

Instructor: Wild The Woodworker

Location: Paonia, Colorado (Menagerie Woodworking — map here).

Level: Beginner (No experience needed)

Our woodworking teacher, Wild, creates beautiful furniture out of gnarled fruitwood, using pieces that aren’t considered to be usable by most. All of his wood is collected from our local forests and orchards in western Colorado, prioritizing wood that is discarded from other projects like orchard pruining. Every piece is unique, shaped around the contours of the wood.

In this class, you’ll create a juniper wood stool while learning the basics of Wild’s process: harvesting and processing fruitwood pieces, stripping bark with a draw-shave, preparing a disc for the stool top, joining the legs to the top, and sanding and finishing the piece. You’ll go home with a unique 3-legged stool made from all-local wood!

Meet The Instructor

Wild The Woodworker

Wild is a woodworking artisan creating custom-made tree furniture with reclaimed materials and local hardwoods. Wild left a career as a wildlife biologist to pursue woodworking, and has developed his craft to rely as little as possible on the timber industry, opting instead to use discarded orchard wood, fallen trees, and other reclaimed materials to create his beautiful furniture. You can see a gallery of his work on his website, Menagerie Woodworking.