Offered: Every 3 months

Duration: 4 hours

Registration: $90 (including supplies) or $60 (bring your own wood)

Slides: N/A

Description: In this four-hour hands-on workshop, we’ll use woodworking tools and techniques to take hardwood boards through to finished headphone stands. During registration, you’ll determine whether you want to bring your own wood or have it supplied for you - in which case we’ll handle getting the materials, so you just need to show up on the day of the workshop. You'll also decide whether you want to make a one-headphone or two-headphone stand - examples of each are in the photos below - so we can supply the correct materials.

During the workshop, we’ll talk through the process, explain some fundamentals, and walk through a safety briefing. Once the basics are out of the way, each workshop attendee will work on cutting, shaping, and assembling their headphone stand, guided by our staff. Finally, we’ll walk through some basic finishing techniques you can use to protect your new headphone stand for years to come!

Along the way, we’ll learn how to use some of the most common woodworking power tools - band saws, miter saws, drill presses, routers, and sanders - as well as hand tools such as chisels and files. We’ll also discuss how to create your own custom router templates - a fantastic skill if you want to create a set of matching items or start producing goods to sell.

Attendees will leave this workshop with an understanding of how to safely use a range of common woodworking power hand hand tools, knowledge of common topics in woodworking such as grain direction and finishing, and a beautiful headphone stand to show off or give as a gift!

The photos below illustrate a two-headphone stand in flame maple and a one-headphone stand in mahogany, as well as some of the tools, supplies, and templates used in the workshop.