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This class has been postponed.

Using mostly hand tools, build a space-saving Dutch tool chest with plenty of built-in storage for your hand tools.
This style of tool chest features a slanted lid, which hides a specialized storage area for planes, saws and smaller tools, such as chisels and marking gauges. Perhaps the slanted lid was originally intended to shed rain? Now it serves as a convenient drawing table when you need to sketch joinery details or other features of a woodworking project. Another unique feature is the fall front, which opens up to reveal a cavernous storage area for all of the other tools you may need to build any project.
Although this style of tool chest can be built out of many different woods, for this class we will use pine. Many traditional Dutch tool chests were made of this wood because it is lightweight for easy portability, yet strong.
Among the specific skills you will learn:

• How to use the table saw, the band saw and the miter saw to cut pieces to rough size.
• How to use hand tools to refine the pieces to final dimensions and to create other details.
• How to make dovetails in a hybrid way, using both a band saw and hand tools to refine the fit.

Details:

• Open to relative beginners but please be checked out on use of the table saw, miter saw and band saw before the class. The best way to do this is by taking our three-hour Woodshop Tool Safety Checkout 1 class. If you want to sign up for that but classes listed on the calendar are full, please email using this form and we will open a spot for you.
• A materials fee of $70 to cover the wood and hardware will be collected online when you register and pay. If you pay by check, please add this amount to the class fee.
• If the four 3-hour class sessions are not enough for you to finish your project, you may need to do additional work during the woodshop's 30 hours a week of open studio time.
  

Instructors: Todd Butler, assisted by Dick Culp. Both grew up in woodworking families and have studied hand tool use at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Todd is a Furnituremaker through his part time business, The Butler Did It and uses hand tools regularly. Dick is on the board of directors at the Port Townsend school and has taught hand tool classes at BARN.