Instructor: Doug Green
Monday - Friday
July 8 - 12
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm

This 5-day workshop will provide an introduction to a variety of essential woodworking principles and skills through the design and construction of a simple hardwood box with a hinged lid. Topics will include fashioning dovetail joints with hand tools, bandsaw and table saw skills, tool sharpening and wood finishing.  The goal of this workshop is to grow skills and for each participant to create a beautifully finished heirloom piece to take home. Specifically, crafting this small jewelry box you will be making a dovetailed case, sliding or hinged lid, and dovetailed removable shelf.

Doug Green first began woodworking in the late 1970s making small wooden boxes at his kitchen table, eventually becoming a master cabinetmaker in the prestigious shop of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers. Years later, Doug patented an innovative process for furniture manufacturing that led to the founding of Green Design Furniture Co. in 1993.  In his retirement, Doug is learning how to carve miniature sculptures in the tradition of Japanese Netsuke in his waterfront studio in Portland, Maine.