REALLY BASIC WOODWORKING
Cherry Console Table by Liza Wheeler (54"x14"x32"h), 2005
Patio Table by Liza Wheeler, typical of the projects students make in this course
Liza Wheeler
July 30 – August 3
This course is for beginners who want to build simple, attractive furniture for the garden, patio, or house using tools and materials readily available from their local lumberyard. Garden benches and chairs, plants stands, and patio tables are some of the pieces that participants can learn to build using dimensioned lumber, common hand and power tools, and screws for fastening.
Liza’s instruction focuses on material selection, cutting techniques, simple fastening methods, and safe use of tools. Participants use hand tools for measuring, layout and cutting, including chisels and block planes. They also have the opportunity to use power tools, such as the chop saw, jigsaw, electric drill and router. Liza teaches this course so that anybody can enjoy making simple furniture while gaining basic skills that are useful for all woodworking.
Liza Wheeler has been a woodworker for seventeen years, first as a carpenter, then as a cabinetmaker in a commercial shop. She studied cabinetmaking and fine woodworking at Seattle Central Community College, and in 1996 she began her own business building cabinetry and commissioned furniture in Liberty, Maine. In recent years, Liza has served as an instructor for our Basic Woodworking, Twelve-week Intensive, and Nine-month Comprehensive courses, in addition to pursuing her own work.