Tablesaw Bootcamp
Category:
Skill development
Class Length:
3.5 hours
This intensive, hands-on class is designed to help you build confidence and safety around one of the most versatile tools in the shop: the table saw. You’ll learn every aspect of its use from setup, blade changes, and maintenance to accurate ripping, cross-cutting, and joinery techniques. Through a series of guided exercises that emphasize safety, precision and good habits, students will create a small multi-shelf project while practicing the core operations that make the table saw essential to any woodshop. By the end of the class, you’ll understand how to use a variety of jigs, the miter gauge, and dado blades to make clean, consistent cuts. Perfect for beginners ready to expand their tool knowledge or anyone who wants to refresh their fundamentals in a supportive, small-group setting.
Upcoming class dates:
Class topics and tools:
- Table saw anatomy, adjustments, and maintenance
- Safe ripping and cross-cutting techniques
- Cutting dados and rabbets with miter gauge and dado stack
- Using jigs for finger joints and tapered cuts
- Nail gun introduction and simple project assembly
Open to:
Adults ages 18 years and above and youth
ages 16-17 registered by a parent/guardian
Skill level beginner, intermediate, or advanced:
Intermediate
Prerequisites (if required):
Great if you’ve taken another class with us but ok if you haven’t!
Safety notes:
- Plan to arrive a few minutes before class starts. For safety and instructional reasons, we are not able to allow participants to join the class more than 10 minutes after the class has begun.
- Safety glasses are provided for all participants, though you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
- Hearing protection is strongly encouraged for classes that involve the use of saws and other equipment. Hearing protection is provided for all participants, though you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
- For all classes that involve the use of tools and other equipment:
- Please do not wear dangling jewelry or baggy clothing.
- Closed-toed shoes are required. Sandals are not permitted.
- Long hair must be tied back.
Not yet available!
Cost:
$125
participation. Learn more about our scholarship options below.
Financial support
All of the programming at MAC is supported by donations, which enables us to offer classes at a lower cost to all participants. We also understand that our class fees may still be a barrier to participation for individuals with limited expendable income.
To ensure that our courses are accessible to as many community members as possible, we currently offer three levels of financial support: 25%, 50%, and 75%. If one of these discounts would make your participation possible, please select the option that best aligns with your personal needs and circumstances.
Individual participants may enroll in up to three discounted classes per calendar year.
To receive a financial support discount of 25%, enter “community25” in the Promo Code field of the registration checkout page. To receive a financial support discount of 50%, enter “community50” in the Promo Code field. To receive a financial support discount of 75%, enter “community75” in the Promo Code field.
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