Instructor - Craig Stevens

November 16 - 17, 2024 9am - 4pm (1 weekend)

The solid wood plant stand is a terrific beginner furniture project based around traditional joinery and woodworking techniques. Students develop hand tool, joinery, and finishing skills while creating a light, strong furniture piece for their home. Through discussions and hands-on work, each student makes a plant stand with tapered, hand-shaped legs, sized for a 10” pot.

Students will develop skills in accurately laying out the joinery, cutting and fitting the mortise and tenon joints that join the horizontal rails to the legs, locating and cutting the half-lap joints that connect the rails together, tapering and shaping the legs with hand tools. We’ll also suggest oil finishes that students will apply on their own at home.

Developing and improving participants’ woodworking skills is a primary goal of the class. The fundamental techniques learned while making the plant stand can be applied to many future furniture pieces. Like our other Beginner courses, the plant stand project is aimed at those just getting started in woodworking as well as woodworkers with some experience that want to improve their skills.

Dimensions: 33” tall x 9 1/2” wide (13” diagonally)

The 10” pot is not included.