Instructor: Douglas Green
Monday - Friday
July 13 - 17
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

In this five-day workshop, Doug will provide an introduction to a variety of core woodworking principles and hands-on skills through the design and construction of a challenging woodworking project.  Topics will include joinery (mortise & tenon, dovetails); letter carving; hand tools; band saw and table saw skills; tool sharpening and wood finishing.  The goal of this workshop is for each participant to hand craft a finished heirloom piece to take home at the end of the course.

Doug Green first began woodworking in the late 1970’s, making small wooden boxes at his kitchen table, eventually becoming a master cabinetmaker in the prestigious shop of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers where his love for design blossomed. A few years after earning a master’s degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, Doug patented an innovative process for sustainable furniture manufacturing. That led to the founding of Green Design Furniture Co. in 1993 in Portland, Maine, where his designs were produced until his retirement in 2020. Currently, Doug is learning how to carve miniature sculptures in the tradition of Japanese Netsuke in his waterfront studio in Portland, Maine.

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