Hand tool furniture and woodworking skills

Edge City provides classes in traditional and modern woodworking techniques. We offer a range of courses for new and experienced woodworkers, delivered in a safe and welcoming small-group setting.

SHOP for COURSES

Shop tools

  • Top-quality hand tools and hand planes

  • High-end machines with state-of-the-art dust collection

  • A variety of workbenches and vise styles to help students learn their preference for work-holding

  • Located inside of the Mergatroid Building and its artistic community in East Vancouver, BC, Canada

Instruction

  • Our instructors have decades of combined teaching experience

  • We welcome beginners and adult learners with a range of skills and experience

  • Our classes are designed to empower students to grow more confident and independent in their craft

  • We are a positive and encouraging learning community

Classes

  • We offer classes daytime, evenings, and weekends

  • Maximum capacity per class is 6 students

  • We have plenty of tools to share, and we encourage students to bring their own tools (chisels, hand-planes) for maintenance hints

why choose edge city?

Hand planes aligned in a tool chest at the school

FULLY EQUIPPED
SHOP

Train in a dedicated woodworking shop equipped with professional-grade hand tools and machinery. Students gain experience working with the tools and techniques used in fine woodworking projects.

HANDS-ON
LEARNING

We believe the best way to learn woodworking is by doing. Our classes emphasize practical, project-based learning, giving students the opportunity to develop skills through hands-on experience at the bench.

Students using a dado stack on a table saw at Edge City Woodworking School

TRADITIONAL AND
MODERN TECHNIQUEs

Explore the strengths of both traditional hand tools and modern woodworking equipment. Our courses help students understand not just how to use tools, but when and why each approach is most effective.

EXPERIENCED INSTRUCTORS

Learn alongside skilled woodworkers who are passionate about sharing their craft. Our instructors provide guidance, feedback, and support throughout every stage of the learning process.

Instagram :

@edgecitywoodworkingschool

Day 4 of chair class. More drilling and fitting short sticks. Part 1 of 2
Day 3 chair-making. Drilling the arms, with help from a spotter. Final measuring and fitting stretchers for the legs. Trimming the feet for stability.
Introduction to handtools class focuses on technique and skill-based practice and making joinery samples that you will use as a reference for future projects. Throughout your 6 sessions you will learn how to select joints, lay them out, and cut the
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Mergatroid building with arrow at upper window where Edge City Woodworking School is located

Our shop is located upstairs in unit #260 of the artistically eclectic Mergatroid Buildling at 975 Vernon Drive in East Vancouver, British Columbia.

Parking: There is plenty of parking in front of the building and across the street. (signs on front of buildling saying “unauthorized vehicles will be towed” can be ignored for students).

Public Transit: The #22 bus comes within 1 block of the building near the corner of Clark and Venables. We are about a 7 minute walk from Hastings and Clark which serves many bus routes, and a 20 minute walk from the Commercial SkyTrain station.

Be sure to check out all of our amazing neighboring artists in the Mergatroid Building during their OpenStudio times and the Eastside Culture Crawl.

Location

Edge city woodworking school

All of our class details and costs are here: classes

Address:

#260 - 975 Vernon Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Phone:

+1 sixOfour-928-6641

edgecitywoodwork@gmail.com

 

Edge City Woodworking School and Four Square Woodworking Inc., respectfully acknowledges that the land on which they operate are the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ / sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.