PAAS WOODWORKING RESOURCES

Palo Alto Adult School Woodworking Classes

Handouts from class, understanding wood

• straight_flat_square (pdf)
• The Way Wood Works(pdf)

• Bench Class Fall 2008

• General outline for bench(pdf)

• a sturdy footstool Spring 2008

• footstool(pdf)

WHERE TO BUY WOOD

• Search

• Wood Central
• Woodfinder

• Local shops SF and Peninsula

• MacBeath (sf,berkeley,sj)
• Minton's Lumber(Mountain View, )
• Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.(brisbane)
• Bruce Bauer

• Local shops East Bay

• Higgins Hardwoods(Livermore)
• Green Waste Recycle Yard(Berkeley/Richmond)
• Higgins Hardwoods(Livermore)
• White brothers Mill(Oakland)
• Handloggers( Pt. Richmond)
• Woods Unlimited
• MacBeath (sf,berkeley,sj)

• Local shops South Bay

• Pine Cone Lumber(Sunnyvale)
• Plywood and Lumber sales(San Jose+)
• Southern Lumber(San Jose, all surfaced, have almost everything$$)
• Aura Hardwoods(Santa Clara, limited selection)
• Global Woodsource(San Jose, local and exotic)
• Jackel Enterprises(watsonville)
• MacBeath (sf,berkeley,sj)

WOODWORKING RESOURCES AND TOOLS

• Tools

• Lee Valley
• Tools Today
• Coastal Tool
• Amana tool
• rowecraft 1ok+ products
• tools of the trade
• woodline
• sawstop
• cb tools
• western tool
• mlcs woodworking, router bits& more
• Old Wood Working Machines
• Grizzly Industrial Machines(good prices)

• Organizations

• Taunton Press
• Bay Area Woodworkers Association
• good links to Resources from BAWA
• Preserving Arts and Skills of the Trades
• BAG bay area galoots

Home Construction Links

• Build.com
• Building Online directory
• MSU information resources
• Improve Net
• This Old House
• Toolbase Services
• Homeissues
• home improvement web ring
• Traditional Building
• Advanced Buildings
• green building exchange
• eco design resources
• plumbing supply

• Low VOC plywood and engineered wood

• Sierra Pine...arreis
• Columbia Forrest Products...Pure Bond

• Wood Preservation and Conservation Products

• Rot Doc Wood Treatment and Preservation Products(i have used this, works great)
• ConServ FLEXIBLE EPOXY CONSOLIDANT(have not tried it)

• finishing handouts

• getting started finishing
• wood finishing options

PREVIOUS PROJECTS (Beginning Class)

• A Shaker Bench , begining woodworking project fall 2007

• bench
• bench sketch 1
• bench sketch 2

a sturdy footstool spring 2006

a knockdown bench

a shaker style table

• contact rayan at stanford dot edu