Wood, Metal & Glass Classes

Explore hands-on classes in woodworking, metalworking, and glass arts, led by skilled makers and instructors. Learn techniques, work with tools and materials, and create functional objects or original works of art.

Custom Chef Knife Making Workshop

Sunset Park

Custom Chef Knife Making Workshop

This knife making class in NYC teaches you to grind, shape, and harden your own custom chef knife from a single steel bar, right in a professional workshop in Industry City, Brooklyn. No knife making experience is needed. Your instructor walks you through safety instruction before any hands-on...

  • $405.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels, Beginner Friendly
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stained glass

Sunset Park

Design and Make Your Own Stained Glass Art

Design and make your own stained glass art in this beginner-friendly stained glass workshop in Industry City, Brooklyn. Using the copper foil technique, also known as the Tiffany method, you’ll turn a simple design into a colorful decorative piece for your home. You might create a small window...

  • $265.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels, Beginner Friendly
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Build an Oak Side Table: Beginner Woodworking Class

Sunset Park

Build an Oak Side Table: Beginner Woodworking Class

Learn to use real power tools like a table saw, router table, and belt sander in this woodworking class in NYC, where your instructor walks you through safety instruction before any hands-on work begins. Held in a professional workshop in Industry City, Brooklyn, this class is built for...

  • $265.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels, Beginner Friendly
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Knife Forging Workshop: Forge Your Own Survival Knife

Sunset Park

Knife Forging Workshop: Forge Your Own Survival Knife

Turning an ordinary piece of rebar into a working knife takes fire, force, and a steady hammer, and that is exactly what this knife forging class in NYC teaches you, right in Industry City, Brooklyn. No blacksmithing experience is needed, and every step happens by hand at a...

  • $275.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels, Beginner Friendly
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Japanese Wood Joinery: Kumiko Flower Vase

East Village

Japanese Wood Joinery: Kumiko Flower Vase

Build your own kumiko flower vase in this beginner-friendly Japanese wood joinery class in NYC. Kumiko is a traditional Japanese woodworking technique that joins delicate wooden pieces without nails or glue. Each piece fits into place through careful cutting, pattern, and pressure. It may look intricate at first,...

  • $90.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels, Beginner Friendly
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Weld Your Own Steel Planter Box

Sunset Park

Weld Your Own Steel Planter Box

Weld your own steel planter box in this beginner-friendly welding class in Industry City, Brooklyn. No experience is needed. You’ll get hands-on time with an actual MIG welder and grinder, guided step by step by instructors who explain each stage clearly and offer plenty of encouragement along the...

  • $265.00
  • Single Session
  • Beginner
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Four Week Direct Wood Carving Class with Carol Griffin

NEW YORK

Four Week Direct Wood Carving Class with Carol Griffin

In this wood carving class in NYC, you'll learn direct carving over four Mondays in Chelsea with Carol Griffin, who apprenticed with master sculptor Lorrie Goulet for more than a decade. Direct carving means working straight into the wood and letting its natural qualities guide the piece, rather...

  • $375.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels
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Silver Clay Pendant: Jewelry Workshop

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Silver Clay Pendant: Jewelry Workshop

This silver clay pendant workshop walks you through shaping a soft, workable form of sterling silver into a solid pendant you design, texture, and fire yourself. Silver clay is real metal in workable form, so this jewelry making class leaves you holding a finished piece of fine jewelry...

  • $225.00
  • Single Session
  • All Levels
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