How to Use a Hand Plane A hand plane is a great tool for woodworking projects, large and small, and its definitely a skill you should have learned how to handle in shop class.

Roosevelt High School students clean up at the end of class where they built bookshelves from the wood from old synagogue pews on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015.

In fourth grade, however, I loved shop class and even skipped out on recess to work on solo projects with my woodworking teacher. It felt so good to make something through physical work.

In John Puckett’s wood shop class, the more important half of the building is the part where there are no machines, no projects and no wood. His students at Katella High in Anaheim depend for ...

The kind of projects that come out of the typical high school wood shop class are probably things that eventually end up in the trash.

KENNEBUNK – Eighth-grader Miranda Godek got placed in a design class in the wood shop at the Middle School of the Kennebunks back in September. She wasn’t sure how she was going to like it ...

It started with a picture and a question. As part of a group text chain he maintains with former classmates, Mike Vajda posted a picture of the desk he built in their high school wood shop class ...

High school wood shop class in RI is unique: Marine carpentry teaches lifelong skills 'Pieces of art:' Tiverton High School students take pride in the wooden boats they build ...

NEW MILFORD — Students enrolled in several woodworking classes at New Milford High School may not be making the types of projects they’re used to right now, as a result of having been ...

The whirring and grinding of table saws and sanders, along with the scent of cut pine, greet anyone who stumbles into Pete Boyko’s wood shop class at Chaparral High School. Those sights and ...