Want to create a beautiful and practical item for your home? Learn a fine craft during the Traditional Woodworking for the Kitchen workshop at the Mennonite Heritage Center, Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. The workshop, led by woodworker John W. Munro, will be an opportunity for novice and intermediate woodworkers to focus on and learn the use of traditional hand tool use in carving and making traditional wooden spoons, ladles, spatulas, cutting boards and bowls.
The use of curved gouges, mallets and mauls, spokeshaves, drawknives, scorps, shaving horses, froes, planes and scraping blades will be demonstrated by the instructor and used by the attendees.
Tool safety, tool handling, tool sharpening, wood selection, and woodenware design will be taught. Kitchen woodenware is our starting point; however the methods taught apply to carving and other applications of woodwork.
Attendees will select from pre-cut blanks of a variety of wooden items and cut, carve, and finish them with the help of the instructor. Some tools and adequate workbenches will be provided.
Workshop fee is $65 ($60 members) plus $20.00 tool use and materials fee. Preregistration is required. Register online or by phone 215-256-3020. No refunds are given unless a workshop is canceled for insufficient enrollment.
For any previous attendees, the workshop would be an extension of the first workshop rather than a repetition of beginning skills for them. A list of tools materials and recommendations will be supplied upon registration.