ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop, center for traditional wooden boatbuilding and seamanship, will offer two metalworking workshops this fall:

Brazing Workshop: Custom Pintles and Gudgeons with Erica Moody, Oct. 26 to 30. This workshop will be both an overview and a hands-on exploration of basic soldering and brazing for small custom metal marine hardware in bronze. In making pintle and gudgeons for small-scale wooden boats, the week-long class will cover cutting, drilling, bending, silver brazing, riveting, and finishing bronze.

This is a one week class, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m .to 4 p.m. at the Apprenticeshop. Cost is $495. Erica is the founder of Magma Metalworks in Beverly, MA and has worked as a professional metal fabricator since 1994. Learn more about Erica’s work in the July/August issue of WoodenBoat Magazine.

Bronze Casting with Doug Borkman of the Rhode Island School of Design, Nov. 6 to 8. Doug teaches wood and metal shop practice in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) BFA and MFA Sculpture programs and has previously taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. 

This is a three-day workshop, Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Apprenticeshop. Cost is $375 plus a $50 materials fee. On the first day of the workshop participants will work with Apprenticeshop staff to build a small wooden cleat. On Saturday and Sunday they will then work with Doug Borkman to cast that same cleat in bronze.

Class size is limited; interested participants are encouraged to register early. To sign up for a fall workshop or to learn more, visit  apprenticeshop.org/programs/#workshops  or call 207-594-1800. The Apprenticeshop, operating since 1972, is a center for traditional wooden boat building and seamanship at 655 Main Street in Rockland’s North End.