SIMI VALLEY SCHOOLS
Take a look at a kickback on a tablesaw and ways to keep from happening!
Interested in a career that includes construction or cabinet making? Check out this web site-
Check out this site to find current information about jobs and salaries in Ventura County!
Check out this easy way to make your own custom dowel out of any material you happen to be working with!
Ever wondered how lumber is graded and what affects the price.
Find out what OSHA is and how it affects you and your job.
Royal Woodworking Pathway
Welcome to the Wood Shop Web Page. Please take your time to brows the site and see the incredible work students are doing at Royal HS. The woodworking pathway consists of four classes that are available to students multiple through their four years at Royal High. These classes give students a broad exposure to various types of woodworking as well as management and a capstone experience and prepare them for going on to a career or whatever future they should choose to pursue. These courses are articulated with Ventura College's Construction program and Cerritos College's Woodworking Manufacturing program should a student want to pursue either of these fields as a career. Check out the Pathway page to find out more information about the Royal Wood Pathway.
NEW NEWS:
~Woodshop is back in business and in person for 2022
~Check out our partnership with the Simi Valley Historical Society!
~Check out our Urban Logging Initiative in the video below to see this exciting new program for kids to get involved in!
The Royal woodshop has started a Urban Logging project to help the Parks and Rec department. The Royal Woodshop recycles trees that must be taken down in the local parks. The parks department delivers them to the logging compound at Royal and the students cut them up into usable pieces of wood. Do you have a tree that is being taken out? We might be able to turn your tree into usable lumber for you!
Royal students listen to local businessman Richard Campato talk about Hi-Tech careers.
See Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs guy, and why he thinks woodshop, and others like it, are such important classes to keep around!
Find out more about the Royal Construction/ Cabinet Making Careers by clicking on the link at the top of the page!
EMAIL: james.sorenson@simivalleyusd.org
Prep: 5th Period
Phone: call switchboard x 2905
Watch a steam powered lumber mill cut an enormous Ponderosa Pine log into lumber!
Learn what quarter sawn lumber is and how the lumber is cut from a log. Quarter sawn lumber is the most stable lumber to build furniture with!
Check out the different ways lumber is cut at the saw mill and how it affects the price you pay at the store.
Watch this fascinating video to see how veneers and plywoods are made.
This is an introductory class to veneers and why we use them!
This video shows the correct way to apply veneer to a substrate using contact cement and a roller
Check out this look at the modern day woodworker.
