DIY Coffins

Randy Schnobrich, a professional woodworker, offers a class entitled Bury Yourself In Your Work: Build Your Own Casket in Grand Marais, Minnesota. For $700, participants build their own coffins out of inch-thick cabinet grade pine over a three day period. The majority of the construction involves hand tools as opposed to electric tools, and participants learn how to create dovetail joints and coffin handles.

See Jon Kalish, Coffin-Making Class, Make, Nov. 21, 2011.