2 Day Shaker Box Course (in 3 graduating sizes.)
Suitable for all levels of woodworking enthusiasts. It’s also a family friendly course suitable for parents to take the course with their kids who are over 14.

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This 3-Day Course is designed for those with some basic experience and interested in making adjustable and reusable jigs for their home workshop.

In this course students will create a set of useful jigs and gain an understanding of how jigs can be used to improve accuracy, safety and repeatability when applied to their own woodworking projects.

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2-week course is designed for those with at least basic woodworking experience.

Whilst no one chair can cover all the approaches to chair making, this course covers many of the major challenges associated with chairs.

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In this 5-day course you will enjoy the experience of crafting and fitting a classic drawer. It is designed for those with at least basic or intermediate experience. This course follows on well from the Introduction to Fine Woodworking course.

This 2-day course offers an introduction to wood machining in a safe and efficient way. It is intended for the beginner or someone who is starting to set up their own workshop. It’s also a great course for companies or schools to send their staff, tutors, or students to ensure the safest environment possible within their organisation.

This 2-day course is designed for the beginner or any maker with an interest in learning how to maintain your own machines. It’s also a great course for companies or schools to send their staff, tutors, or students to ensure the machines within their organisations are kept in peak condition.

It’s an introduction into the care and maintenance requirements of the four most common woodworking machines.

This 2-day beginner course will familiarise students with their own hand held router and introduce a range of techniques to get the most out of this versatile power tool.

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We will be running this course again 23rd - 24th August, 2025

This 6-day master class is an intermediate to advanced level course covering steam bending and cutting accurate joinery on curved sections.

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This 4-day class is suitable for the absolute beginner, or any maker interested in testing the limits of bending wood. This course will introduce you to the delights of steam bending, hot pipe bending and laminating.

This 4-Day "taster" course is for the absolute beginner, offering a convenient and accessible opportunity to come and have a go at some woodworking.

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This two–week introductory course for the beginning enthusiast will establish a solid skill base and provide the foundation skills for future fine woodworking.  

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This course is a perfect opportunity for anyone who enjoys designing and is eager to expand their creative horizons in woodworking.

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This 6 day course was designed for woodworkers with at least an intermediate skill level.

The course focuss on learning to cut dovetails by hand, and incorporating them into an elegant box.

We are offering an exciting opportunity to those who would like to spend six weeks of uninterrupted time dedicated to creating their own new design or concept, working alongside Michael in a highly motivated, encouraging and open studio environment.

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“Chasing the line” is an exploration of line and form through the carving of a seed pod inspired form. 3-Day Course. Suitable for those with no experience to any skill level.

This 6-day course has been designed for anyone with some basic experience. Follows well from the Woodworking Basics course or the Introduction to Fine Woodworking.

Students will create an elegant small hall or sofa table.

2 Day Shaker Box Course (in 3 graduating sizes)
Suitable for all levels of woodworking enthusiasts. It’s also a family friendly course suitable for parents to take the course with their kids who are over 14.

The 5-day Korean Bath Stool project is an excellent opportunity to use a selection of marking/measuring tools, common hand tools, some power tools and machinery.

In this 3-day course students will create a set of useful jigs and gain an understanding of how jigs can be used to improve accuracy, safety and repeatability when applied to their own woodworking projects.

The 8 week Beginners Intensive Programme establishes a very solid skill base for all aspiring woodworkers and provides the core foundation skills for future fine furniture making and woodworking.

2-week course designed for those with at least basic woodworking experience.

Whilst no one chair can cover all the approaches to chair making, this course covers many of the major challenges associated with chairs. Students will make a pre-designed full-size dining chair and in so doing, experience multiple stages of chair design and construction.

This two day Spoon Carving course introduces students to in–the–round carving using the well–known shape of the spoon as a model.

Create a two part piece – a container with lid to hold a treasured / taonga object.

In this course students will carve a Netsuke ( The Japanese art of miniature carving ) Fish.

Kumiko is the traditional Japanese technique of refined lattice work used for forming decorative
panels.

Carve a bespoke walking stick with the handle being the main feature. This next level course provides the opportunity for students to develop their existing carving skills to create a three dimensional design which can either be used or displayed.

A 5-day deep dive into wooden planes. How to make and tune them and apply them to your practice as a craftsperson.

This three–week course will be a wonderful and indulgent opportunity to come and craft a steel string Dreadnought guitar, or a nylon string Classical or Flamenco guitar.

A 5-day technique based course all about many of the joints required to make a structurally sound cabinet. This will include dovetails, finger joints, mitres, through wedged stub tenons, double tapered sliding dovetails and much more.

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