If you have taken some classes for hand cut joinery or our beginner classes but are not familiar with the machining process then this is the class for you. The focus of this 5-day class is the machining process and it covers every step from selecting the rough sawn timber, milling the components to final dimension, all the way through to completing a pair of stools.

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.

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

New Course

This new carving course is for those who have previous carving experience and want to extend their skill set.

This intermediate carving course will extend your existing carving skills adding more technical processes. 

Personalise a petite cabinet design with Churchill Fellow and Australian master designer/maker Evan Dunstone. This two–week course is designed for the intermediate to advanced maker.

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 weekend course has been designed for anyone looking to put a high quality finish onto their creations

Students will be introduced to different methods of finishing with oils and finishing coats

Sanding and Scraping techniques to be covered

Elevate your woodworking skills to the next level and create a centre piece coffee table for your home. This 6-day course is for those who have some previous woodworking experience and familiarity with operating a bandsaw, tablesaw, drillpress and are comfortable using handtools.

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.

This two–week introductory course for the beginning enthusiast will establish a solid skill base and provide the foundation skills for future fine 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 5-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.

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.

In this 3-day course students will carve a Netsuke (The Japanese art of miniature carving ) Mushroom with insect. This course is suitable for beginners, or anyone at any skill level.

In this course students will make an elegant small standing sculpture (Möbius) using hand chisels.

This 3-Day Course is suitable for those with no experience to any skill level.

This 5-Day Advanced Course is suitable for those with experience in carving.

The beautiful Möbius form will be explored in this intensive course while you design and carve your own Möbius shape.

This intensive two-week course is designed for intermediate woodworkers who want to deepen their understanding of chair design and construction through the making of a sophisticated, prescribed chair.

The chair design is by Ben Grant and addresses foundational chair design principles, as well as a range of advanced woodworking techniques. By the end of the two weeks, students will have gone through the chair making process and gained a significantly expanded skill set applicable to high-level furniture making.

This James Krenov style cabinet is an introduction to classic cabinet making and covers a range of traditional techniques. Designed to follow our popular Introduction to Fine Woodworking course. This course is good for those with at least a basic level of woodworking experience.

This 2-day 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.

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.

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

This two–week course is designed for the intermediate to advanced maker and offers a wonderful opportunity to build one of David Haig’s iconic designs - the elegant, practical and very comfortable hoop stool.

Join us for a hands-on, two-week workshop where you will delve into the art of steam bending to design and create functional objects.

This course will explore steam bending techniques to incorporate curved elements into everyday items.

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.