Short Courses - Beginners
These are our short courses that are designed for the absolute beginner. Come and enjoy a short course where you can make a beautiful piece to take home. Some courses will teach skills that give you the foundation for your future woodworking endeavours. And some are specifically designed to support makers setting up their own workshop.
All course times are 9am - 4:30pm. 2-week course have the middle weekend off. We observe all public holidays.
Courses suitable for absolute beginners.
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.
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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.
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 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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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 two–week introductory course for the beginning enthusiast will establish a solid skill base and provide the foundation skills for future fine woodworking.
This 5-day class is suitable for beginners, or any maker interested in learning about wood bending. This course will introduce you to the delights of steam bending, hot pipe bending and laminating.
This two week decorative box course is an ideal project to introduce intricate veneer work while developing fine box making techniques. Students will build a box using a veneered pattern of their own design that seamlessly wraps down and around the sides of the box.