Short Course: Saturday School – Furniture Making – FULL for Spring 21 but apply for next term

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This course is full for the Spring 2021 term. Please apply to go on the waiting list or to join the Summer term course.
This is a practical, workshop based course that offers a comprehensive introduction to woodworking and furniture making with hand tools and also some power tools and static machinery. Students will make a dovetailed box with a hinged lid and a small side table to take home at the end of the course. Students will learn:
  • To use marking out tools to lay out joinery.
  • To use a handsaw, chisels and planes to cut and fit basic woodworking joints (dovetails, halvings, mortice and tenons).
  • How to sharpen edge tools (chisels, plane irons).
  • How to hand plane timber from sawn.
  • The safe use of an electric router and how to use it to run grooves in timber.
  • Some basic timber technology and how woodworking joints and furniture are assembled to allow for timber movement.
  • How to clamp and glue up your components.
  • How to cut hinge housings and fit hinges.
  • How to prepare timber surfaces and finish with oil.
  • Lots of tips and tricks and how to fix your mistakes!

Please bring:

  • Steel toe cap boots (TO BE WORN AT ALL TIMES WHILE ON COURSE)
  • H or 2H pencils
  • pencil sharpener
  • rubber/eraser
  • notebook/paper

To apply, please use our online form here

  • College certificate
  • Interest in woodworking/furniture
  • No prior experience necessary

Please bring:

  • Steel toe cap boots (TO BE WORN AT ALL TIMES WHILE ON COURSE)
  • H or 2H pencils
  • pencil sharpener
  • rubber/eraser
  • notebook/paper

 

  • 15 weeks
  • Saturday – full day
  • Fees tbc (please apply via website to register interest and we will contact you with further details)
  • N/A (college certification only)
  • Opportunity to gain material for portfolio or develop your experience in craft/woodworking skills
  • Other woodworking mainstream programme