Box making courses

Learn to turn in Devon! Chris runs courses in his well-equipped workshop in Ashburton, on the edge of Dartmoor in South Devon. Each course is tailored to meet the individual needs of the student, their capabilities and experience, whether complete novice or more advanced turner. The correct selection and use of tools and equipment, and the characteristics of the materials and finishes we use are fully explained, along with important health and safety considerations, to advance the students' proficiency and skill in the woodturners' craft. Full-face shields will be provided...

The box making courses are now back up and running starting in August. 2 day box making courses held on weekends throughout the year in beautiful Cumbria. Make your own handmade wooden box. New dates have been added to replace cancelled courses, and are filling up quickly - please request your preferred date above. The courses are fun and relaxed, yet will give you the skills & confidence to make stunning boxes on your own. The courses are run from a fully equipped cabinet making workshop. All tools and safety...

Box making workshop: A truly unique gift or commemorative way to remember special occasions. Ideal for christenings, birthdays, anniversaries, the arrival of a new family member or special keepsakes. You can also add on an engraved plaque for just £12. Our introductory price for the Box Making Workshop includes the £85 cost of the Memory Box. NB – Workshops are limited to 6 places to ensure you have a personalised experience. Dimensions: (L) 220mm (W) 150mm (H) 120mm The course is a fantastic introduction to woodwork skills, with no experience...

This two day course is intended to stretch those with a degree of woodworking experience or maybe has already attended my Beginners/Basics course. However, this is not essential, as full detailed instruction will be given in the making of a small box with lift off lid. The theme will be the detailed process of hand cutting dovetails. This will give you an introduction and experience into creating the cabinet maker's ultimate joint. The course will be predominately project led through the making of a small trinket box in English Oak,...

Lee Furniture offer a beginners course in cabinetmaking. This course is for the beginner interested in making furniture. The course is hands on and will be based around using tools and machinery to plane wood, use of hand tools to include the correct use of: Marking out tools Planes Chisels Scrapers Power tools

If you have any sort of urge to move on from straight lines and get a few curves into your woodworking designs, Laminating is going to be the vital technique that you will need to master. In essence, laminating is a pretty simple concept, after all it’s just combining thin bits of wood with glue and holding them in the desired shape until the glue has set. As with most simple things though, there are tricks and techniques that will give you a head start and guarantee success. Moulds &...

The Additional Skills Week is the perfect follow-on course to the Skills Week or Skills Weekend, if you have the basic skills under your belt, this will give you the chance to review and refine those critical cabinetmaking elements of planing, sawing and chiselling. We will then build on those skills with some new techniques, including some laminating and veneering, to make an elegant dovetailed jewellery box. The cornerstone of all cabinetmaking is accurate planing, a little revision of basic technique, some gossamer thin shavings, will be followed by preparation...

Would you like to do some woodworking at home on your kitchen table? I've got just the thing! This is the first of my new kits for home woodworking projects, which hopefully will give you all something nice to work on while you are staying at home. The design is based on a box that I originally made to hold a Japanese plane that I'm especially fond of, but the size could lend itself to housing all sorts of precious things. It uses lap joints that are pinned with tiny...