Wood courses

Sub categories: Boat building & coracle making, Box making, Furniture making, Furniture restoration, Longbow making, Pyrography, Spoon carving, Timber framing, Tools: power tools, hand tools & sharpening tools, Traditional woodland crafts & green woodworking, Wood carving, Wood turning, Woodwork

Are you interested in woodwork? Perhaps the smell of a woodwork shop is perfume to your nostrils? Maybe the words lathe, chisel and dowel fire your imagination? You may already have extensive woodwork skills and, if so, you will know there is always more to learn when it comes to working with wood. Perhaps you want to learn the basics of wood carving or tackle the rudiments of wood turning on the lathe. Look no further! Soon you could be spending time in a creative wood workshop with a master of the craft...

£150

Make a Shave Horse at Sallerton Wood

Devon - Next course on 15th June 2019

These two-day courses teach a wide range of green woodworking techniques whilst making your own traditional greenwood shaving horse using hardwood timber sourced within the woodland. The topics covered include the properties of green wood, cleaving techniques and the use of traditional hand tools and equipment such as draw-knives and pole lathes. A shave horse is a fundamental piece of kit needed by all green woodworkers and it will be yours to keep at the...

£200

Make a Windsor-style stool

Greater London - Next course on 19th January 2019

This course will run over two consecutive Saturdays between 10am and 5pm and involve the creation of a beautiful three-legged Windsor-style stool using traditional chair-making tools and techniques. You'll learn how to split freshly felled timber straight from the log, then fashion the legs of your stool with a variety of simple hand tools such as the axe, drawknife and spokeshave. You'll then use an adze and travisher to shape a comfortable saddle. This process...

£90

Woodturning Courses in Portsmouth

Hampshire

Students will first be shown around the workshop to help familiarise them with the tools, the machinery and the safe use of them, then a brief chat about possible projects to see what excites you, this introduction to the workshop helps me get an understanding of your capabilities. There are a number of interesting projects that can be turned in a day depending on the ability of the student. The time it takes for each...

£220

Ash Splint Basket Weaving

Cumbria - Next course on 22nd June 2019

This workshop is suitable for those that are completely new to working with wood and participants do not need any prior experience of weaving. Adults only, or over 16 when accompanied by a paying adult. This workshop will be limited to 8 participants. The workshop will focus specifically on the following areas: • Choosing a suitable tree for harvesting splint material • Pounding a log to create splints • Grading splints suitable for different elements...

£550

Build a Bowl Lathe & Learn to Turn

Cumbria - Next course on 18th March 2019

Over the course of the four days of this workshop you will build your very own bowl turning lathe to take home and spend some time learning to turn beautiful, functional wooden bowls. Adults only, or over 16 when accompanied by a paying adult. This workshop will be limited to 4 participants. The workshop will focus specifically on the following areas: • The skills required to build your own historic Viking style bowl turning lathe...

£640

Furniture Making - Joints Week - Make a Table, all you need to know about Joints

East Sussex - Next course on 12th August 2019

Time to make your first piece of furniture! Or, perhaps, time to make your first accurate, crisp, precisely-made, piece of furniture. This is a great follow-on course from ‘Skills Week’ but will also happily stand alone if you have at least a little woodworking experience. Successful furniture making is based on good design, well thought out construction, and accurate execution of all the many components and joints that will be brought together to create, not...

£590

Furniture Making - Skills Week Essential Cabinetmaking Hand Skills - 5 days in East Sussex

East Sussex - Next course on 8th April 2019

The Cabinetmaking Skills Week is the course you’ve been waiting for. If you’re a complete beginner this will give you the perfect grounding; if you’ve been woodworking for a while, this will be a great tune-up, sorting out any bad habits and reinforcing fundamental skills. Everything in Woodwork is based on Sharpening so this is the initial focus. You MUST have a sharpening system at your fingertips that works for you, we will look at...

£595

Furniture Making Course: Fundamentals of Furniture Making Part (Beginner) - 4 Day (weekend) Course in Surrey

Surrey - Next course on 23rd February 2019

This beginner’s furniture making course is designed to extend your knowledge and practical experience of making high quality furniture. I will introduce you to cabinet-making tools and show you how to use them effectively. You will test your new skills by creating your own wall hung mirror frame. This will be a very personal piece. Not only will you craft it by hand, using traditional techniques, but you will choose your own wood from a...

£20

Pyrography Workshop, New Forest, Hampshire

Hampshire - Next course on 20th April 2019

Draw and Write with Fire - Pyrography Workshop with Graham Turner Wood Turner. The event is part of Hampshire Open Studios, there will be two well known local artists Shaun Stevens, Tessa van Hasselt, and myself (Graham Turner) with a display of wood turning, so there is plenty to see. Open to all ages (8 - 80+), there are six places in each workshop. I also accept group bookings for a whole table for £75.00....

£220

Spoon Carving (Two Day)

Oxfordshire

PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE USING THE LINK ABOVE TO CHECK ON COURSE DATES AND AVAILABILITY Two day spoon carving course near Banbury, Oxfordshire Spoon carving is a traditional craft that most can learn. The tools required are few and affordable and the wood is usually available locally at little or no cost. The two-day spoon carving course I run is aimed at beginners or the self-taught wishing to improve their skills. Consequently, no previous experience...