John Lloyd Fine Furniture

Contact Name: John Lloyd

Address:
Bankside Farm
Ditchling Common
Burgess Hill
East Sussex
RH15 0SJ

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£590

French Polishing & Modern Hand Finishes in East Sussex

East Sussex - Next course on 19th August 2019

What you Will Learn: Preparing wood for finishing Colouring – using stains and chemicals Grain filling – various methods and materials Filling minor defects – various types of filler Polish – making shellac & wax polish Polishing – shellac “French polishing”, heat resistant systems, wax polish Using modern finshes, oils etc. Blending defects and repairs – cosmetic colouring systems

£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 5th August 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...

£250

Sharpening & Tuning Hand Tools

East Sussex - Next course on 3rd August 2019

What you will learn: Tuning • Flattening and fine tuning the castings and various components that make up any plane • Setting up a cutting gauge and if necessary upgrading the blade Sharpening • Grinding bevels using bench grinder and whetstone grinder • Grinding / honing angles • Flattening bench stones • Honing techniques with bench stones – freehand and using honing guides • Making and using a strop • Techniques for sharpening shaped blades...

£8850

The 16 Week Course - The Ultimate Fast-Track Fine Furniture Making Skills & Techniques Course. Train to Professional Standard in only 16 weeks.

East Sussex - Next course on 26th August 2019

This is the unique opportunity to acquire the critical skill-sets that are required to make exceptional furniture to a professional standard in the shortest time possible. Maximum Learning ~ Minimum Time ~ Affordable Price Although this course is perfect for the absolute beginner it is also completely suitable for the keen amateur or professional who has been working with wood for many years but who wants to raise their game to make high quality furniture....

£300

Wood Machining in East Sussex

East Sussex - Next course on 1st June 2019

The main elements covered for each machine will include safe working practices, adjusting/setting up, choice of blade & blade changing, jigs and dust extraction: Band-saw Dimensioning timber components Cutting dovetails, circles etc. Design & use of a point fence Cutting veneers Cutting tenons Table-saw with sliding table Dimensioning veneered board material using the scoring unit Cross cutting and cutting short lengths using the sliding table Removing a waney edge Cutting timber to dimension using the...

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