• Antique Furniture Restoration

    5 Days

    Learn how to restore and repair antique furniture, reviving original patination and finishes.

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  • Bench Making

    5 Days

    Build and take away a cabinet maker’s workbench of a design that we use in our own woodworking workshop.

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  • Build a Boat – Initial Set-up

    5 Days

    Set up building frames and the backbone for a traditionally built clinker boat. Produce the stem, keel, hog and transom for a small dinghy and fit the components together to form the backbone. The course also covers the theory for setting up for glued, cold moulded, clinker, strip planked and carvel builds.

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  • Build A Paddleboard

    12 days

    Spend two weeks building your own hand-crafted timber paddleboard built over an internal “fishbone” frame. The board you will make is designed for general use, it has a beginner friendly form with good stability, but is fairly quick and suitable for surfing, yoga, and fishing.

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  • Dovetail Joints

    2 days

    Hand cut dovetail joints are often seen as a sign of quality in a piece of furniture; on this course you will spend two days learning the skills required to cut your own accurate dovetail joints.

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  • Green Wood Chair Making

    5 Days

    Learn the basic principles of green woodwork including cleaving and conversion of an ash log, as well as steam bending, drying, and construction.

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  • GRP Repairs

    5 Days

    Start with the basics of working safely with polyester-based glass reinforced plastic (GRP) and understand the functions of components (e.g. resin, catalyst, pigments). Tackle practical hands-on activities from gel coat repairs and colour matching to larger hull repairs requiring temporary moulds and formers.

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  • Introduction to Boat Building

    2 Days

    This introductory course looks at how boats are shaped and why, terminology, construction methods, materials, propulsion, and sails and rigs/rigging. This is a classroom-based course, but workshop walkabouts and strolls to the harbour and the gig shed mean legs are regulary stretched.

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  • Introduction to Woodworking

    2 Days

    An absolute beginner’s introduction to hand tools and materials used by furniture makers.

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