furniture school
Next course: TBC. New for 2025! We’re delighted to offer a Marquetry weekend course taught by Audrey Fasquelle, a highly experienced craftsperson and recognised as a Master FurnitureMaker for her marquetry work by the Furniture Makers Company.
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Next courses: 24th, 25th & 26th Oct. 2025.
Learn how to make a wooden plane. This will involve skills such as band-sawing, routing, drilling, shaping with a spokeshave, sanding and finishing. A 3 day course. Cost: £400. Tutor: Theo Cook.
Next course: Date TBC.
Experience these amazing techniques and take your work to a different level! As laminating is more accurate than steam bending, it is ideal for combining sculptural work with fine cabinet making.
Cost: £295. Tutor: Marc Fish.
Next courses: 2025 Dates TBC.
This course provides hands-on experience of the sophisticated techniques used in the composites industry.
Cost £480. Tutor: Theo Cook.
Next course: 2025 dates TBC.
This three day course takes you through completing a three-legged stool. Using through-tenoned construction (now known as “staked”construction) is a skill worth learning for any furniture maker. Three legs instead of four means the stool will never wobble, no matter what floor it’s sitting on, the mortise layout is simple, and, of course, there’s one less leg to make!
Cost: £295. Tutor: Derek Jones.
Next course: TBA.
This course is taught by expert maker Derek Jones. The key principles for building a cricket table are simplicity, necessity and ingenuity. Using just two types of joint it’s possible to create a robust structure from almost any species of wood that can be used to make a variety of different pieces of furniture.