Tomorrow’s 3-day Foundational Course Part I

Tomorrow I will unlock the workshop door to host our three-day Foundational Course Part I.

What can that mean? Well, it means that a handfull of people will stand around my workbench at 9am and we will begin a conversation about our favourite subject which is wood, the tools we work it with and working the two elements together.

This woodworking course is one that I have taught for 17 years for hundreds of my fellow woodworking enthusiasts who have progressed to become highly competent woodworkers with some becoming furniture makers in their own right. I recall one man I know who came to this class a few years ago. He went home, started making furniture pieces to sell and, after a short while, only a few months, gave in his notice. He was a police officer in one of the metroplexes. It was a few years later that I met Ron again. I asked him how he was doing. “Great!” He smiled, “I just completed a commission for £5,000 sleigh bed. I remember Ron confiding in me that he had come to the three-day Foundational Course because he didn’t know whether he would go home after nights working as a police officer and he wanted to see if he could make a career change. He did.

Other woodworkers contact me and say that they are excited about their future in woodworking simply because the concepts of craftsmanship we teach create avenues of woodworking they never knew existed.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s hands-on workshop as I always do. They never disappoint me. Follow the blog posts to see what we get up to.