Intermediate & Advanced Furniture & Cabinetmaking Course (4 to 12 Weeks)

If you already have some woodwork skills (either as an amateur furniture-maker or a professional carpenter-joiner) I’m able to offer advanced bespoke furniture and cabinet-making courses designed to suit your particular aims, to fit in with your own availability and time available – these can last between 4 and 12 weeks.

A typical advanced course will take 6-8 weeks depending on your existing speed and skills-set. The first week is spent fine-tuning your tools, bringing your basic hand-making skills up to the requisite standard, and introducing the safe use of workshop machinery.

The bulk of the course is then spent designing and making of a high-quality cabinet, through which you will learn and improve upon a wide range of high-quality joinery, cabinetwork, veneering, drawer- and door-making, laminating, shaping and finishing skills.

An essential element of all the advanced course is the inclusion of design work from simple concept sketches through to fully-resolved scale drawings. This gives students practice in professional and creative drawing, and also an understanding in the importance of presenting and costing design proposals for their own clients.

Finally, within the duration of the whole course, I’m able to advise students in a variety of aspects of professional furnituremaking, from marketing through to client-relations.

See a detailed student’s testimonial of his experience of an advanced course in my workshop.

Introduction to Furnituremaking Course (2 wks)

If you are interested in seeing what furniture-making is like but haven’t yet the time to undertake full training, then this introductory ‘taster’ course is for you.

In two weeks I cannot turn you into a fully-fledged craftsman, but I can introduce you to hardwood furnituremaking, teach you some proper woodworking skills and give you a very real insight into the sort of working life a furnituremaker leads.

Using workshop hand-tools and machinery, with all materials provided, you will make a simple well-constructed piece of furniture (a stool or a box) under my direct tuition, which will be yours to keep.

If you enjoy the experience and would like to undertake more extensive training, then your best option would be to join the full 45 week course. (The alternative, for those unable to take a whole year out from existing commitments, is to come back for additional short-courses, so that you can extend your woodworking skills and develop your design and making expertise over time.)

See the Contact page to email or telephone me with your enquiry.