Course: Make a Vintage Shelf
Duration: 6 Weeks / Tuesdays from 6pm – 9pm. See below for individual start dates.
Cost: £450 (includes VAT)
Suitable for: Absolute beginners. No prior experience is required for this course.
Key tools: Saws, spokeshaves, marking gauges, try squares, chisels, planes.
Learning: Basic joints used in household woodwork. Knowledge of soft woods/introduction to joinery.
Carpentry for beginners – make a beautiful Edwardian era shelf.
Spend six evenings making a fabulous multi-jointed shelf unit, learning some classic and modern woodwork techniques along the way.
This project based course takes its inspiration from an Edwardian woodwork instructional book ‘Carpentry for Beginners’. The book refers to it as a ‘Scullery shelf’, but if you are short on sculleries to put it, it will look lovely in any room.
The shelf unit has an elegant appearance and contains lots of interesting woodwork details that will be a delight to learn. It offers plenty of opportunity to use traditional and vintage hand tools as well as modern power tools.
The brackets are cut and curved with coping saws and spokeshaves, the shapes are fashioned with saws and chisels and then inserted into the top using ‘wedged through mortises’.
The square holes will be cut by hand and the shelf unit when finished will be ready to hold pots and pans as suggested in the 1910 book, or anything you find useful.
Perfect as a challenge for beginners with plenty of opportunity to learn about a wide variety of techniques.
The use of all tools and materials is included.
Geoff Davison
General Information
You will receive a courtesy reminder by email 1-2 days before the workshop/course begins.
Refreshments
Coffee, tea and biscuits are included in the course fee, but you will need to bring lunch with you or visit a nearby venue to purchase food.
Access
If you have any specific access or special needs, please contact us confidentially in advance by email info@thegoodlifecentre.co.uk. There is a small step to the entrance, and the toilet is on the ground floor.
Refunds and cancellations
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Disclaimer
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