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Wood working in the home - Build your own bench
Fantastic beginners course in woodworking for the home
Learn basic traditional woodwork by building your own chunky garden bench from local douglas fir with Hector and Cedric. The bench is 1600mm long 300mm width 450mm high. The timber is 50mm thick. It will be a Waney design (with a natural edge) seat with chunky legs with a mortise and tenon jointed stretcher.
Aims
Students should gain a good understanding of the fundamentals of bench construction, using traditional techniques. The tutor will guide the students to construct their bench, teaching the required skills to complete a bench to take home in one day.
The course would cover-
- Health and Safety
- Clean up and prepare timber using belt sanders, and hand tools
- Using a simple fixing to simply fix the legs to the base
- Fix a stretcher between the legs with a traditional with mortise and tenon joint.
- How to utilise the wood with minimal wood leftovers
- Surface treatment and finishing
Student preparation:
Students should wear clothing and footwear suitable for hands-on workshop work. Students should arrange transportation for their completed bench, if this is not possible, we can look at delivery prices, depending on your location.
