The Brisbane School of fine Woodwork is pleased to announce a new, two-week full-time course on building a wall hanging cabinet. This piece will follow traditional joinery techniques, utilising hand cut dovetails in solid timber, hand fitted, hinged, floating panel doors (2) and a french cleat to keep your piece nicely secured on a wall. The cabinet will be fixed design, approximately 450mm (H) x 280mm (W) x 180mm (D). The cabinet will be another heirloom piece to be passed down from generation to generation. Whilst this is an excellent transition piece between the Month Long Basics Course and the Month Long Cabinet on Stand Course, the Month Long Basics Course is not a prerequisite course. As with most of our courses, class size is limited to four students. All students have access to their own bench and fully equiped tool board. The School provides beautiful furniture grade timber for the project. There is an extensive library including books on technique and design. The School’s machine shop is equiped with all of the necessary machinery to run a professional furniture making practice. 

The School is located just 2 km from Samford Village and 25km’s from Brisbane. The School has limited capacity for accommodation, and can offer a room at $300 per week on first come first served basis.

Cost: $3000.00

Dates: 27/11/23 – 8/12/23 (weekends excluded)
Time: 9am – 5:00pm

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What to Bring:
– Lunch and snacks (the School provides light refreshments – coffee and tea)
– P2 dust mask
– 2mm clutch pencil with 2B leads
– notepad and camera

These five day workshops will concentrate on basic hand skills, marking out, material preparation, joint cutting and sharpening. There is a small amount of machine usage.

The workshop is designed as a good introduction for those interested in pursuing woodworking as a serious hobby. The School occasionally co-ordinates a separate Six-Day Hall Table or Coffee Table Workshop in the week following some of the week-long Basics classes as a natural progression, should you decide to continue on.

Materials, tools, and refreshments provided.

Cost: $1,700.00 for each of the Basics Workshops.

Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm

Early October Dates: 2/10/23 – 6/10/23

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Mid October Dates: 16/10/23 – 20/10/23

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The Hall Table and Coffee Table Workshops are six-day courses. Whilst a natural progression from the Basics Workshop, it is not necessary for students to have completed The Basics Workshop before doing the Hall Table or Coffee Table Workshops. We will be building tables in a simple, elegant design influenced by the Shaker movement. Emphasis will be on quality of construction and finish. The students will be introduced to machinery in this workshop as well as developing and honing their hand skills.

Materials, tools, and refreshments provided.

Cost: $2,000.00 for either of the Hall Table or Coffee Table Workshops.

Early October Dates: 9/10/23 – 14/10/23 (6 days)

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Late October Dates: 23/10/23 – 28/10/23 (6 days)

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The Basics Foundation Course is aimed at both the beginner student looking to obtain a strong grounding in woodwork and the more experienced woodworker looking to bolster their skills. This is an immersion course for one month. We explore the fundamentals of woodworking from timber selection to marking out and cutting joints, to correct tool usage, sharpening and tuning hand tools, safe machinery use and good workshop practice. This is a project based course and students can expect to make some beautiful items that will be cherished for life. The accumulation of skills throughout the month will allow students to begin working with more confidence from home, or any workshop.

This course is also a great stepping stone for the Cabinet on Stand Course.

The class size is limited to four students. Each student will have their own bench and tool board with quality hand tools during the month. Furniture grade materials will be supplied, as will safety visors and ear protection. The School has an extensive reference library including books on technique and design. The machine shop is equipped with all machinery necessary to run a professional furniture making practice.

The School is located just 2km from Samford Village and 25km from Brisbane.

Cost: $4,500.00

Spring Dates: 30/10/23 – 24/11/23 (weekends excluded)
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm

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Summer Dates: 05/02/24 – 01/03/24 (weekends excluded)
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm

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What to Bring:
– Lunch and snacks (the School provides light refreshments – coffee and tea)
– P2 dust mask
– 2mm clutch pencil with 2B leads
– notepad and camera

The Cabinet on Stand Course is aimed at giving the intermediate student an achievable project that will become an heirloom piece. To some, a beautifully crafted cabinet is regarded as the pinnacle of their woodworking achievements.

We will be concentrating on an elegant, timeless design utilising a combination of both traditional and modern techniques. The cabinet will incorporate a hand cut, hand fitted dovetail drawer and hinged doors with solid floating panels. It has been designed to be easily transportable upon completion.

The class size is limited to four students. Each student will have their own bench and tool board with quality hand tools during the month. Furniture grade materials will be supplied, as will safety visors and ear protection. The School has an extensive reference library including books on technique and design. The machine shop is equipped with all machinery necessary to run a professional furniture making practice.

The School is located just 2km from Samford Village and 25km from Brisbane.

Cost: $4,900.00

Autumn Dates: 04/03/24 – 29/03/24 (weekends excluded)
Time: 9am – 5:00pm

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What to Bring:
– Lunch and snacks (the School provides light refreshments – coffee and tea)
– P2 dust mask
– 2mm clutch pencil with 2B leads
– notepad and camera

These classes will, over time, take students from a zero knowledge base to a strong competency level in the use of their hand tools, marking out procedures, joint cutting, machine use and finishing, via a series of projects set by the School. The projects are simple in nature but exacting in execution and will help develop the student’s appreciation for quality work. The rate of learning will depend on the frequency of attendance.

The casual classes typically run on Saturdays in the form of the Casual 6 Day Block. With prior arrangement and with at least two students, the School occasionally conducts classes on Sundays.

Casual 6 day block classes
Students can choose to purchase a 6 day block to use at their leisure on Saturdays (and occasionally on Sundays with a minimum of two Students). The only requirement is that Students have made a prior booking. Class size is limited to four Students.

Cost: $1,500 per block of six one-day lessons

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One-on-One
With prior arrangement, The Brisbane School of Fine Woodwork is happy to conduct One-on-One classes.

Cost: $200 per hour

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