Essential Tools for Woodworkers Course

Learn to make a mallet, marking gauge, dovetail marker and a double bevel marking knife.


Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
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53k followers

3 x 8 hours Class size 1 to 8 guests     $930


Melbourne
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Craft
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Woodworking
The Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking is excited to offer this 3-day Essential Tools for Woodworking course. For this course, you will learn how to make a mallet, marking gauge, dovetail marker, and a double bevel marking knife. These four tools represent an essential kit for anyone interested in fine woodworking.
The design of the mallet and marking gauge has been borrowed from the North Bennet Street School (Boston, USA) and is a compulsory component of their 2-year full-time program. The dovetail marker and the double bevel marking knife have been designed by Alastair Boell of the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking.
All four tools are critical in the production of beautiful handmade woodworking projects. Each tool offers a unique set of skills that you will be guided through. For example, the mallet requires an understanding of wood technology, which will be explained to you thoroughly. This will be followed by an extremely practical way of gluing up your laminated mallet and turning it on the lathe. You will be shown how to proficiently use several turning tools, including calipers, roughing out gouge, parting tool, and the spindle gouge. The length and weight of your mallet will be decided by you.
All the tools will be made from salvaged timbers from in and around Melbourne, and subject to availability, for the dovetail marker and double bevel marking knife, we will be able to use some exotic Australian desert species.
For any woodworking enthusiasts or anyone interested in pursuing woodworking, these four tools are a 'must-have'! Apart from this, the course also gives you a great insight into general tool making, and we are sure it will give you the confidence to make more of your own tools in the future.
Knowledge required
Beginners welcome.
 
What you'll get
A mallet, marking gauge, dovetail marker, and a double bevel marking knife. These four tools represent an essential kit for anyone interested in fine woodworking.
 
What to bring
Wear comfortable clothing. Steel-capped boots are recommended.
 
Session repeats

This class series runs over 3 consecutive days.

Location

Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking, 14 Cottage St, Blackburn VIC

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Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking

5.0 (5)
53k followers

The Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking (The Guild) was founded by Alastair Boell in 2007. After graduating from the world-renowned North Bennet Street School, Boston, USA, Alastair felt that there was a great need in Australia for an educational facility that focuses on traditional skills.
The Guild is conveniently located in Blackburn and provides three different course formats:
  • Our open courses offer ongoing morning, afternoon and evening woodworking classes for students of any level to undertake a project of their own desire.
  • Our weekly project-based courses are geared towards beginners or anyone interested in a more structured class where everyone works on the same project once a week and where the start and finish dates are set.
  • Our intensive project-based courses are for those who would like to immerse themselves in a project and have it completed in the shortest possible time. These courses range from a one-day course to an eight-day course.
Our student-teacher ratios are very low which enables each student to get some one-on-one instruction time from our highly qualified instructors.
Our facilities include a fully equipped machine room, four classrooms with workbenches, numerous hand tools, hardware, finishing products and a variety of exotic salvaged timbers. We also offer onsite milling with our own mill and an in-house workshop milling service. For those interested in ‘Commission’ work, we have a gifted community of furniture designers/makers on the call.
The Guild is committed to preserving and advancing craft traditions in furniture making. We are also committed to promoting greater awareness and appreciation of craftsmanship. In our classes, we emphasise the skilful use of hand tools and power equipment and informed use of appropriate materials and proportions.
We are passionate about what we do and want to share information, ideas and skills with our extended woodworking community.
We promise to do our very best to provide you with endless opportunities in a stimulating and supportive community. We invite you to take your place at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking!

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