Overview: This course introduces you to the use of various woodworking machines, power tools and hand tools. Designed for beginners this course steps you through a variety of tools and basic techniques whilst building yourself a cheeseboard.

You will learn a variety of skills including:

• Preparing timber for joinery.
• Power tools: Mitre-saw, circular saw, router, sanders, thicknesser, planer.
• Hand tools: Squares, marking tools, hand planes, scrapers, and more.
• Finishing using food grade oils.

Finished Project: You take with you your finished cheeseboard.

Included: The base course costs includes the following:

• Instruction by Terry Fogarty.
• Use of all power and hand tools at the Ideal Tools Festool Workshop.
• Timber.
• All consumables including abrasives, oil, etc.

Timber: Timber is provided as part of the course.

Target Audience: This course is designed beginners.

Location and Instructor: The course is conducted at the Ideal Tools Festool Workshop (Williamstown VIC), Click here to read more about our workshop. The course is conducted by John Beckwith, an experienced furniture maker and from London.

Things to bring: Ensure you are wearing clothing suitable to working in a timber workshop environment. Personal protection equipment (ear-muffs, glasses) is available, but you may wish to bring your own.

Class size: Small - a maximum of 6 participants. Each participant has the use of their own workbench and set of hand-tools, with communal assembly spaces, communal powered tools and machinery, and additional communal hand tools.