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Joinery Intensive Course
This Joinery Intensive Course offers more than skill demonstrations, providing a detailed walkthrough of joinery processes, emphasizing the importance of sizes, proportions, and sequence with historical insights and practical examples. It shares tips from Japanese craftsmen adaptable to personal projects, ensuring a valuable learning and creating experience, regardless of your current project involvement.
All About Japanese Woodworking Tools Course
This course highlights the essential role of tools in quality craftsmanship, focusing on the proper tuning of major woodworking tools—saws, chisels, and planes. It covers tool types, usage, and maintenance, based on expert teachings that 80% of work quality depends on tools, advocating for their optimal tuning to enhance craftsmanship.
Hand Sharpening Course
The Hand Sharpening course teaches essential techniques for properly sharpening chisel and plane blades, emphasizing the importance of flattening the blade's back before addressing the bevel. It covers suitable sharpening stones, ideal angles, and frequency, highlighting the potential cost of mistakes with expensive tools. This expert-led course is designed to instill a crucial, lifelong sharpening skill.
Skill Building Projects (Plans Included)
Early in my apprenticeship, I struggled with slow progress compared to my peers. My master recommended a few simple projects to enhance my basic hand tool skills. After dedicating several weeks to these projects in the empty workshop, I significantly improved and could craft various items with ease.
If you're facing similar challenges, these five straightforward projects can help you develop crucial skills for manual woodworking and boost your confidence.
Project Pack
(Plans Included)
Ready to unlock your woodworking potential? Our Project Pack equips you with the essential skills to craft almost anything using hand tools alone. As you advance, you'll also develop an intuitive understanding of timber characteristics and wood grain flow. This knowledge enhances your proficiency with machines and power tools, distinguishing you as a true master of woodworking.
Don't wait—sign up now and unleash your inner craftsman!
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