Welcome to my website. After thirty years of furniture making and teaching I am starting to think about hanging up my tools. To this end I am now offering a much reduced course program. I particularly enjoy introducing newcomers to the joy of woodwork so I will concentrate on teaching my beginners four day woodwork course.

For many years I have been filming instructional videos to post on Youtube, gaining over 13,000 subscribers and over 2m views. I think they are a useful resource, especially for new woodworkers. So the  courses I am no longer  teaching remain on the website but with links to relevant videos which I think may be helpful. There is also a new video page entitled Free Online Woodwork Instruction where I have organised the videos into categories.

The 4 day beginners woodwork courses all take place at my well- equipped workshop in the Cornmill near the centre of Ilkley.  The workshop is adjacent to Ilkley railway station and there are plenty of accommodation and ‘eating out’ options for those from afar – I regularly have students from as far away as Kent and Scotland and also from abroad, recently from Singapore and The Netherlands.

The course tend to get booked up well in advance, so please don’t leave it until the last minute. If you would like more details or advice, just get in touch and I will be happy to advise you. 

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If you’re new to woodwork, why not join me and three other students to embark on a journey into furniture making  on my four day beginners course. The first day is devoted entirely to hand working, we flatten and dimension a rough sawn board with a hand plane and go on to cut a mortice and tenon joint.  Hopefully you will have been so impressed at how sharp the workshop tools are and how much easier woowork can be if the tools are sharp that you will want to know a bit more about sharpening. So the second day concentrates on sharpening and maintenance of chisels and planes. In the last two days you will put your new furniture making skills to use to make an oak table, using both hand and power tool techniques.

Similar topics were covered in my two day weekend courses  tool sharpening and maintenance weekend and basic jointing weekend.

My improvers or advanced courses were designed for those who wanted to go beyond the basic woodworking skills . The most popular being make your own workbench and router skills

The veneering and laminating and chair making courses were for those wanting an extreme woodworking challenge.

The poverty ridden slums of Kampala in Uganda is the location for a carpentry training centre for young people trying to survive there. The centre is run by Kids Club Kampala, a charity that I am proud to support.

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