Grafe, Jill Beute Koverman, Maile Pingel, Emily ZaidenĬopyright © 2007 by Craft in America, Inc. We promise to do our very best to provide you with endless opportunities in a stimulating and supportive community.Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects bookĬontributions by Mark Coir, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Jeannine Falino, Steven L. We are passionate about what we do and want to share information, ideas and skills with our extended woodworking community. In our classes, we emphasise the skilful use of hand tools and power equipment and informed use of appropriate materials and proportions. We are also committed to promoting greater awareness and appreciation of craftsmanship. The Guild is committed to preserving and advancing craft traditions in furniture making. For those interested in ‘Commission’ work, we have a gifted community of furniture designers/makers on the call. We also offer onsite milling with our own mill and an in-house workshop milling service. 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. Our student-teacher ratios are very low which enables each student to get some one-on-one instruction time from our highly qualified instructors. These courses range from a one-day course to an eight-day course. 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.
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 open courses offer ongoing morning, afternoon and evening woodworking classes for students of any level to undertake a project of their own desire.The Guild is conveniently located in Blackburn and provides three different course formats: 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 Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking (The Guild) was founded by Alastair Boell in 2007. This course is a great introduction to this area of woodworking and you will be able to complete it with your own beautiful piece of furniture. These woodworking classes are ideal for beginners seeking the Windsor chair experience without the intensity of a six-day course. Over three days, you will learn the techniques associated with this iconic style. This is somewhat difficult to describe but we're sure if you sat on one, you would readily agree! When sitting down on a Perch, you have this novel sensation of being suspended somewhere between a standing position and a sitting position. The Perch is a unique three-legged stool that forces you to sit upright due to its unusually angled seat.
Under the guidance of Jon Grant, you will learn how to make your own perch stool. You'll need to wait for the government to announce the re-opening date for unvaccinated peopleīegin your journey into the world of Windsor chairmaking with this fun Melbourne course. If you're fully COVID-19 vaccinated, you can attend this class anytime