Wood Machining

Bruce Luckhurst

Course

In Ashford

£ 345 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Ashford

  • Duration

    3 Days

To gain knowledge and skills on wood machining. Suitable for students who own, or are contemplating the purchase of woodworking machinery and wish to produce accurately machined wooden components safely and economically.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Ashford (Kent)
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Little Surrenden Workshops Ashford Road, Bethersden, TN26 3BG

Start date

On request

About this course

Students registering for this course must have completed at least Cabinet Making Parts One and Two.

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Bruce Luckhurst

Bruce Luckhurst

Tutor

BRUCE LUCKHURST has made and restored furniture for over forty five years. He is a refreshingly original thinker who has a wide range and depth of experience. He sets demanding standards of himself and his students and has international recognition as one of the very best teachers of his craft. After working in his parents workshops for twelve years (fifth generation) he was offered a place in 1975 to study the conservation and restoration of antique furniture at West Dean College where he graduated with distinction. ...

Course programme

A Practical Introduction

General Course Content
Topic for each machine - HEALTH & SAFETY, MAINTENANCE, APPRAISAL, COST, SAFE OPERATION, TOOLING, JIGS, DUST EXTRACTION.

Machines:

  • Circular Saw: Ripping, cross-cutting, cutting shoulders, rebates and grooves, mitres, panel raising.
  • Radial Arm Saw: Repeat cross-cutting, mitres.
  • Planer/ Thicknesser: Planing timber that is bowed, cupped or in wind, surface planing, thicknessing.
  • Band Saw: Ripping, cross-cutting, cutting tenons, triangular sections, circles, making veneers and string-lines.
  • Chisel Morticer: Stopped, through and haunched mortices.
  • Spindle Moulder Making mouldings, grooves and rebates.
  • Biscuit Joiner: Carcase and frame construction.

Every student will have the opportunity to use each machine with supervision to saw and plane timber to size, make mortise and tenons, joint timber and run a moulding in order to make the components for a joint stool. If time allows, the components will be assembled.

Materials: Timber and manufactured board will be provided for this course and included in the course fee.

Additional information

Students per class: 6

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