MAKE A VINTAGE SHELF

Bookable via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/make-a-vintage-shelf-3/ ⋆⋆⋆ Carpentry for beginners – make a beautiful Edwardian era shelf. Spend six evenings making a fabulous multi-jointed shelf unit, learning some classic and modern woodwork techniques along the way. This project based course takes its inspiration from an Edwardian woodwork instructional book ‘Carpentry for Beginners’. The book refers to it as a ‘Scullery shelf’, but if you are short on sculleries to put it, it will look lovely in any room. The shelf unit has an elegant appearance and contains lots of interesting woodwork details that will be a delight to learn. It offers plenty of opportunity to use traditional and vintage hand tools as well as modern power tools. The brackets are cut and curved with coping saws and spokeshaves, the shapes are fashioned with saws and chisels and then inserted into the top using ‘wedged through mortises’. The square holes will be cut by hand and the shelf unit when finished will be ready to hold pots and pans as suggested in the 1910 book, or anything you find useful. Perfect as a challenge for beginners with plenty of opportunity to learn about a wide variety of techniques. The use of all tools and materials is included. Suitable for absolute beginners. No prior experience is required for this course.