Introduction to Furniture Making

Join Gray Balmer for this two day course for beginners. Gray will introduce you to the process of furniture making including:

• Introduction to safety on the standing machines
• Introduction to the use and care of hand tools
• Accurate mark out
• Layout of tools
• Use of saws, hand planes, chisels
• Practice joinery
• Sharpening
• Plans and Drawings
• Preparation for the purchase of materials
• Timber selection

This is a stand alone course where you learn the fundamentals required to start furniture making. It is not a project based course but will give you a good grounding if you are intending to join a MSFW Tutor Group.

No previous experience required.

Gray BALMER

• Tutor Group Tutor (Mon-Fri evenings & Fri mornings)
• Instructor for Technical Workshops & Introduction to Furniture Making

Gray has been designing and making furniture since the early 1990s.

Gray is the Senior Tutor at Melbourne School of Fine Woodworking. Beginning in 1993, he has been teaching furniture design/making, wood finishing, router techniques, tool sharpening and plane tuning, with 9 years at Coles School of Woodcraft and since 2002 at Melbourne School of Fine Woodworking.