Arranging regular on-site visits can ensure small damages and losses are reinstated or consolidated quickly. This ensures those pieces do not get lost or damaged further in a 'bit box' and also allows the conservator to identify the cause of the deterioration and to then prevent further losses.
We can be a flexible and professional addition to your collection care strategy and team.
In addition to his furniture related qualifications/experience, Bill has a Master Degree in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and we are also able to manage or collaborate on larger conservation projects.
There are many benefits of this method:
Arranging a regular schedule of, for example, one conservator for 1 day per month or a team each quarter allows easier budget planning. We can set up a schedule to suit your requirements and review it regularly.
Risk to the collection can be reduced in a number of ways:
These courses are covering the basics to give the foundation skills and let you try the craft
1 day course covering basic tool kit & techniques and you will cut a joint. Private tuition available, please contact us.
1 day course covering the approach to restoration, materials and techniques. Private tuition available, please contact us.
After completing the Introductory course you can arrange to do a follow up days, or regularly so that you can focus on particular items of furniture and skills. We have a number of people who attend regularly throughout the year. These are group courses and normally a 2 day course to allow an overnight for clamping/gluing up or other processes to dry/cure.
5 day course where you will use many techniques to make a Welsh Stick type chair from oak and ash.
Please see the Chair Making Course page for further details.
5 day course where you will learn to make a traditional tool chest, you will get the main carcass and lid completed and this will set you on your way to completing the project at home.
Please see the Tool Chest course page for further details.
Spend two days making a three legged stool. Learn new skills and use new tools. You will learn many new skills and take away a handmade stool. Techniques covered will be sawing, planing, basic wood turning, tapered tenons to name a few.
Make a pair of saw benches for your workshop. Mine are used regularly, see my Instagram posts. They look great and are perfect for sawing on or sitting for a coffee. An ideal addition to your workshop space. The skills used also transfer to stool and chair making, so the learning is great.
Techniques include, sawing, planing, basic wood turning, tapered wedged tenons, to name but a few.
Have you attended the Introductory course or are you an intermediate woodworker who wants to improve your hand-tool skills and joints?
This 2 1/2 day course offers you the chance to hone your skills by making a dovetailed box.
These can be box making, make a stool, tool sharpening, focusing on dovetailing, make a workbench, make a pair of saw horses and most aspects off the craft. If you have an idea or a project, then contact Bill.
£345
Make a pair of saw benches for your workshop. Mine are used regularly, see my Instagram posts. They look great and are perfect for sawing on...
£345
£325
After completing the Introductory course you can arrange to do a follow up day, or attend more regularly so that you can focus on particular...
£325
£325
30th - 31st March - further dates will be added
£325
£375
Have you attended the Introductory course or are you an intermediate woodworker who wants to improve your hand-tool skills and joints?
This 2...
£375
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A one-off day or regular days to make a project and/or develop specific skills & knowledge
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Cutting a halving joint on an Introduction to woodwork day
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