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  • Furniture School
    • Weekend Courses
      • Sharpening & Tuning Hand Tools
      • Cabinetmaking Fundamentals
      • Wood Machining
      • Making and Fitting a Dovetailed Drawer
    • 3-5 DAY COURSES by Skill
      • SKILLS WEEK – Sharpening & Essential Cabinet Making Hand Skills
      • JOINTS WEEK – Making a Table
      • DRAWER WEEKEND – Making and Fitting a Dovetailed Drawer
      • ANTIQUE FURNITURE RESTORATION TECHNIQUES
      • POLISHING WEEK – French Polishing & Modern Hand Finishes
      • VENEERING – Making a Games Board
      • LAMINATING – Making a Box with a Curved Lid
      • SHAPING A SEAT – Making a Bar Stool
      • FITTING LOCKS & HINGES – Making a Decorative Box
    • COURSES by Project
      • Project – Making and Fitting a Dovetailed Drawer
      • Project – Making a Table
      • Project – Making a Bar Stool
      • Project – Making a Decorative Box with Lift Out Tray
      • Project – Making a Danish Corded Stool
      • Project – Making a Games Board
      • Project – Making a Box with a Curved Lid
    • Information
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      • Booking Form – Short Courses
      • Terms & Conditions – Short Courses
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John Lloyd’s Blog

The Importance of “n+1” and why you need a Stealth Router

The Importance of “n+1” and why you need a Stealth Router

Apr 1, 2020

It might not seem like it when it’s happening, but it’s good to be challenged occasionally (or perhaps, not quite so occasionally!) It doesn’t really matter what form this challenge...

Jack of All Trades

Jack of All Trades

Apr 25, 2018

It might not seem like it when it’s happening, but it’s good to be challenged occasionally (or perhaps, not quite so occasionally!) It doesn’t really matter what form this challenge...

The Terrors of the Timber Yard!! – Part 2

The Terrors of the Timber Yard!! – Part 2

Nov 30, 2017

So, you need some timber and you’ve decided that you’re happy to ‘play the game’ at the timber yard (refer to my previous blog for guidance on rules of this...

The Terrors of the Timber Yard!!

The Terrors of the Timber Yard!!

Feb 9, 2017

These days I rather look forward to my visits to the timber yard, but that wasn’t always the case, for many years the timber procurement part of furniture making wasn’t...

DON’T PANIC!!

DON’T PANIC!!

Oct 27, 2016

There really isn’t any cause for alarm, I’m pretty certain this isn’t the end of woodworking as we know it, but there seems to be a bit of a revolution...

DOVETAILS………still relevant after all these years?

DOVETAILS………still relevant after all these years?

Aug 25, 2016

Surely the woodworking world has come up with a better way of joining bits of wood together to make boxes or drawers than with those rather quaint, old-fashioned dovetails?Well, there...

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