Introduction

Ideal for beginners, this course lets you craft a beautiful, functional cheeseboard from high-quality, furniture-grade timber that will last for generations. Our friendly instructors will guide you through each step. Whether you're curious about woodworking or looking for a unique gift idea, this class is a fantastic introduction to the world of woodworking. Unleash your creativity and take home a handcrafted masterpiece.

Workshop Content

- Design Concept and Drawing

We'll start our journey with the most challenging aspect of the day, deciding what shape to turn your board into. Participants start by sketching their unique cheese board designs, drawing inspiration from provided templates or creating their own patterns to express their creativity. 

- Cutting

Using a jigsaw under the guidance of instructors, You'll carefully cut out the precise shape of your cheeseboard from a prepared timber blank, focusing on taking your time and mastering control of this typically inaccurate power tool.

- Edge Refinement

After bulk of the work has been completed with the jigsaw, you'll refine the edges of your board using tools like rasps, spokeshaves and planes, ensuring smoothness and consistency, in preparation for a process called edge profile routing.

- Surface Pre-treatment

Attention to detail is crucial as participants prepare the surface of their cheese boards, ensuring they are smooth and ready for subsequent steps. Pre-treatment is important to remove heaver marks and blemishes from the timber machining process.  

- Profile Routing

By now you'll be falling in love with your efforts so far, and then we'll take things up a notch by adding a perfect routed profile to the perimeter of your board. This step elevates the overall feel, fit and finish of your (almost) finished work of art.

- Final Sanding and Finish Preparation

You'll meticulously re-sand every surface of your cheese board including a grain raising procedure we use on every single one of our furniture projects.  All this love shines bright when the first coat of our favourite, Gilly's Food Safe finish hit's the surface and highlights the beautiful grain.

- Applying Finish

Finally, You'll hand buff a coat or two of a food safe, natural oil into the grain of your board, ensuring every square inch receives the coverage it deserves to protect it and prepare it for use. We'll discuss subsequent maintenance coats and you'll receive a complimentary maintenance kit as part of attending the workshop.

Workshop Format

This workshop is a single session lasting 3-4 hours

Price & Inclusions

The price for this workshop is $239.00 per person

Included in the price:

• Tuition
• Facility access and provision
• Materials
• Tea, Coffee & Biscuits
• PPE required for class
• Trade price on purchases in our tool store

Tools & equipment we'll use

Including but not limited to:

• Layout tools
• Jigsaw
• Disc Sander
• Rasps/files
• Spokeshaves
• Plunge Router
• Clamps
• Random Orbital Sander
• Sanding Block
• Workbench

Important Information

- Our Booking Process

To register, visit our booking page, where any current dates will be shown at the top. If no dates appear, there are currently no scheduled times for this workshop. In this case, you may wish to complete the enquiry form below regarding future dates.

Once you've booked with us online, in-store, or over the phone, you'll receive a booking confirmation email. Please allow up to 12 hours for processing. You will always receive an immediate email confirmation with the invoice for your order. If you do not receive this invoice, your booking may have been unsuccessful, and you should contact us.

Once you have received the confirmation from us, please add the date(s) of your class to your calendar to avoid missing it. Additionally, you may be asked to complete an online induction prior to your class. If so, you will receive an email with instructions on how to complete this simple process via our website learning portal.

- Age Restriction

Please note that this class is exclusively open to individuals aged 18 and above,ensuring a safe, focused and enriching environment for all participants.

- Booking Terms & Conditions

Please consider our booking terms prior to booking. Due to our small class sizes and the nature of what we do, we are unable to offer refunds for bookings if you change your mind or simply can no longer attend. If you are unable to attend your booked workshop with us, we'd recommend that you gift your booking to someone else who is able to attend. 

Should an event cancellation occur, you will be offered a credit, refund or re-booking.​

- What To Bring

• Your own cup or travel mug to make use of our complimentary coffee or tea facilities. 
• Water bottle will keep you hydrated and you can refill it with our Puratap.
• Journal for taking notes

- What to wear

• Enclosed Shoes are mandatory to enter our workshop, you will flat out be denied entry should you arrive for your class and not have correct footwear with you.
• Appropriate Clothing must be worn, suitable for the workshop environment. If you have an event to attend after a class with us we'd recommend wearing some overalls. 
• Jewelry must be removed prior to using power tools and stationary machinery as per our Safe Operating Procedures.
• Long hair must be tied back prior to entering our workshop. Long hair is an entanglement risk.