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Woodwork for Beginners – Level 1
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Eco Upholstery for Beginners Level 1 – The Stool
£120.00 Choose your course
Pallet Wood Workshop
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Upholstered Furniture – The Storage Footstool
£245.00 – £275.00 Choose your course
Woodwork for Beginners – Level 2
£180.00 Choose your course
Eco Upholstery for Beginners Level 2 – The Chair
£280.00 Choose your course
DIY for Beginners
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Upholstered Furniture – The Armchair
£530.00 Choose your course
Woodwork Level 3 – Project Classes
£140.00 Choose your course
Eco Upholstery Level 3 – Furniture Upcycling
£150.00 Choose your course
Tool Maintenance & Sharpening
£67.50 Choose your course
Woodwork Joinery for Beginners Level 1 & 2 – Summer School
£635.00 Choose your course
Extra Woodwork Class
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A creative space for making & learning new skills. Courses in woodworking, upholstery, DIY and more. For beginners or the more seasoned maker alike.

B U T T O N S ! Our ‘Upholstered Furniture Level

B U T T O N S !
Our ‘Upholstered Furniture Level 1 - Footstool’ course will teach you the basic techniques of modern woodwork and upholstery, including beautiful looking deep buttoning and how to make the wooden frame from sustainably sourced european steamed beech wood, all resulting in a fabulous footstool.
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Our Tuesday daytime or evening course places are now available to book along with our popular ‘Upholstered Furniture Level 2 - The Armchair’ course. Visit our website for more details, start dates and times.
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W O O D W O R K ! Congratulations to Brett for doi

W O O D W O R K !
Congratulations to Brett for doing such a great job on his toolbox. He’s learnt how to use chisels, planes, saws, gauges and squares in making his fab toolboxes. ⠀
If you’d like to make a toolbox just like this by using traditional hand tools and joinery techniques, you can pick from our daytime or evening courses.
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Take a look at our website for Woodwork for Beginners courses starting in March, April, May, June, July and August for our 10 day Level 1 & 2 Summer School.
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Places book up fast so don’t delay, book your place today!
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W O O D W O R K ! Our Beginners woodworking course

W O O D W O R K !
Our Beginners woodworking courses are spilt into 2 Levels over which you’ll learn a variety of traditional joinery techniques.
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In Level 1 you’ll make a famous Makershed toolbox during which we’ll teach you how to to mark out a joint, saw straight and square, chisel a rebate and use a variety of planes including block, plough and smoothing types effectively.
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In Level 2 you’ll make a softwood cabinet and learn about housing, mortice and tenon, dovetail joints and dowels as well as how to assemble glue and cramp projects together. Students complete a module in just 4 weeks during our daytime classes or 8 weeks in the evenings.
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All you have to do is visit our website to choose & book your start date and you’ll soon be sawing, chiselling and dovetailing away!
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W E E K E N D S ! Did you know as well as our Thur

W E E K E N D S !
Did you know as well as our Thursday & Friday daytimes classes you can also take part in our Woodwork for Beginners classes at the weekend. We run our popular ‘2 weekends’ courses for Levels 1 & 2 at regular intervals during the year. March is now fully booked but there are spaces are still available for weekends in May & July. Visit our website for full details.
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U P H O L S T E R Y ! Happy Monday everyone! We ho

U P H O L S T E R Y !
Happy Monday everyone! We hope you had a great weekend and storm Ciara didn’t spoil your activities too much. So talking of activities there is still ONE place left to book on our Level 1 Eco Upholstery for Beginners daytime course starting 25th February. If you want to learn to web, pad and cover a funky stool by using traditional upholstery tools and materials. The course length is 2 weekly daytime classes or 4 weekly evening classes. You can book now for the Tuesday daytime place starting in February, Tuesday evenings starting in April or book onto a single weekend course in April or May. Visit our website for more details.
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S A F E T Y F I R S T ! We love this picture of a

S A F E T Y F I R S T !
We love this picture of a Beginners Woodwork Level 2 Cabinet on it’s way home, it really made us smile. Have a great weekend everyone!
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W O O D W O R K ! Hurray, this wonderful bunch of

W O O D W O R K !
Hurray, this wonderful bunch of daytime students now join the ranks of those who have an amazing Makershed toolbox.
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If you’d like to learn some traditional woodworking skills using hand tools by making a toolbox just like these, you can now choose from daytime or evening Level 1 Beginners Woodworking courses. Courses run on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays or you can sign up for our popular ‘2 weekends’ course. Visit our website for details and get making!
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S H A R P E N I N G ! Total awesomeness, that’s

S H A R P E N I N G !
Total awesomeness, that’s good to hear. Thanks Nat.
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W H A T T H E ? Wait a minute, what is that?! A p

W H A T T H E ?
Wait a minute, what is that?! A power tool!!! Yes, okay sometimes we do let our students do things the ‘quick’ way, especially when making an upholstered footstool because it leaves more time to spend on the beautiful deep buttoning. Tuesday daytime or evening course places are now available to book for our ‘Upholstered Furniture Level 1 - Footstool’ course which teaches you the basic techniques of modern woodwork and upholstery resulting in a fabulous footstool with hidden storage. Visit our website for more details, start dates and times.
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#themakershedbristol #stpaulslearningcentre #southwest #bristol #courses #tuition #lessons #skills #learn #make #beginners #woodwork #hardwood #joinery #storage #upholstery #deepbutton #footstool #newfor2020

W E E K E N D S ! We’ve had two fabulous consecu

W E E K E N D S !
We’ve had two fabulous consecutive weekends here in The Makershed, our students have been busy in the workshop making modules from our Level 2 woodworking course. Well done to Debbie for finishing module C ‘the Door’ of her cabinet, it looks fantastic all finished. And well done to Stefan, Mike and David for doing such excellent jobs on module A ‘the Case’. We’ll be seeing those guys back in the workshop soon to learn how to chisel dovetails for their Module B Drawers! Check our website for the next ‘2 weekends’ course dates.
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W O O D W O R K ! Ah, brilliant - oh how we love a

W O O D W O R K !
Ah, brilliant - oh how we love a finished toolbox photo! Well done to Max our Level 1 woodwork student for doing such a great job. He’s learnt how to use chisels, planes, saws, gauges and squares in making his fab toolboxes. If you’d like to make a toolbox just like this by using traditional hand tools and joinery techniques, you can pick from our daytime or evening courses. Take a look at our website for woodwork for beginners courses starting in 2020 including our 10 day Summer School in July/August (Level 1&2). Places book up fast so don’t delay, book your place today!
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#themakershedbristol #stpaulslearningcentre #southwest #bristol #courses #tuition #lessons #skills #learn #measure #mark #chisel #saw #plane #sand #finish #danishoil #handtools #beginners #woodwork #toolbox

P R O J E C T S ! How good is this prototype looki

P R O J E C T S !
How good is this prototype looking?! This is the work of our student Calum, who making a clock case for his Level 3 project. He’s been busy making this design prototype from pine and once it’s complete he is then going to make the final clock case from a (yet to be chosen) hardwood.
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After completing levels 1 & 2 of our Woodwork for Beginners course, our students can move on to Level 3 Projects where we help with project design, timber sourcing, joinery plans and then give students technical guidance as they complete their own bespoke project.
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P A L L E T W O O D ! Due to popular demand we’v

P A L L E T W O O D !
Due to popular demand we’ve added two new pallet wood workshop weekends to our 2020 schedule for April and June. Whatever you decide to make in our workshop we’ll help you plan a specific design, draw plans, make cutting lists and learn how to use hand tools to build your project using traditional joinery techniques. You can now visit our website to book your place for 2020 there are spaces left for dates in April, June and August so there’s no excuse not to sign up today.
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L O C A T I O N ! Where are we and how can you get

L O C A T I O N !
Where are we and how can you get here? The Makershed is based in the St. Pauls Learning Centre in the vibrant St. Pauls area of central Bristol, we encourage the use of public transport and arriving by foot/on a bike. We are a 15 minute walk from the bus station and a 25 minute walk from Temple Meads train station. The number 5 bus Denbigh Street stop is the closet to us. If you’re cycling there’s plenty of bike stands to lock your bike safely right outside the centres cafe doors.
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W O O D W O R K ! As part of our Level 2 Woodwork

W O O D W O R K !
As part of our Level 2 Woodwork for Beginners course, students make a drawer with dovetail joints to fit their own hand made cabinets. The tails on the sides of the drawer are hand sawn and chiselled before the pins and socket on the back are then marked out, sawn and chiselled accurately and squarely for a precise fit with the tails. This process always takes patience and lots of minor adjustments, but once a they fit the result is always VERY satisfying! Would you like to learn how to hand make a dovetail joint, then visit our website and sign up today!
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P R O J E CT S ! Doesn’t this bridal joint look

P R O J E CT S !
Doesn’t this bridal joint look fantastic. These lovely pieces of walnut are part of a leg for a TV table project that our student Warwick is making for his home during our Level 3 Projects Classes. And judging by his progress so far it’s going to be fabulous!
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After completing levels 1 & 2 of our Woodwork for Beginners course, our students can move on to Level 3 Projects where we help with project design, timber sourcing, joinery plans and then give students technical guidance as they complete their own bespoke project. And they can make what ever they like…. as long as it fits through our door!!
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P A L L E T W O O D ! What a great idea. Massive t

P A L L E T W O O D !
What a great idea. Massive thanks to Monica for sending us this fabulous picture of her mug organiser in situ at home. Made here in The Makershed during our weekend pallet wood workshop, she learnt how to plan her design and use woodworking hand tools along with a few basic joinery techniques to build it. Doesn’t the result look amazing!
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D I Y ! The best DIY course review in the world ri

D I Y !
The best DIY course review in the world right now. .
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S H A R P E N I N G ! Our one day Tool Maintenance

S H A R P E N I N G !
Our one day Tool Maintenance & Sharpening course in February is now fully booked, but we are now taking bookings for places on Monday 20th April and Monday 29th June. You’ll be guided in how to keep your planes, chisels and sharpeners in good working order and you’ll also get to try out a variety of sharpening equipment and techniques. Feel free to bring along your own hand tools for sharpening or we’ll show you how to do it on a few we have here. Visit our website for more information.
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W E E K E N D S ! Well done everyone. This lovely

W E E K E N D S !
Well done everyone. This lovely lot have been busy for the last ‘2 weekends’ taking part in our woodworking for beginners course for Level 1 (The Toolbox) here at The Makershed. If you’re a current student looking to book onto Level 2 to complete module A, B or C of the Cabinet then it’s good news because there are still a few spaces to book for the ‘2 weekends’ Level 2 course starting next weekend and continuing on 1st & 2nd February. Visit our website to grab your spot!
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P A L L E T W O O D ! What would you make from rec

P A L L E T W O O D !
What would you make from reclaimed pallet wood? Whatever you decide to make in our workshop, our fabulous tutor Luke Murray we’ll help you plan a specific design, draw plans, make cutting lists and learn how to use hand tools to build your project using traditional joinery techniques. Our February weekend workshop is now fully booked but there’s a few spaces left for April, June and August left too, but be quick as they book up fast!
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P R O J E C T S ! Thanks to Cassy for this picture

P R O J E C T S !
Thanks to Cassy for this picture of the garden sculptures she made for her parents for Christmas, they look absolutely fantastic in situ!
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Makershed students like Cassy here who have completed our woodwork courses levels 1, 2 & 3, can now rent a bench in our workshop on a Wednesday daytime if they feel confident to start woodworking independently (with a tutor on hand for advice if needed). These sessions are not available to purchase through the website so please send us an email to find out how to book your bench space.
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A R M C H A I R ! If you’d like to make a stunni

A R M C H A I R !
If you’d like to make a stunning armchair, our Upholstered Furniture Level 2 – The Armchair course is designed for students to learn the traditional techniques of both woodwork and upholstery at the same time. You can complete the whole armchair in 8 days during our regular weekly Tuesday daytimes classes or in 16 evening classes (also on Tuesdays). Please visit our website for more information and to book your place.
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U P H O L S T E R Y ! Yay, they look totally lush.

U P H O L S T E R Y !
Yay, they look totally lush. Massive well done to Jennie and her Mum Mary on completing our Level 1 Eco Upholstery for Beginners course, they have learnt to web, pad and cover their stools by using traditional upholstery tools and materials. This course length is 4 weekly daytime classes or 8 weekly of evening classes. You can book now for Tuesday daytimes starting in February, Tuesday evenings starting in April or book onto a single weekend course in February, April or May. Visit our website for more details.
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#themakershedbristol #stpaulslearningcentre #southwest #bristol #courses #tuition #lessons #craft #skills #learn #webbing #tacks #wadding #calico #beginners #eco #upholstery

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94 Grosvenor Road,
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