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Spalted console

A simple fact about bespoke furniture is that good design sells. That’s a lesson that Fiona Gilfillan, one of recent professional course graduates has learned. During her course, she made a spalted Sycamore and Elm console table, which sold at the graduate exhibition. She was then commissioned by another customer to make a second console …

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Stephen Barr Brexit cabinet Chippendale school

Brexit divides cabinet

Stephen Barr, one of our recent professional course graduates, first came to the school on a one-week introductory course. It’s a good way for potential professional woodworkers to see if they really do have sawdust in their veins. And if they do, and enrol onto our professional course, the introductory course fees are deducted. It’s …

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Tom Smyth bench Chippendale school

Finding inspiration

Inspiration is something that we can all struggle with, and sometimes we find it in unusual places. The lesson is that, wherever you find inspiration, grab it with both hands. That was true of recent professional course graduate Tom Smyth from Bristol whose previous job was on a community farm in Somerset. Tom knew that …

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