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The Quiet Workshop Spring Newsletter

Thank you for a great start to the year

We’ve been incredibly busy here at The Quiet Workshop but all of that hard work is now being rewarded. We’ve run four workshops in three different designs at our new workshops so far this year and have lots of bookings going into the summer. Thank you for your support.

We had a lovely bunch of stool makers last weekend who all made beautiful pieces. It’s been a delightful start to the season and we’re really grateful for the reviews on craftcourses.com.

The new workbenches are in place and working well and the workshop looks lovely in the spring light. It’s a pleasure to be in there.

Several of our courses, particularly the round stool and simple stool have sold out so we’ve added a number of new dates, mostly at weekends. Have a look at craftcourses.com for the dates that suit you.

Shows

We exhibit and demonstrate at craft and country shows during the summer. It’s a lovely way of meeting potential new chairmakers! If you’d like to have a chat about our courses and see some of the chairs, stools and benches you can make come along to a show and we can meet:

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tools of the trade

We often get asked for tool lists. We try to keep the number of tools we use on courses as small and as affordable as possible so that when you go home and build your course chair a sibling it doesn’t cost you a fortune.

Some students want to bring their own tools. We’re very happy to accommodate that but we don’t have time to set them up and sharpen them during a course so only bring them if they’re in good condition. To give you an idea of the tools we use here is a photograph of the basic set for a simple stool or chair course. It doesn’t include all of the clamps and some of the less used tools.

If you want to bring some of your own tools but don’t know if they’re appropriate drop us an email and we can talk it through.

What’s for lunch?

The lovely reviews our students have posted seem to be as much about the food as the chairmaking!

When you come on a course you get elevenses, lunch and cake mid-afternoon. Bryony makes everything fresh each day and often the mid-morning cookies are still warm from the oven.

Last week we had our food hygiene inspection and all of the training, planning and preparation paid off with full marks!

As always, if you’re interested in coming on a course please give us a ring (07778 397328) or drop us an email.

Enjoy the spring,

StJohn & Bryony

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