In my busy work and family schedules I manage to take time out to re-charge my batteries. This time I think outside of the box and over 2 days on 13 and 14 July, I attend a "Intro to Furniture Making" at MSFW, Box Hill.
Why furniture making? I don't really know. I am thinking, "maybe I can make a bookcase or a nice piece of furniture for the living room". Actually it's not that easy. This is only a 2-day course on some concepts and principles of furniture making. To make a real nice piece of furniture one has to join a tutor group (3 hours a week for 11 weeks) and work from conceptual designs, to final design, to material list, to buying the timber, to cutting, planing, making joinery, sanding, oiling; to final product.
In Intro at least we get to experience cutting timber, surface planing of timber, sharpening tools, and making two types of joints.
There are 6 of us: John, Jon, Bruce, Glenn, Chris, and me. All novices.
Over cups of tea we are engrossed in our own world for 2 days talking, observing and learning how to make joinery. I forget work and I forget stress. I enjoy the new knowledge. Will I go for the tutor group to make my own piece of fine furniture? Probably not.
