Technique and Skills
The course at Ashridge is structured and covers all the basic techniques for the construction of tables, cabinets and jointed chairs.
These chairs are considered by some to be the peak of their achievement,
consisting to a large degree of compound angle joints. Before we learnt to split the atom, they used to
say that if you could make a chair you could make anything.
We have all the basic primary preparation machines but I see no need for lathes and spindle moulders.
Our machines are in two separate machine rooms and all benches are separate in dustfree rooms.
You will do all your own machine work which on many courses would not be the case.
Student in latter stages of course achieves greater complexity.