Melbourne

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Craft

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Woodworking

Japanese Kumiko Box Course Experience Melbourne

Create this stunningly elegant hexagonal Japanese Kumiko box.

Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking

5.0 (5)

53k followers

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7 x 3 hours

1 to 8 guests

$750 (Afterpay available)

Melbourne

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Craft

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Woodworking

Overview

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Teacher

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What you'll do

The Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking is excited to present this unique course dedicated to beginners – the Kumiko Box! In this 7-week Beginner’s course, you will make this stunningly elegant hexagonal box made from Walnut and Maple or Celery Top Pine (depending on availability).

The class will be divided into two main sections. The first section being devoted to the 6-sided box in Walnut and the second section being dedicated to a Kumiko panel to be installed into the lid.

In the first component of the course, you will learn how to safely mill a box blank using our bandsaw, planer, thicknesser, wide belt sander, and panel saw. After this, you will learn how to piece together the hexagonal box perfectly with hand tools.

In the second component, we will focus on two Kumiko methods to produce this attractive ‘kasane rindou’ pattern. The first method will be used to prepare the Kumiko frame utilizing a table saw jig (especially prepared for the class). The approach for the second method is more traditional and uses just hand tools to create the more intricate pattern inside the Kumiko triangular segments.

After the Kumiko lid is completed, we will line the hexagonal box with Maple or Celery Top Pine and time permitting, we will learn how to apply a basic shellac finish to the completed Kumiko Box.

Although it is one of the smallest projects we teach at The Guild, most of us agree that it is one of the prettiest pieces on offer and certainly packs a punch in terms of skills learnt in a short period of time.

Alastair Boell - Director: Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking

Gift or Buy

Knowledge required

Beginners welcome!

What you'll get

A beautifully handcrafted Japanese Kumiko Box to take home at the end of the course.

What to bring

Sketchpad and pencil for taking down notes. All materials included.

Session repeats

This class series runs over 7 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

Location

Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking - 14 Cottage Street, Blackburn VIC

10 minute walk from Blackburn Station

Your teacher

Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking

5.0 (5)

53k followers

The Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking (The Guild) was founded by Alastair Boell in 2007. After graduating from the world-renowned North Bennet Street School, Boston, USA, Alastair felt that there was a great need in Australia for an educational facility that focuses on traditional skills.

The Guild is conveniently located in Blackburn and provides three different course formats:

Our open courses offer ongoing morning, afternoon and evening woodworking classes for students of any level to undertake a project of their own desire.
Our weekly project-based courses are geared towards beginners or anyone interested in a more structured class where everyone works on the same project once a week and where the start and finish dates are set.
Our intensive project-based courses are for those who would like to immerse themselves in a project and have it completed in the shortest possible time. These courses range from a one-day course to an eight-day course.

Our student-teacher ratios are very low which enables each student to get some one-on-one instruction time from our highly qualified instructors.

Our facilities include a fully equipped machine room, four classrooms with workbenches, numerous hand tools, hardware, finishing products and a variety of exotic salvaged timbers. We also offer onsite milling with our own mill and an in-house workshop milling service. For those interested in ‘Commission’ work, we have a gifted community of furniture designers/makers on the call.

The Guild is committed to preserving and advancing craft traditions in furniture making. We are also committed to promoting greater awareness and appreciation of craftsmanship. In our classes, we emphasise the skilful use of hand tools and power equipment and informed use of appropriate materials and proportions.

We are passionate about what we do and want to share information, ideas and skills with our extended woodworking community.

We promise to do our very best to provide you with endless opportunities in a stimulating and supportive community. We invite you to take your place at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking!