Learn how the professionals do it, in "One of the Best Woodworking Schools in the World".
This is David Savage an English furniture maker with over thirty years experience making beautiful wooden furniture. He is Director of Rowden Farm Workshops, one of the world's top ten workshops as featured in "Furniture with Soul" to be published by Kodansha International in 2010. His craftsmen Daren Millman and Steve Perry show you clearly their methods of working. We put the camera where you would stand to learn alongside them. Learn from the professionals, see how to combine skill with speed, how to choose tools, sharpen them, make joints and fit drawers. Watch them doing it, try it yourself, if necessary watch again.
The best way we could show you without you coming here to England
We put the camera where you would be watching the action
These methods are the same as we teach to our our students, see their amazing work here.
Full money back no quibble guarantee
"The Woodworking DVDs we Have to Offer ".
" Brand new release, showing you how to use your chisel the correct proffessional way. This DVD is a must have for every woodworker out there!"
David Savage - Posted July 16th 2010
How to use your chisel correctly
If you want to really cut and control wood, make tight joints and pare clean flat surfaces you need to sharpen hold and use chisels correctly.If you have seen the outstanding quality of work by our students from the student gallery and wondered how they achieved such beauty, they learnt professional yet simple skills from our craftman Steve Perry....read more
" Well knock me down, stand me back up, for what do I know, apparently not much, so it would seem. The new Hand Planning DVD was so bloody good, totally changed my mind about what I thought I knew."
Steven Cooke - Posted April 9th 2010
How to the Most out of Your Bench Plane. Double DVD pack!!!
At Rowden Workshop here in Devon, we not only design and make beautiful modern furniture we teach people how
to go about it. Join us, watch Senior Craftsman Daren Millman show how a bench plane is prepared and then used. This is the tool for getting accurate
flat surfaces suitable for joinery, and we show you
how this is done....read more
" The DVDs are superb especially re planing a reference surface. Well done"
Graham - Posted March 26th 2010
How You can Choose Woodworking Hand Tools. And get it Right First Time.
Choosing the right hand tools is difficult without impartial expert advice. We have guided hundreds of trainee furniture makers over 30 years to carefully select a small group of hand tools. We can guide you too with the information in this DVD. We are not associated with any tool manufacturer and do not accept "free samples". Our advice is impartial and based on 30 years experience....read more
" I enjoyed this Dvd and found it to have a good deal of useful info. Certainly it is well worth the cost to a new woodworker. I hope David continues to make a set of Dvds for those not able to attened his course."
Mel Montemerlo: Washington D.C Woodworking guild Member
Learn to Really Sharpen Woodworking Hand Tools and Feel the Control it gives you.
Gain control of that woodworking project. That is what a really sharp edge gives you, control.
The sharper, the more keen that edge is the less push and and shove, and, the more feel you get back from that blade. That is why it is important
Why this DVD is important to developing your skills.
Learn how to put a keen edge on a hand tool in just over a minute without faffing about.
Learn the way professionals sharpen their blades, saving time and still getting the best result.......
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How You can Learn to Cut Dovetails "Straight From The Saw"
Watch time served cabinetmaker Daren Millman cutting best quality through dovetails easily and quickly.
Learn the steps to take so you can copy him in your work.
Learn how to hold a dovetail saw and how to stand.
Get the feel of using a great hand tool that you will enjoy using much more than a noisy dusty power tool.
Get control of your hand tools and enjoy this woodworking more.
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" I fantasize about being able to attend your year long program but, in the meantime, the wonderful DVDs will have to suffice. I have enjoyed all four and have quickly put my newfound knowledge to use. I look forward to more of the same."
Bruce Baird: Sewanee, Tennessee
How You can Learn to Make a Drawer that will never stick.
Learn step by step to make and fit a handmade best quality drawer the professional way.
Learn the Euopean "Best Quality, piston fit " drawer making method.
Gain great pleasure and admiration from doing it "just right".
You control the speed at which to learn this complex series of steps
See it being done in front of you.
Jump straight to the section you want to know about, watch it, learn the method, then you go do it at the bench.
You can do it if you know how and follow the instructions
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"These DVDs Are The Next Best Thing To You Being There".
These DVDs are the closest thing we can offer to being right here with us learning to make to top quality. The content is exactly the same as we teach at Rowden, we put the camera where you would stand as a student here, we show the process and break it down into steps you can follow.
Why it is so important that you know this.
Hand tools are a nicer, quieter, less dust, more satisfying way of working. They make your project more pleasurable. Hand tools enable you to feel the material, to learn the real difference between maple and cherry by feeling it with your hands as you plane or saw. Power tools have their place, but to achieve real control you need to invest in your skill and understanding of the tools closest to you, your hand tools.
Online Home Study Kit early bird offer...
Now all these five DVDs will be available to you, at a special discounted price and combined with a support service direct to Rowden Workshops. You will be able to contact one of us by e-mail for a period of one year from the day you join the workshop. We will answer your questions relating to the specific topic of the DVD making sure you have the answer to your question and can proceed to the next stage. This is a new venture for us, we expect to only be able to support a few makers at a time so we will be only able to offer it FOR A SHORT TIME. The cost of this will be only One Hundred and Seventy Eight pounds for a one year subscription to our online course. New titles will be added during the year and you as one of our first members will be offered these at a discount rate.
" Hey David,
Congratulations on the dvd's I think you really have something here. For folks that do not otherwise have the opportunity to join you for morning tea at Rowden Farms, the videos will no doubt prove very popular And I am sure your students will appreciate them for future reference.
Immediate first impressions were great. I liked your introduction; sitting in your chair and speaking to the camera my impression was "heres a guy that I would like to learn from." The portfolio of pieces is of course beautiful. For the most part the camera work and sound were nicely done. In the later chapters of Drawer making and again in Dovetailing the lengthy close-ups of the white board when Daren was referring to them were very helpful. Showing Tim fitting his draws was a nice touch; it reinforced Daren's comments that this is a lot of work.""
"Al Shaver, Ontario Canda, April 12, 2009"
New Titles for 2010 to include.
How you can learn to use a dovetail saw
Buying sharpening and using a bench saw so you can cut straight without a machine.
How you can learn to use a bench plane to get a joint with no glue line.
How you can learn to use a block plane and special planes.
How you can use bench hooks and shooting boards to get better more accurate work.
NOW you can be part of our Woodworking Community:
- Get free regular information on tools and techniques
- Get to see pieces of world class furniture being made in the workshops
- Recieve offers and discounts on course and Dvds
- Get to hear of new Dvds as they are made.
- Get to know us and see the quality that motivates all our work.
My Personal Guarantee to you.
“The process of teaching quite complex making techniques is to show you how a skilled person would do it then let you have a go. If it doesn't go right first time, review the process, reflect on your action but don't beat yourself up. You inhabit this wonderful mechanism the human body, your body, if you allow it, it will adapt your stance and step by step improve your work”
My aim is to produce the best teaching videos of some of the more complex woodworking techniques. We have been teaching here now for over thirty years, and reckon we know how to do it, go and see our students work in here. These movies are our attempt to enable those of you who cannot come to Rowden Workshops to see how we teach.These movies are the best we have been able to do so far. These are no Speilbergs but they show the processes way better than a book or magazine and better than many DVDs out there. The only better way would be to come here to Europe and work with us. If you feel we haven't lived up to our promise return the DVD in good condition within 30 days and I will refund you in full, full stop, no questions, no “ifs” no “buts” unconditional refund. I know some people will take advantage of this but life is too short.
Have a nice woody day
David Savage
