Woodworking Courses
We have been organizing carpentry courses in Počátky near Chotěboř for many years. We are very happy that the courses are still very popular, and we are also very inspired by meeting you. We adapt the courses individually to your interests, knowledge and skills, so that beginners and advanced people interested in this craft take away a lot of new knowledge and acquire a lot of necessary skills, or take away their own product. We are very pleased if one of the participants is so interested in the carpentry course that he decides to come to us repeatedly and continue with further teaching or the production of his own project.
Planned carpentry courses
Carpentry course
At the beginning of the course, it is possible to choose the teaching or project form of the course. The project form of the course must be agreed by e-mail in advance. Photos and information about the courses can be found below.
The course takes place only in the Czech language.
- Friday 22/11/2024 (space available for substitute)
- Friday 29/11/2024 (1 free place)
- Friday 24/1/2025 (vacant places)
- Friday 21/2/2025 (vacant places)
The price of the course is CZK 2480
The price includes 21% VAT. Lunch and refreshments are also included in the price of the course.
Wood turning course
Limited capacity for max. 3 people. Photos and information about the course can be found below.
The course takes place only in the Czech language.
- Friday 22/11/2024 (space available for substitute)
- Friday 29/11/2024 (space available for substitute)
- Friday 24/1/2025 (vacant places)
- Friday 21/2/2025 (vacant places)
The price of the course is CZK 2480
The price includes 21% VAT. Lunch and refreshments are also included in the price of the course.
Additional information
Venue: Počátky u Chotěboře. See the map to find us.
Time schedule: The course always starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m.
Accommodation: For the seasoned - you can sleep in your own tent on the grassy area right at the course location. For others, we have tips for accommodation here www.icchotebor.cz.
Transport: For participants who arrive by public transport, we can, upon prior agreement, provide transport from Chotěbora to the course venue in the morning and back again after the end of the course.
Gift vouchers: The gift voucher is not bound to a specific date, you can choose the date yourself from our offer of courses. To reserve the selected date, contact us by email: info@truhlarime.cz.
Participants who have already been to our carpentry course once can, upon agreement, register for a course that is already fully occupied. We sometimes take a photographic record of the courses. These photos can be published (website, facebook and others).
Any further information on tel. 602 050 062 or email info@truhlarime.cz
Program of courses
We tailor the course to each of the participants, according to their requirements, interests, skills and knowledge. This makes the course suitable for everyone. We can organize the course on another date chosen by you, if at least 6 interested parties meet, it can be used, for example, as a team building.
Teaching carpentry course
What will you get to know?
- sharpening chisels and planes
- adjusting hand planes and working with them
- correct outline of the material and its marking
- production of pins, mortises and other structural joints
- gluing joints
- you will get to know the massive material and we will explain its correct use in production
- you will try different types of carpentry tools
A fully equipped carpentry workshop is available, you can familiarize yourself with the machines and everything that can be produced or processed on them.
For those interested in classic carpentry techniques, there are lots of old planes of all different kinds and other old tools that are rarely used today. Those interested in furniture production can try working with laminate, MDF boards and other flat materials.
- you will try pinning in different ways
- hand taping the edges
- hinge fitting and other fittings
Project carpentry course
After prior agreement, you can create your own project, within the limits of our capabilities and knowledge, we will accommodate you as much as possible.
Material for a stool or other product of a similar size is included in the course price.
Project carpentry course
A one-day woodturning course for beginners to learn the basics of spindle woodturning and bowl turning. You will try working with different types of lathes and get to know other tools. You will get to know different turning techniques, you will get a lot of information about wood, product finishing, surface treatments and tool sharpening.
Gift Voucher
Buy a gift voucher and give a carpentry course to your loved one as a source of new energy and inspiration for life.
Photo gallery from courses
Carpentry course - Teaching
Basic tools prepared for carpentry course participants
Sharpening chisels
Cutting with a frame saw
Course participants at work
Working on a shaping saw
Semi-covered teeth
Round pin fitting
Trimming the window frame
Preparing a new joint for the dining table top
Repair of the front of an old table with drawers
Working with veneer
Finished roughly machined stand
Carpentry courses - Wood turning
Carpentry courses - Photos from projects
Many participants were so impressed by our carpentry course that they come to us repeatedly and continue their lessons, or create their own smaller or larger projects here. As part of the carpentry courses, we have already produced, for example, a chest of drawers, a kitchen unit from spruce joints, doors, a sash window, stairs, bunk beds, solid ash tables and many other products.
Spruce jointed shelf cabinet
The project is an example of a fairly easy and effective procedure. A large part of the work was in the careful formatting of the boards, the staking out of the shelves and the subsequent precise splicing and tidying up of all the parts.
Planning over the prepared spruce joint
Peg-up shelves
Clearing the shelves
This is how the shelves look folded and pulled down during gluing
Fitting and screwing the back of the shelf cabinet
And the shelves are ready
Chest of drawers
The next project is a bit more complicated than the open shelf cabinet, the production of which we have already described here. It is a chest of drawers made of spruce joints. This project was completed in the course participant's home workshop.
This is how many a project begins
The basic frame of the chest of drawers
Preparation of material for creating doors
Carving door hinges
Finished dresser
Pantograph
A simple tool that we use for marking products and milling various images and decorations.
Pantograph at work
A simpler picture
A more complex art nouveau motif
The copying process demonstrated on an elephant
Milling a whale
Decoration of the product on the pantograph
Bunk bed to Mysle from Počátek u Chotěboře
Video from photos captured during the production of the double bunk/house (more info here). It was made as a project in Mr. Paul's wonderful carpentry classes.