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10.09.13

 Carving out new skills at workshop

A group of women enjoyed a girls weekend with a difference – working with power tools, dust and wood to create a plywood table and stool set.

Wakapuaka’s Centre for Fine Woodworking ran one of its popular workshops at the weekend, where students get to create the furniture. It was the fifth course it had run but the participants in last weeks course by chance ended up being all women.

Helen Gerry who does administration and handles enrolments for the centre said the centre had quite a lot of female students in the past but this was the first time this had happened. She said the course was quite intensive and it was not the cruisy girls’ weekend that some of the participants might have expected.

Helen said furniture maker and tutor Mike Hindmarsh had designed a clever slot-together table made with routers and jigsaws and no gluing.

They had been overwhelmed with interest in the course. Helen said it was great to celebrate an all girls woodworking get together.

“We are always hearing comments from female visitors and students who say ‘I never did woodworking at school’ or ‘My dad wouldn’t let me go in his shed'”

Helen said some of the women on the course had come from around the South Island to take part in the course as part of a girly get-together.

For more information on the course visit cfw.co.nz

Derived from : The Nelson Leader, September 5 2013

Participants in the weekend woodworking workshop.

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