Yandles
course review
INProfile sent Tom Rogers along to Yandles
to review their one day routing course.
Yandles
showroom
ur second routing course
case study took us to the
one day beginners course
set in the beautiful west country
village of Martock, Somerset, the
home of Yandles Woodworking.
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trammel bar by 30mm then changed
the cutter for a radius or core cutter
to cut our crumb groove.
Finally, using an ovolo cutter, we
profiled the outside edge to
complete our board.
As well as being spoilt by an
extensively stocked showroom
including hand tools, power
tools and arts and crafts, you’ll
be impressed by the array of
worldwide exotic timbers,
thrilled by the works of art in
the china, craft and doll’s house
galleries and tempted by the
exquisite home-made food in
the restaurant.
A little time is left at the end of the
course when the lecturer can deal
with particular requirements of the
students.
Dolls House
gallery
The routing course is situated next
to the sawmill in their course centre.
As with any course that involves the
use of machinery, the first stage
covered health and safety issues with
emphasis on ‘always unplug your
router before making any
corrections or alterations’ the rule
so often told, yet rarely actioned.
Once we were clear about the safety
aspects we dealt with care and
maintenance of routers and cutters,
in particular, preventative
maintenance.
The next stage, dealt with familiarity
of the component parts and
accessories of the router, their
functions and the logical implications
of misuse or overload.
For the rest of the morning, we
followed the lecturers
demonstrations with basic routing
techniques, like sidefence work to
produce grooves, rebates, stepped
moulds and mortises, the benefits of
the clamp guides and bench clamps,
the use of guide bushes and
templates and the advantages and
accuracy of bearing guided cutters.
Following lunch, we watched
demonstrations on the Craftsman
Router Table, the DJ300 Dovetail Jig
and the Router Carver, all of which
allowed time for practice periods.
Lastly, we were able to test some of
the techniques we had attempted
earlier in the day by producing a
bread board:
Taking a square section of timber,
this was held down to the bench
using double-sided tape and the
centre marked to locate the position
for the trammel.
Then, using a two flute straight
cutter we cut through our boards in
stages to produce the complete
circle.
Next we slid the router in along the
30
The course covered safety and basic
routing techniques in sufficient detail,
provided plenty of hands-on and
enabled the students to go home
with a bread board they had made
themselves. I thought the course
was very good value for money and I
highly recommend it! IP
Forming basic
bread board
shape
Completed
bread board
Course Details:
One day basic through to advanced
courses available. Includes hand-held
techniques and table routing.
Course Price __________£55
Hurst Works, Martock, Somerset
TA12 6JU Tel: 01935 822207
Contacts: Ann Pain or Carol Bulmer
Lecturers: Gordon Mitchell, John
Parslow & John Stevons
Autumn 1999