smartBoxmaker 2025 courses schedule:

a full list of currently available course dates:

2024:

November 9/10: inlay weekend
November 13th-18th: curved box intensive course – 7 days, some preparation required
November 21st-December 1st: curved box long course – 11 days

2025:

Jan 25th/26th: inlay weekend
Feb 3rd-14th: curved box long course – 11 days, Sunday off
Feb 22nd/23rd: curved box introduction weekend
March 1st/2nd: french polishing weekend
March 10th-16th: curved box intensive course – 7 days, some preparation required
March 22nd/23rd: rectangular box weekend
April 2nd-7th: rectangular box long course – 6 days
April 12th/13th: chopstick weekend
April 26th/27th: curved box introduction weekend
May 5th-11th: curved box intensive course – 7 days, some preparation required
May 21st-26th: rectangular box long course – 6 days
June 7th/8th: inlay weekend
June 16th-27th: curved box long course – 11 days, Sunday off

Dates for the second half of 2025 will be posted in February.
Full descriptions of these courses are on my ‘which course?‘ page.

charges and booking your place:

Feel free to email me or call me on +44 (0) 1694 781318 if you’d like to discuss the options. If you’d like to go ahead and book a place on any of the courses above please let me know your preference from the payment options below and I will invoice you as appropriate.

Please note that I don’t take bookings on the site as I used to, preferring to keep control over bookings by communicating directly with those interested in participating.

charges:

weekends:

cost is £395 – you can confirm your booking in one of the following ways:

• 30% deposit [£120] with the balance on attending [£275]
• or full advance payment, discounted by 10% [£355]

6 day:

cost is £895 – you can confirm your booking in one of the following ways:

• 30% deposit [£270] with the balance on attending [£625]
• or full advance payment, discounted by 10% [£800]

7 day:

cost is £995 – you can confirm your booking in one of the following ways:

• 30% deposit [£295] with the balance on attending [£700]
• or full advance payment, discounted by 10% [£895]

11 day:

cost is £1,350 – you can confirm your booking in one of the following ways:

• 30% deposit [£400] with the balance on attending [£950]
• or full advance payment, discounted by 10% [£1,215]

one-to-one:

cost is £350 per day, £675 for 2 days or £975 for 3 days – and for more days add £325 per day.

After dates have been agreed you can confirm your booking in one of the following ways:

• 30% deposit of the total with the balance on attending
• or full advance payment, discounted by 10%