Carpenter course at 'Schreinerei Eltschinger'

Carpenter course at ‘Schreinerei Eltschinger’


The idea joining a carpeter course was born while having an afterwork beer with an old friend Alex Suzuki, who has already applied to that course. That said it was kind of a no-brainer to apply as well. I booked one of the open seats for toe Carpenter 1-2-3 course, a full day course, to get used to woodworking at ‘Schreinerei Eltschinger’ in Rheinfelden/Switzerland.

The course itself consists to the following parts:

Part 1 teaches project based usage of material and machines.

  • Timber products
  • Massive wood
  • Hand workshop tools
  • Power tools
  • Somacube
  • Transport box

Part 2 consists of the practical use of hand workshop tools.

  • Gluing plywood
  • Tablesaws
  • Router and router jigs
  • Rotarysander and sandpaper
  • Fixtures

Part 3 uses the content of part 1 and 2 while appying the learned.

  • Planning a small drawer box
  • Creating the list of materials
  • Cutting the material
  • Connecting the pieces
  • Sanding

Detailed information about the course which is held in german can be found by following the below listed links:

Even though I knew a couple of things already, the course was fund and I learned a lot.