Heartwood
Guild Courses
Upcoming Courses
Heartwood offers immersive traditional carpentry courses focused entirely on hand-tool woodworking and time-honoured techniques. Our workshops bring together experienced traditional carpenters from across the country to share practical skills, knowledge, and stories in a relaxed, professional, and welcoming environment. Whether you’re beginning your journey or refining existing skills, our courses are designed to connect people with the craft, community, and sense of purpose that woodworking has given us for generations.
Traditional Timber Framing
4 Days
Japanese Scarf Joint
Kanawa Tsugi
2 Days
Post To Stone
1 Day
Past Courses
Sweetwater Barn - April 26
Our first run of traditional timber framing workshops were an amazing success with 30 participants traveling from all over Australia to join us in Sweetewater Barn for our Fundamentals course.
Each course ran for 3 days and covered everything from tree selection, milling, seasoning, timber species, frame design, joinery layout, hand cutting joinery, making timber pegs and finishing a full cross section of frame (Bent).
We were lucky enough to have Bevan from Beam & Brace travel down from Byron Bay as well as Ben & Renata from 35 south Building Company traveling up from Adelaide to Guest instruct over the 3 courses.
The frame built during the workshops has been sold to a local family and will be used as a small cabin home.