Icy Conditions

Well the new term is well under way and despite the cold snap outside, the Wood Workshop here at Chelsea College is being warmed by the usual energy and enthusiasm of our students. A steady start has seen students from various disciplines in with us making a wide variety of work. It's been a welcome warm up to what we anticipate to be a very hectic term. Below are some images taken from the past few days.

A morning of hard work and all ends polished perfectly. 

Gluing up some Cherry veneered MDF boxes. 

Very nice soft wood box with pull out drawers. 

The old work horse Lathe being put through it's paces. 

Multiple acrylic dodecahedrons being formed here.

Weng stands back and admires this table. 

An acrylic incubator having the finishing touches added.

FDA Interior Design students cracking on with their small making project, part of their workshop induction.  

The vacuum former being used here to blow some mirrored film through a former. 

Carving, filling, sanding and a lot of patience has gone into this little wooden sculpture.

Happy Christmas

From all of us in the Wood Workshop, here at Chelsea College, we would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a fantastic New Year. We hope it goes with a bang!!

Charity Table Tennis Evening

Not for the first time the Wood Workshop, here at Chelsea College, was transformed into a sporting arena as again we hosted a table Tennis evening. The difference this time was that this event was also a fundraiser, for the charity Action Medical Research, for whom Stef and Phil aim to raise over £3000 when they tackle multiple mountain climbs on their bikes in the French Alps in June next year.
It was a very enjoyable evening with many happy prize winners and the guys raised a fantastic £400. Not a bad start. You can find out all about the challenge and the charity by visiting the boys blog. http://theglasscrankers.blogspot.co.uk
Below are some images taken from the evening.

The evening in full flow with Phil looking like he is enjoying an early victory. 

Nice spread the boys put on. 

And lots of lovely prizes for the raffle.

Stef and Phil congratulate themselves at the end of the evening. 
Check out more about their chosen charity here. https://www.action.org.uk

FDA Diorama Project

From time to time we highlight a course group or a project that has involved us in the Wood Workshop, here at Chelsea College. This time we have the end results of a Diorama project by the first year students on FDA Interior & Spatial Design. Using some of the model making skills acquired during their inductions with us, the aim was to create a three dimensional scene from a photograph. Below are the results.