We run a small number of Masterclasses in our workshop every year. Our three key courses are our Summer Hand Tools Masterclass, our Production Masterclass and our Design & Development Masterclass. A Private Mentoring Session is available at any time. Join our mailing list to keep up to date with our offerings.
Private Mentoring Session
I’m regularly asked for small bits of advice and I’d never discourage simple questions. Just email me ev**@****************om.au.
Some of you have more complex questions and you hold back because you don’t wish to impose. I’ve developed the Private Mentoring Session so you can “ask me anything” without feeling uncomfortable about it. More info here:
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Private Project Assistance
$170.50 incl GST
2026 Workshop Open Day and Hand Tool Event
Dunstone Design’s Workshop Open Day and Hand Tool Even is back this October, Sunday 18th!
This year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. Terry and the team from HNT Gordon will be here with a wide range of tools and demonstrations (see more on Terry’s plane making classes below! SOLD OUT). American hand-tool expert and educator Curtis Turner will be returning to demonstrate Lie-Nielsen tools. Ben Adams from the Sunshine Coast will be here with his handmade travishers. Colen Clenton, with his world renowned marking out tools, will be here. Other Australian tool makers will join us (TBA). We will blow the dust off some of our old Dunstone Design tool designs and have MacFarlane bowsanders and TC Scrapers for the first time in 6 years! Master Carver Hape Kiddle will be here discussing and demonstrating the range of knives, gouges, files, rasps and other hand tools that he uses every day in his practice. Hape will also have a selection of his carvings on exhibition in the Dunstone Design gallery. The Dunstone Design team will be demonstrating a range of techniques including glue ups, laminating and shaping.
Dunstone Design will have timbers shorts, turning blanks and resawn veneers for sale. We will have $500 “luck dip” packs of select timber shorts, and factory seconds or superseded furniture designs for sale and discounted prices.
10am to 4pm Sunday 18th October. Tickets are $10 and limited to 400 people.
Attendees are welcome to stay all day, but if you allocate yourself three hours at any point in the day, you will get a good taste of everything that’s happening.
Tickets are limited to 400 places over the full 6-hour period. Tickets are $10 each to help us cover the insurance and organizational costs.
Parking in available in the Services NSW carpark and in Aurora Pl. Disabled parking is available with prior notice. Our workshop toilets are easy to access but we do not have designated disabled toilets.
SOLD OUT!! Sorry guys, Terry’s classes sold out in the first 24 hours.
On the Thursday and Friday leading up to the Open Day and Hand Tool Event, Terry Gordon will be teaching plane making in our workshop! Terry is handling the ticketing for this, and you will need to contact him directly via email pl********@***********om.au with the subject line Plane Making Course at Dunstone Design.
The two options are:
Thursday 15 October 2026
Block Plane Making Course
$596 per person
Friday 16 October 2026
Shoulder Plane Making Course
¾” Shoulder Plane: $576 per person
1” Shoulder Plane: $587 per person
Once again, email Terry direct via Pl********@***********om.au.
