"Sometime during 2018, in an auction room on viewing day, a piece of furniture caught my eye and for a moment there wasn’t another piece in the room. In fact at that precise moment there wasn’t another piece of furniture on the planet that I was faintly aware of. More interesting and more shocking to me was that the object was everything I’d trained my eye to ignore. Three-legged tables, or to use their vernacular term, cricket tables, have been on my radar and my bench ever since." – Derek Jones

Cricket tables range from the most basic stick variety to complex joined examples that can only be resolved when you’ve broken free of 90° and square. In three days, Derek will help you do just that, as you use hand tools to create joints for tops and bottoms and all the pieces in between to build a version of this historic form.

Students will receive a tool list from the instructor.

Derek – an outstanding teacher – runs the Lowfat Roubo site, where he sells tools and offers courses in the U.K. He is currently working on a book on the cricket table form for Lost Art Press, due out late this year. He is former editor of Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine. 

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Cost

The class fee is $600. There will also be a materials fee (to be determined, but likely around $150, due at the start of class.) Cancellations will be accepted up until four weeks before the class for a full refund. If a cancellation occurs within four weeks prior to the event, a refund will be issued only if the slot can be filled.