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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at £500. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Hand Tool Workshop - Make a Sushi Platter
A day with hand tools, a form made by you - your creativity on the plate.
POW Workshops
4.9 (152)
3 hours
1 to 8
(public classes),
6 to 16
(private)
(private classes)
£60 - £75
(Earlybird price of £60 applies if you book into a public session 14+ days ahead, otherwise £75 per guest when you book for 1 guest, £65/guest for 2+ guests)
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arrow_right_alt arrow_downward- Choose and read timber: understanding how walnut, beech, ash, and oak differ in grain, density, and working character
- Mark out a platter shape: laying out your chosen profile on a wood blank — freehand or from a template; the shape is yours
- Cut and refine a profile: sawing to the line with a jigsaw, then sanding and spokeshaving the edges smooth
- Taper chopsticks with a hand plane: reading a taper, setting a plane, and working a fine section from a square blank
- Apply edge treatments with hand tools: chamfer, roundover, or combination — your decision, made with planes, rasps, chisels, and spokeshaves
- Add personal details: using the tools to bring your own character to the platter or chopsticks
- Drill a soy sauce bowl recess (optional): marking and boring a recess into the platter surface at the drill press to fit a small ceramic bowl
- Finish with food-safe oil: two coats across the platter and chopsticks, leaving the grain open and the surface ready for the table
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What you'll get
All timber, tools, and finishing materials are provided.
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Knowledge required
Suitable for complete beginners — no prior woodworking experience is needed.
What to bring
Wear comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes or trainers. No open-toed footwear is allowed.
Your teacher
Brandon Harrison
Brandon Harrison is a fine furniture designer-maker with an international formation — trained at Sturt Craft Centre in Australia and Yacademy in Italy — and a practice built around heirloom-quality work where the construction is part of the design. Steam bending, wedged tenons, and exposed joinery run through his own exhibited work, recognised at Craft + Design Canberra, Vivid Furniture Design Melbourne, Clarence Furniture Prize, and Wood Review’s Student Maker of the Year. He brings the same depth of thinking to the workshop.
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POW is a not-for-profit open access workshop that provides aspiring and experienced makers, product designers, carpenters, model makers, furniture makers, tailors, engineers, artists, sculptors, and everyone in between, with an affordable and high quality space, equipment and learning to be able to ideate, innovate and create.We offer space, tools and machines to craft, and run workshops and training for hobbyist looking to get away from the day to day, or experienced artists and makers trying to improve their craft or grow their businessesWe started POW, to reduce the barriers of space, cost & stress for people trying to make and createOur vision is simple:Give everyone the chance to make it.
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