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SPECIAL INTEREST WORKSHOPS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS WOOD CARVERS / CABINET MAKERS WORKSHOPS 14 Days & 13 Nights - Woodcarvers & Cabinetmakers Workshop (Specimen Only) Ref No: SIW 002 Meal Code: (B) Departure dates: (to be advised by newsletter, or on request) Extras at guest expense: Purchase of materials to be used, shipping of finished item(s) back to home country. Outline Itinerary: Day One: Arrive in Chiang Mai by air or train and be transferred out to check into the Suan Bua Resort, spend the afternoon at leisure and then attend a cocktail party and dinner to meet others attending the workshop. Day Two. Breakfast. Lectures, slide shows by local experts on woodcarving and furniture making. Lectures cover the history, the raw materials and their current day use. Lunch in the resort. Lectures by local expatriate experts of exporting wooden objects, furniture from Thailand, and on importing the same into various European countries, and on the suitability of taking woods indigenous to this region, to other regions. Day Three. Breakfast. Split into two groups to visit workshops, sales outlets building and selling wood carvings and wooden furniture respectively. Lunch at a local restaurant. Visit various suppliers of new and 2nd hand wood, and visit the workshops in which you will be working. Day Four to Day Twelve. Breakfast. Spend the morning selecting your raw materials, take lunch in a local restaurant then start work on the carving(s) or furniture(s) items you have elected to make. There would be a different scale of charges for days working, and days off at leisure. Work related short (1-3 day) study tours to the provincial areas, Burma, Laos and other Mekong region countries will be offered as options, to be taken during the 14 day programme. Day Thirteen. Breakfast. Arrange packing shipment of your items back to your own country. Evening dinner and farewell party in Chiang Mai. Day Fourteen. Breakfast. Transfer to airport/railway station for flight or train out. Note* Participants are to bring their own hand tools. Bench tools are provided.
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