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Learn the craft of fine woodworking and other related skills with our weekly Kemahiran Hidup classes. Learn skills and techniques to elevate yourself into a true craftsman with guided lessons from our experienced pool of instructors.

Elevate your craftsmanship.

To the milennials, KitaBina is revitalizing your favourite hands-on school subject into an all-in-one course where you will start off with the basics, progress into intermediate joinery, and even touch on project planning and 3D design.

Skill Checklist

to make your own joinery and furniture:

Handy with Tools

Having tools at home is good. Knowing how to use them is the point

Knowing How Things Work

Everyone respects a person who can say “I know how that is built, coz I’ve built it before.”

Accurate & Detailed

Being methodical and meticulous helps you reduce rework

Begin with the End in Mind

Designing a project from scratch, visualizing the approach and anticipating problems

Independence

Setting up your workflow, Working safely and figuring out the build steps

The KitaBina Approach

Making mistakes is key

We celebrate failure because that is the fastest way to achieve breakthroughs.

Focus on building skills, not projects

We insist that the objective of the course is building skills; not bring home more stuff.

Discipline through practice

Practice makes progress, which develops discipline, which creates habits.

Student-led pace

Focuses on each individual and a catered teaching style according to their progress

Embracing Frustration

“The only way out is through”. Instead of quitting early, we want you to build grit and tenacity.

Do Difficult Things

Do the hard things until the hard things become easy things

Hand Tools & Basic Joinery

• Intro to handsaws – pull vs push, TPI, kerfs, techniques, ripcuts vs crosscuts

• Intro to handplanes – pull vs push, setting up, techniques

• Intro to chisels – techniques, half laps, precision marking

• Sharpening your tools – different mediums, techniques, tool maintenance

• Making a final project using hand tools only