The community of those who make with their hands
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Les Affutés (“The Sharpened”) is a project dedicated to all those who want to make by themselves, with workshops in various fields such as woodwork, sewing, leather, zero waste, etc. It’s also a makerspace, a kind of collaborative workshop, where you can come and find tools and coaching to build your own project or repair your objects.
We are here to support you in your projects and show you how to use such tool or technique. We believe that with a little help we can all develop our manual skills and become “sharpened”.
Our learning classes
Les Affutés offers collective classes every day, taught by an expert, to develop manual skills: woodwork, sewing, knitting, zero waste, electricity, renovation, etc.
The classes are here to make us autonomous on all these everyday things that we do not know how to do, and where we feel powerless.
And we are here to be proud to do it by ourselves. In the majority of cases, we leave with our creation at the end!
Make your own projects
The Sharpened is also a place to make your own projects in wood, sewing, leather. You’ll find a lot of tools and machines, fifteen big tables, and a lot of coffee and tea.
You feel like doing a project, but do not know where to start? The workshop manager is there to accompany you, and realize a project together, from design to finishing.
And if you need it, you will find there all the materials you need, that you pay by the unit (1 square foot for the wood, 30mL for the painting, a screw for … the screws!)
Have the team build a custom project
Need a specialist to carry out all or part of a project?
The team behind les Affûtés (those known as “Sharpeners”), specialized in woodwork, sewing and repair, realizes many projects, whether for people or structures.
Like everything else we do, we want to:
- do as simple and strong as possible.
- be transparent about the costs, to allow you to decide
- be deeply honest. If it’s not worth repairing a project, we’ll tell you.
Our battle
The project of les Affûtés is born from the fusion of two desires:
- fight against the programmed obsolescence of quickly bought, quickly thrown away objects
- give or give back to each of us the pride of knowing how to do it by ourselves.
Everything we do is organized around this battle.
And we are proud to have chosen the status that goes with this battle: B Corp. The B Corps are projects, like les Affûtés, who think that we can use the Inc status to achieve beautiful things, and put our mission before our profit.
Join our community
Arnaud Clermonte- Magda Hechema
- Sheila Crawford
- Frances Hudon
- Marc-André Cright
- Diane Labelle
- Johanne Charette
- Me
- David Hincks
- Florie Lambrey
- Catherine Westgate
- Pi Erre
- Gerry Bogastors
- Laura Nathalie Ouimette
- Annaïg Bout'Loup
- Lory St-Laurent
- Sylviane Gagnon
- Sylvie Berthiaume
- Brigitte Laffont
- Alice Akka
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