Hi Andy,
I think you have to ring up and ask when they are next doing a course, here's a link about it...
http://www.eckold.co.uk/pdfs/shaping-hand-out-5.pdf.
I think one of the members on this site has been on it Redoxide if my memory is correct.
Let me know what Eckold say, might come along.
I don't know anyone local who's a proper panel maker, that's not to say there aren't any, it's just they keep quiet and don't seem to want to pass on much help, that's one of the causes of this declining artform
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If you want to call by sometime to my workshop PM me, I'll show what I get up to.