Introduction to Furniture Making - Part One: Frame Construction

In addition to the step-by-step guidance, you will receive to fabricate the table, you will be guided to learn:

• How to source and select quality tools for your toolbox,
• Sharpening and the maintenance of hand planes, paring chisels, and cutting edges,
• The considerations of grain direction and aesthetics in selecting components from stock,
• The process of accurately marking out joinery,
• Cutting and fitting both stopped and through mortice & tenons,
• Edge joining boards,
• Sanding, detailing and pre-finishing prior to gluing up,
• Gluing up and clamping techniques,
• Clean up and final assembly,

This course offers the hand tool skills needed to build confidence and understanding to work with timber, with a small class size for individual attention and sharing amongst the group. It covers the foundational knowledge and precision approach that underpins the craft of furniture-making, skills that can be applied to your future workshop projects.