FURNITURE MAKING II - Make a Table
Course duration = 5 days
General Course Content
Ideally, students for this course will have attended ‘FURNITURE MAKING I’or the weekend tuning & sharpening course, and will bring with them a well set up basic cabinet-making tool kit, as there will not be any time set aside for preparing tools.
FURNITURE MAKING II looks at the design issues involved in making a side table, including making allowance for timber movement, and then focuses on the principles and techniques used to make a frame or carcass using hand-cut joints, with some use of machines, where appropriate. The table design includes a single long drawer which may either be omitted, or made during ‘FURNITURE MAKING III – Dovetailing - Make a Drawer or Box’
Subjects Covered
The main elements covered will include:
- Working from a drawing and using ‘rods’
- Squaring and marking out and planing component parts
- Cutting carcass dovetails and stopped sliding dovetails
- Laying out and cutting mortice and tenon joints, including double-haunched, secret-haunched & bare-faced
- Tapering legs
- Cutting a moulding by hand and fitting with mitred corners
- Jointing boards to form a top
- Cutting screw pockets by hand
- Glues, gluing sequence and clamping techniques
