Dovetailed Cabinet

Length: 5 weeks
Dates: 16 Feb (Tues) - 19th March (4 weeks 4 days)
Fees: $3925, GST included
Non-refundable deposit: $600
Material costs: $150 - $600 depending on choice of project and materials.
Prerequisite: Beginning Cabinet Making or similar experience.

This course builds systematically on skills developed in Beginning Cabinet Making. Students will explore scale and proportion before determining the final size and appearance of a dovetailed chest with a single drawer. Traditional dovetailing and drawer making will be given special emphasis, thereby fostering the particular accuracy and skills required for these to be successful. This will provide a new benchmark for their approach to fine woodworking.

As well as dovetails, students will be introduced to mortise and tenon joinery, dowel construction, half-laps and other joints appropriate to their projects, enabling them to practice, hone and expand on the skills previously developed. More advanced methods of machining and procedures for maintenance and set-up will be introduced. Students will also learn the basics of wood technology. This will include information on milling, drying and storing of timber, timber selection and identification, and understanding the difficulties that wood movement creates and common solutions to the problem.