Our online furniture making course mirrors the curriculum of Designer Maker students and is designed to elevate your woodworking skills to the standards of fine furniture craftsmanship. Through detailed online woodworking tutorials, you’ll complete a range of projects while mastering essential techniques.
Tool Preparation — Start with a comprehensive guide to sharpening hand planes and chisels, ensuring precision in every project.
Shaping & Basic Joinery — Refine your planing and shaping skills using a hand plane and spokeshave, and hone precise chisel work to meet exact dimensions.
Advanced Joinery Techniques — Strengthen your joinery skills with exercises for wedged tenons, half-blind dovetails, castle joints, and more. You’ll also learn to hand-cut perfect dovetails.
Decorative & Finishing Techniques — Add aesthetic value with relief carving for decorative elements. Explore surface treatments like fuming and ebonizing to create striking finishes.
Furniture Projects — Apply your skills to functional furniture, such as crafting a dovetailed box or constructing a side table using classic joints like bridle and half-lap joints. You’ll also build a wall cabinet, learning to fit a handmade frame-and-panel door, and making a veneered back panel.
Advanced Projects — As you progress, tackle more advanced techniques, such as the Tri Table, combining laminating, veneering, and marquetry. In the Bedside Chest on Stand project, you’ll create a piston-fitted drawer with half-blind dovetail fronts.
Each project includes detailed drawings and process lists. Perfect for part-time hobbyists, this online woodworking course offers a thorough education in fine furniture making.
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