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This class teaches techniques with skill-based practice in handmade joinery. Students will learn to select joints, lay them out, and cut them accurately using various Western and Eastern handtools rather than machine-based methods. Along with learning about and making a wide variety of joints, you will also improve your layout skills, enhance your measuring and accuracy, and better understand joint selection and wood behaviour.
This 5-night class also covers sharpening your chisels and hand plane, setting up and using hand planes for lumber, selection and layout of finger joints with measuring & marking tools, hand-cutting finger joints & rabbet joints, and how to recover from joinery mistakes.
MATERIALS: Various hardwoods (included)
TOOLS: Hand planes, chisels, handsaws, router plane, rabbet plane, and bandsaw
ACTIVITIES: several joinery exercises, to make a tea tray
LEVEL: Basic Skills
PREREQUISITES: None (open to beginners)
DURATION: 17.5 hours (5 sessions)
This class teaches techniques with skill-based practice in handmade joinery. Students will learn to select joints, lay them out, and cut them accurately using various Western and Eastern handtools rather than machine-based methods. Along with learning about and making a wide variety of joints, you will also improve your layout skills, enhance your measuring and accuracy, and better understand joint selection and wood behaviour.
This 5-night class also covers sharpening your chisels and hand plane, setting up and using hand planes for lumber, selection and layout of finger joints with measuring & marking tools, hand-cutting finger joints & rabbet joints, and how to recover from joinery mistakes.
MATERIALS: Various hardwoods (included)
TOOLS: Hand planes, chisels, handsaws, router plane, rabbet plane, and bandsaw
ACTIVITIES: several joinery exercises, to make a tea tray
LEVEL: Basic Skills
PREREQUISITES: None (open to beginners)
DURATION: 17.5 hours (5 sessions)
