Dovetailed Cabinet

This course systematically builds 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.

Street Address
The Centre for Fine Woodworking, 465 Wakapuaka Road, RD 1, Nelson 7071 (See Map)
Postal Address
Centre for Fine Woodworking, PO Box 1452, Nelson 7040, New Zealand. E-mail: info@cfw.co.nz, phone: +64 3 545 2674,