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The Mark of a Well-Made Drawer

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The Mark of a Well-Made Drawer


In this 5-day course you will enjoy the experience of crafting and fitting a classic drawer. It is designed for those with at least basic or intermediate experience. This course follows on well from the Introduction to Fine Woodworking course.

Published in 1938 in the Woodworker Magazine, the well-respected maker and prolific author Charles Hayworth wrote, “Perhaps there is nothing which so quickly reveals the quality of a piece of woodwork as the fitting of its drawer”.

Participants will be making a small sample drawer to enable them to explore the finer points
of drawer construction and fitting.

The course will also include:

  • selecting and preparing the stock

  • the sequence for truing the parts in preparation for laying out

  • hand cutting both through and lapped dovetails

  • the approach to gluing up the drawer

  • approaches to drawer slips and bottoms

  • the final fitting of the drawer to a simple carcase box (provided)

  • review of carcass construction

  • correcting faults

  • course notes covering content also included

Course Dates

9th - 13th May 2025

Course Fee

$1800

Tutor

Stuart Faulkner



If you require any further information or would like to enrol, please complete the form below or call (03) 545 2674.

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