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Introduction
Good joinery is essential to building furniture and good joinery can be done completely by hand. Traditional techniques for cutting dovetails, mortice and tenons can be as fast as using power tools when making single pieces of furniture. Traditional joinery also depends on a thorough understanding of the joints, how the joints work and choosing the best joints for the parts of furniture.
Traditional craftsmen achieved remarkable efficiency by developing good tool technique, good tool maintenance, slaving tools (using paired chisels and plow planes for example), using preset marking gauges, and using story sticks to record both piece and joinery dimensions.
Precision sawing, precision with chisels are key to this class and we focus on developing those skills. You’ll learn how to cut to a line and to precisely chop and pare shoulders. We introduce the joinery planes - shoulder, router and plow planes.
Class Description
The skills you'll learn include:
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Hand saws - precision sawing, matching the saw to the task, saw maintenance and sharpening
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Chisels - precision paring, chopping mortices with a mortice chisel, chisel maintenance and sharpening
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Working with Joinery Planes - shoulder, router and plow planes
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Joinery - geometry, mechanical strength, joinery choices, layout and markup
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Dovetails - through and half blind, laying out multiple dovetails
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Mortice and tenon joinery - draw bored, haunched, wedged through tenons, and tusked through tenons
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Frame and Panel door and carcass construction
Tools:
The School's workbenches and teaching tools provide high quality hand tools for all the activities in this class. If you have started to build your own kit of hand tools please feel free to bring them along.
More about this class
Prerequisites
This class should not be your first time working with hand tools. We designed the class for students who have taken Jim’s Hand Tool Heaven class or the Hand Saw Essentials and Hand Plane Essentials classes in our Basic Of Woodworking program.
However if you have self studied and completed the projects in Jim Tolpin's "The New Traditional Woodworker" or have taken hand tool classes elsewhere then this will be a great class for you.
Class Information and Registration
Class starts at 9:00am on the first day.
Please read our What to Expect page for general information about the School.
Please also read our Registration Policy.
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Class size: |
10 |
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Cost: |
$675 |
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Materials Charge: |
$35 |
Coming Classes:
When you click on the Register link you will be able to register for the class or, if the class is full, sign up for the wait list.
