Basic Furniture Making Techniques for the Beginner and Novice Woodworker
Woodworking with basic furniture making techniques
Working with wood is not as daunting as it may seem. Basically, woodworking projects begin at using your skill of constructing wood joints to make boxes. Boxes are then placed in order, one after another to produce a furniture piece. For instance, a chest of drawers has the carcass (big box) then drawers are added, separated by rails. Moldings are then added to create flare.
Making boxes is good practice for woodworkers who are interested in developing new skills. Try different types of boxes such as jewelry, pencil or a small box for holding business cards. Use different joinery techniques (finger joints, lock miter and so on). You could also add flare to a simple box by adding inlay to it or maybe combine different types of wood to make a box. These projects can be completed without the time and expense commitment of the bigger woodworking projects.
Learn the art of making boxes.
Joinery techniques used when joining separate pieces of wood together involve the use of different types of joints such as the mortise and tenon, rabbit joint, lock miters, dado joints or dovetail joints. These are a few types of wood joinery techniques that when mastered will put you on the road to becoming a highly skilled woodworker.
I'd like to talk about different types of joinery techniques, there purpose, construction and some general anatomy. Also, I'd like to share a few furniture making tips. Feel free to add tips of you're own in the comments area.
The key to making a piece of furniture or cabinets that will last the test of time is in the assembly of tight fitting joints. The best way to create tight joints consistently is by learning to use wood shop jigs. Joinery is a craft in itself that locks all the separate parts of wood together. If done properly, the joints you construct will work in conjunction with the natural properties of the wood (expansion and contraction).
Using butt joints with nails, staples and glue will work for a while when throwing together a bookcase or storage cabinet but in a couple of years they will start to fall apart. The best joinery techniques involve shaping the mating parts into interlocking joints and strengthening the unification of parts with glue, most of which can be accomplished with the use of a table saw and dado blades or a router and a few router bits.
For the new participant in woodwork there is an excitement of learning new skills and practicing new techniques, acquiring new tools and learning how to use them. You will gain the energy required to focus your attention on basic furniture constructing from enthusiasm.
One of the brutal yet effective ways that woodworking teaches us is this... You don't know how well you have performed one step until you are halfway through the following step.
Keep this in mind, basic furniture making begi
Working with wood is not as daunting as it may seem. Basically, woodworking projects begin at using your skill of constructing wood joints to make boxes. Boxes are then placed in order, one after another to produce a furniture piece. For instance, a chest of drawers has the carcass (big box) then drawers are added, separated by rails. Moldings are then added to create flare.
Making boxes is good practice for woodworkers who are interested in developing new skills. Try different types of boxes such as jewelry, pencil or a small box for holding business cards. Use different joinery techniques (finger joints, lock miter and so on). You could also add flare to a simple box by adding inlay to it or maybe combine different types of wood to make a box. These projects can be completed without the time and expense commitment of the bigger woodworking projects.
Learn the art of making boxes.
Joinery techniques used when joining separate pieces of wood together involve the use of different types of joints such as the mortise and tenon, rabbit joint, lock miters, dado joints or dovetail joints. These are a few types of wood joinery techniques that when mastered will put you on the road to becoming a highly skilled woodworker.
I'd like to talk about different types of joinery techniques, there purpose, construction and some general anatomy. Also, I'd like to share a few furniture making tips. Feel free to add tips of you're own in the comments area.
The key to making a piece of furniture or cabinets that will last the test of time is in the assembly of tight fitting joints. The best way to create tight joints consistently is by learning to use wood shop jigs. Joinery is a craft in itself that locks all the separate parts of wood together. If done properly, the joints you construct will work in conjunction with the natural properties of the wood (expansion and contraction).
Using butt joints with nails, staples and glue will work for a while when throwing together a bookcase or storage cabinet but in a couple of years they will start to fall apart. The best joinery techniques involve shaping the mating parts into interlocking joints and strengthening the unification of parts with glue, most of which can be accomplished with the use of a table saw and dado blades or a router and a few router bits.
For the new participant in woodwork there is an excitement of learning new skills and practicing new techniques, acquiring new tools and learning how to use them. You will gain the energy required to focus your attention on basic furniture constructing from enthusiasm.
One of the brutal yet effective ways that woodworking teaches us is this... You don't know how well you have performed one step until you are halfway through the following step.
Keep this in mind, basic furniture making begi
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