Description:

Days 1 & 2: There are several key skills in hand tool joinery that will be taught in these sessions: accurate sawing, making v-cuts, chopping and paring chisel work along with accurate layout techniques. These skills will be applied to making several different lap joints. 

Day 3: Mortise-tenon joinery is the fundamental joint of table, dresser and chair construction. This session will teach blind and through MT joints and demonstrate wedged tenon and drawbore joints.

Day 4: Dovetails are the classic hand tool joint for drawers, casework and decorative applications. You will learn to make through and half-blind dovetails.