Basic & Advanced Joinery for Tables and Case Pieces with Will Neptune

In their most basic form, tables are nothing more than four legs and four rails held together with tenons and case pieces are just dove tailed boxes with shelves or drawer frames inside. Having good sound techniques for building these basic pieces gives you good strategies for dealing with more complex variations on the basic forms. Adding a drawer to a table involves new technical problems. Adding multiple drawers, either side by side or stacked vertically, complicates construction even more! And angled or curved parts go one step further. Similar issues appear in case work as the form becomes more complex. The trick is to recognize more complex problems as the extension of solutions used in simpler examples.
In this hands-on class we will build mock ups of the typical joinery problems found in most tables and case pieces. Using a combination of hand and power tools, each student will make several mock ups and learn to convert simple examples into more complex ones. These samples will be a physical record that will be an invaluable reference for future work.
We cannot expect to build an entire project in one weekend but you can learn a systematic approach to solve many common joinery problems. For those of you who have not taken a class with Will you really owe it to yourself. You will learn way more than you ever thought possible! Tuition $245.00 plus materials

Section 101009A: Saturday & Sunday, October 10 & 11, 9:30am - 5:00pm

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