Students make an original piece in solid wood. It can be
contemporary or traditional in style, and will incorporate as many of their new skills and techniques.
- Timber identification
- Hand tools identification, maintenance, care and handling
- Machine tools, identification and handling
- Setting out, sawing and marking
- Timber technology
- Bench appliances including marquetry, cutting board, mitre
- box, shooting and stringing boards and scratch stock
- Woodscrew taps and dies
- Cross-grain plugs
- Introduction to veneering
- Joints – rubbed, mortice and tenon, dovetail, mitre, scarfed
- Basic woodturning and carving
- Wood bending
- Chair blocks
- Mouldings and chamfers
