INTRO TO WOODWORK – FLIP LID DOVETAIL BOX – 6 AFTERNOONS

Bookable via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/intro-to-woodwork-flip-lid-dovetail-box-6-afternoons-46/
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Suitable for: Confident beginners
Course length: 6 weeks – afternoons
Dates: See below for individual dates/times
Key tools: Marking tools, hand saws, chisels, hand planes
Project: Flip-lid dovetail box

Details:
An absorbing five-week course for confident beginners and an enjoyable learning experience for anyone with a little woodworking experience. Using a fusion of hardwood and softwood, this five-week course will teach you the fundamentals of woodwork and give you an opportunity to use classic hand tools; brass-backed tenon saws, sharp wood chisels and delicately honed vintage wood planes.

This well-proportioned flip-lidded box is constructed of European redwood using a single dovetail joint at each corner and the fitted hardwood lid is attached to the base by a handmade ‘dowel’ peg hinge. The project will familiarise learners with many classic woodwork techniques and is taught with patience and enthusiasm by Andy Nicholl, who has devised this informative and challenging project.

You will take home a treasure to treasure- and we hope it will enthuse you to learn how to make many handmade woodwork projects in the years to come.

If your keyboard-weary hands have been needing the skill to fulfil and satisfy a yearning desire to create something you can hold, come and join us in our well-equipped and inspiring workshops and discover the wonderful world of woodwork.

Key skills:

• Measuring marking and cutting dovetail joints to make an accurate framed box.
• Planing and shaping a hardwood lid to fit the softwood frame base.
• Making and fitting a hardwood dowel joint to attach the frame base to the lid.