John Lloyd - Fine Cabinet Making and Antique Furniture Restoration

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Furniture Making Courses

Cabinet making skills and techniques are not only used in the making of furniture, they are also a prerequisite for anything other than very basic furniture restoration.

Our Courses concentrate on the traditional techniques used to create fine furniture in past centuries. This is particularly relevant when restoring antique furniture, it is also critical if you wish to make furniture predominantly by hand. Particular attention is paid to tuning tools and developing hand skills.

Furniture Making Part I - Sharpening & Tuning of Hand Tools & Cabinet-Making Skills for Beginners

Designed as a solid grounding in Cabinet Making skills for the complete beginner or for the woodworker with some experience who wants to get back to basics. Sharpening and tuning of hand tools is a critical part of this course and enables the production of cabinet work of the highest standard


Furniture Making Part II - Make a Table

Ideal for students who have attended the ‘Furniture Making Part I’ course. This course focuses on developing and refining hand skills and covers many techniques and joints required in making furniture, including mortice and tenons and carcass dovetails.


Furniture Making Part III - Make a Dovetailed Drawer or Box

Designed to follow on from Part II but may be taken as a separate course. This course focuses on developing and refining hand skills and covers hand cut dovetails, moulded drawer slips, lock and escutcheon fitting.


Furniture Making Part IV - Make a Chair

Suitable for students who have attended the ‘Furniture Making Part I’ course. Chair making is probably one of the more challenging aspects of furniture making because of all of the curves and angles involved. Learn to lay out a seat plan and make templates for various components; cut angled mortice & tenon joints; make shaped back legs and lay out / cut joints for the back.