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    • Weekend Courses
      • Sharpening & Tuning Hand Tools
      • Cabinetmaking Fundamentals
      • Wood Machining
      • Making and Fitting a Dovetailed Drawer
    • 3-5 DAY COURSES by Skill
      • SKILLS WEEK – Sharpening & Essential Cabinet Making Hand Skills
      • JOINTS WEEK – Making a Table
      • DRAWER WEEKEND – Making and Fitting a Dovetailed Drawer
      • ANTIQUE FURNITURE RESTORATION TECHNIQUES
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      • VENEERING – Making a Games Board
      • LAMINATING – Making a Box with a Curved Lid
      • SHAPING A SEAT – Making a Bar Stool
      • FITTING LOCKS & HINGES – Making a Decorative Box
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      • Project – Making a Bar Stool
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I have always rather hankered after a proper tool chest, the sort that an 18th-century journeyman might have made as an apprentice and used to carry the valuable tools of his trade from job to job on a daily basis.

In my case it would, of course, be a bit of an indulgence as I’m not an itinerant cabinetmaker, and working from a tool chest is not really as practical as working from tool racks above the bench.

A big, heavy tool chest would normally sit on the floor, and retrieving tools from it might just exacerbate that niggly lower back pain that seems to accompany being a
cabinetmaker of a certain age!

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