Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

Overview

“What is thinking like a carpenter? This goes far beyond just making good or bad cuts, it is about thinking that our project is fully functional. I will tell you the importance of not basing everything on the numbers. Ten does not exist!”

In this video lesson Patricio Ortega (Maderística) addresses the topic: Thinking Like a Carpenter, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners. Learn the essential steps for designing, planning, and building wooden furniture in your own signature style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Think like a carpenter In this lesson we will review what we call thinking like a carpenter. Experience indicates or teaches you in some way that much more important than the numbers is another order of things. For example, imagine a table and by design, this leg is 75 cm. You take the material, your saw, and cut it. First cut, perfect, 75 cm exactly, you are proud of your work, fantastic. Second cut, 74.95 cm. Already a minimal error, but it exists. Third cut, 75.02 cm. Fourth cut, 75 cm. Two good legs and two bad legs, but the table is bad because it wobbles. You can even have three legs ...”

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Course summary for: Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 117011 students
• 5 units
• 27 lessons (5h 18m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking