Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

Overview

“Are you ready to get down to business? We are going to start with the cutting, identification and sanding of each of the pieces of the project! I will show you how to start making the cutting lines to optimize the material. You will learn how to understand and arrange each of your pieces.”

In this video lesson Patricio Ortega (Maderística) addresses the topic: Selection of Material, Cutting, Identification of Parts and Sanding 1, 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

“In this lesson we will make the cut, identification and sanding of each of the pieces of our project. Well, the first thing I do before making the cuts is to analyze the cut list. The idea is to organize the cuts to make a better use of the material. For example, we are going to work on a plate that is 2.48. by 1.22. So what we do is organize these cuts, these pieces sizes, to distribute them in the best way possible. Whenever you do this, start with the bigger pieces, the ones we place on top of the board. In this case, if you look, it would be these 79mm, which are the cover and the base,...”

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Course summary for: Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 117891 students
• 5 units
• 27 lessons (5h 18m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design

• Areas

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