Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

Overview

“Finally, I will teach you how to turn your cuts into a piece, you will learn how to identify the characteristics that will help you define them. I will show you how to mark the pieces for later use in an optimal way.”

In this video lesson Patricio Ortega (Maderística) addresses the topic: Selection of Material, Cutting, Identification of Parts and Sanding 3, 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

“Material selection: Identification and sanding The boards are already cut. What we have to do now is transform them into pieces. The difference with a table is that the piece has a specific position in space: up, down, inner side, outer side, front, back. We have not defined that, and for that we have to do a piece by piece analysis, what characteristics do we like or don't like, and what should go on the inner or outer side, up, down, front or back. To mark the pieces we will use a very simple nomenclature, but that will avoid confusion. We will mark only the edges of the pieces, we are no...”

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Course summary for: Furniture Design and Construction for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 117055 students
• 5 units
• 27 lessons (5h 18m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design

• Areas

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