Carpentry: Building Furniture with Hand Tools
Furniture completion
A course by Israel Martín , Designer and Carpenter
About the video: Furniture completion
Overview
“You are about to finish your furniture! I will show you the last adjustments to finish the piece: I will give a finishing brush and I will place a simple back. ”
In this video lesson Israel Martín addresses the topic: Furniture completion, which is part of the Domestika online course: Carpentry: Building Furniture with Hand Tools. Learn how to create furniture out of wood with your own hands, from selecting material to the final touches.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finishing our Piece In this unit, we'll add some finishing touches to our furniture. Our drawer's almost finished. It's just missing the handle. The frame is almost finished. We have our back panel right here. The back panel was oversized so I planed it to make it fit perfectly into the space. I've left some room on each side because the back panel tends to budge to the sides. We have relatively low humidity in this place, so I left some room for it to expand. I also made some holes with the brace like the ones we did to hold the drawer bottom. I've prepared these cardboards that will give ...”
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Course summary for: Carpentry: Building Furniture with Hand Tools
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Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Woodworking
Israel Martín
A course by Israel Martín
Israel Martín began making wood creations more than 20 years ago starting with small artisan pieces and furniture for his own house. Over the past 8 years he has specialized in the creation of pieces with hand tools.
Israel is a largely self-taught carpenter who has completed brief training sessions with industry names such as furniture maker Garrett Hack. He has also participated in organizing events in Madrid dedicated to wood like "Lignorium", with the aim of familiarizing people with the trade and his own work. His work has been featured in top English-language carpentry magazines such as Fine Woodworking, Australian Wood Review, and Furniture and Cabinet Making Magazine.
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