Making Wooden Furniture with Traditional Joinery
Marking Out and Cutting Mortice and Tenon Joinery 1
A course by Sandy Buchanan , Furniture Maker and Sculptor
About the video: Marking Out and Cutting Mortice and Tenon Joinery 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will briefly introduce the workbench's characteristics to provide a flat and stable platform that will allow you to do precise and safe work. Also, I will show you other alternatives if you don't have access to a workbench. Then, I will continue showing you how to choose the orientation of each component and mark them, using the "carpenter's triangle" for reference. Next, I will show you how to roughly mark out all the different joinery on each component to prevent mistakes and establish measurements. ”
In this video lesson Sandy Buchanan addresses the topic: Marking Out and Cutting Mortice and Tenon Joinery 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Making Wooden Furniture with Traditional Joinery. Explore traditional woodworking techniques to create a stylish and contemporary piece of furniture with a minimalist feel.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will be taking you through laying out cutting and fitting the mortise and tenon joinery for the base of our store. The next part of this course, you will need some way to hold the timber while you're working on it. This is my workbench. a workbench provides a nice, flat, stable platform to allow you to do precise work. but also safe for it. Let me run you through a few of the features. You will need something that allows you to clamp your work in a vertical orientation, This is good. If you want to do saw cuts, You'll also need some way of registering your work on the flat...”
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Course summary for: Making Wooden Furniture with Traditional Joinery
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Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Woodworking
Sandy Buchanan
A course by Sandy Buchanan
Sandy, or Sand to his friends and family, is a bespoke furniture designer and maker based in Beckenham, London. Prior to setting up his workshop, Sandy had a 10-year career in the Oil & Gas E&P sector, working around the world as a geoscientist. He holds a bachelor's and master’s degree in geoscience.
After several redundancies, a general dislike for big corporate politics, and a growing unease about the sector, Sandy turned to making and crafting in the pursuit of meaningful work. His work is influenced by his childhood growing up in Hong Kong, the Chinese and Japanese appreciation and heritage of woodworking, and his choice of material. His pieces are produced skillfully and considerately, and are created to be used, allowing the beauty of nature to be enjoyed.
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