Making Wooden Furniture with Traditional Joinery
DIY Dowel Making
A course by Sandy Buchanan , Furniture Maker and Sculptor
About the video: DIY Dowel Making
Overview
“Now, I will show you how to create homemade dowels if you don't want to buy them. ”
In this video lesson Sandy Buchanan addresses the topic: DIY Dowel Making, 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
“ DIY Dowel Making In this lesson, I'll take you through the process of making your own dowels. To make your own dowels, there are a few tools you will need. First, let's look at why you might want to do that. In my work, making my own dowels is the only way that I can get the timber that I've used in a piece to match. The only other way to buy in dowels is through commercial sources where the timber may have come from abroad, it may be a different species, and it doesn't align with what I would like in my project. For you though, it's a good way of using smaller pieces of leftover timber f...”
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Course summary for: Making Wooden Furniture with Traditional Joinery
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Category
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Areas
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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