Furniture Making Plan

Make a Cabinet Project in native elm

• Instructions for making mortise and tenon joints and dovetail carcass joints

• Build own furniture, Furniture making frame and panel

• Book-matched fielded panels - vertical stiles and horizontal rails are jointed together in a framework, grooved on their inside edges.

• During the stage when the frame joints are brought together, panels are trapped to form the back and sides of the cabinet.

• Danish oil finish

• Dutch Elm disease has killed many trees but left the wood undamaged

• Wood from an elm tree died from natural causes gives environmentally friendly woodwork

 

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Cabinetmaking a foundation course

the new furniture making course book by John Bullar, published by the Guild of Master Craftsman Publications