Single Drawer Side Table

In this class you’ll use the basic skills that you learned in the earlier foundations classes to make a classic, single drawer side table. You’ll use mortise and tenon joinery to make the table base. You’ll use through dovetails, half-blind dovetails, and grooves to make the drawer. You’ll use your hand plane to refine the tapers of the legs, fit the drawer to the opening, and prepare the surfaces of the individual parts for finishing. You’ll also be introduced to the bandsaw – a valuable addition to the small workshop.

While there are no required prerequisites, this class does combine the fundamental skills learned and practiced in the previous Foundations classes. As such, due to the limited time permitted, the individual skills will not be covered in detail in this class. Therefore, if you are a complete beginner, or are not at least somewhat confident in your ability to use hand saws and chisels, and make dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery with hand tools, we recommend taking the classes covering these individual skills before attempting to take this class, as the pace of this class will be somewhat faster than earlier classes in this series.

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