Kentucky Spirits Cabinet

Class Description:

Cabinetmaking is a wide and varied discipline and it employs all the skills of a furniture maker. Taking notes from makers like Wharton Esherick and James Krenov, we can elevate a cabinet by putting natural materials in their best light and in paying close attention to how different woodgrain interacts in a whole piece.

In this class, we’ll be making a dovetailed case fitted with inset doors and a drawer. Along the way, we’ll use every tool a modern woodshop has to offer. For this exacting work, a router and table saw will get us very close, but we’ll fine tune at the bench with hand tools.

I find cabinetmaking to be among the most rewarding work in the shop. It allows you to stretch your skills and consider the material you’re working with.

Things We’ll Cover:

• Sourcing and working with figured material
• Frame and Panel work
• Resawing
• Design
• Using knife hinges
• Through dovetails with the bandsaw, tablesaw, and by hand
• Side hung drawers
• Making shiplap for back panels

Required Tool List:

• ¼ Trim Router
• ¼ Straight Cutting Bit
• Random orbital sander
• Bench Chisels – ¼, 3/8, ½
• Dovetail Saw
• Rabbet or shoulder plane
• Marking gauge
• Marking knife
• Combination Square
• Tape Measure
• Bench ruler
• Pencils
• Safety Glasses
• Hearing protection

All material costs and daily lunches are included in the course fee at Pine Croft.