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.

• 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

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