Woodworking Techniques for Dovetail Joinery
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Learn woodworking techniques to cut, sand, and assemble wooden pieces with classic dovetail joints
If experience has taught Helen Welch anything, it is that a few good tools and a solid technique will save your day. She started her career as a joiner and later as a guitar maker. But her true passion has always been passing on her extensive knowledge of her trade to students. Thus, in 2013 Helen founded the London School of Furniture, where she has taught ever since.
Now, in this online course, she teaches you a classic woodworking tactic – the dovetail. They are used to create strong, attractive joints for a range of items, including boxes, cabinets, and drawers. The technique is a mark of quality and skill of the maker. As a tool lover at heart, Helen takes you through all the materials you’ll need to get started and how to use them before crafting your dovetailed box. Once you’ve mastered the method, you can bring it to your other furniture-making endeavors!
To start this course, get to know a bit about your teacher. Helen Welch has decades of experience working as a woodworker, a guitar maker, and an educator. She is passionate about passing on her skills and knowledge – and has opened her own furniture-making school in her native London.
Next, Helen introduces you to the final project – which will be a dovetailed box. She will take you through all the essential materials you need to pull it off, as well as best practices for cutting dovetails and groves.
Then it’s time for your box to start taking shape. You create 4 dovetail parts, sand them off and get assembling. Helen shows you how to make a lid that fits and how to apply the finish to top it off.
Finally, Helen expands on the dovetail technique and explains other ways you can use it in furniture making. You look at a cabinet carcass, examine the construction of its drawers, and then illustrate how scaling up your dovetails can expand your creative possibilities.
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