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J.D. Lohr Advanced Joinery 201 Course Syllabus
WHY
WE CHOSE MY ACCESSORY TABLE FOR THE ADVANCED JOINERY CLASS
Arts
and Crafts design sensibility aside, no advanced joinery course would be
complete without the inclusion of a unit on dovetail joinery. What you will
learn in way of dovetailing is first how to layout and accurately hand-cut the
two dovetail joints that are typically used to attach the top rail of most
furniture projects that have drawers or doors. Following this, we will
move on to typical router dovetail jig set-up and execution for drawers and
carcasses. These jigs can be difficult to understand and fine tune but they are
well worth the time it takes to learn how to use them properly.
Greene and Greene style bread board ends with contrasting splines and decorative but functional expansion plugs are a joy to behold and as you know, these details abound in most of my casework and table designs. The execution of four matching Greene and Greene style breadboards is only within the realm of more experienced non-professional as well as professional woodworkers. Rob, Eoin and I will teach you how to master these joints each and every time you attempt them. There really is no room for sloppy workmanship here so without doubt, these fabrication techniques most definitely fall within the domain of an advanced joinery course.
As most of you know, there’s no store-bought hardware in Jeffry Lohr’s furniture! All my door and drawer pulls are of my own fabrication. You’ll learn all the steps necessary to effectively and accurately fabricate intricately detailed and elegant pulls for just about any project you care to think of.
You’ve studied with me in
the past, so you know just how important is the development and creation of the
many jigs and fixtures that are used in the Lohr Woodworking shop. The Practical
Woodworking course only gave you a glimpse of the methods and devices I have
developed over the years to make work flow smoothly and save time. My jigs
increase accuracy exponentially but more importantly, they make procedures safe
and infinitely repeatable.
How we will pull this all off in only 6 days of intensive
instruction.
I think you would agree that there was very little if any down time
in your experience here in taking the Practical Woodworking 101 Course.
This course will be run at the high level of intensity. In fact it is our
mission in the pilot running of this course that is currently scheduled for 3
runs of this class in 2010 to hone it to perfection. It will be fun but we
can tell you in advance that we will really need to hit the ground running on day one of the course and keep up
that pace throughout the week.
As I explained in the introduction page to this course, except for a
brief review of machine safety procedures, I will be working on the assumption
that you remember how to prepare and accurately cut stock to size from rough cut
boards, as I showed you in Practical Woodworking 101. We have so many joints to
cut for this accessory table that the only way we can complete this project
within the time available and at the same time have you understand and retain
the relevant principles of each technique, is to have your project material
already milled for you in advance of your arrival on day one. Please
understand that this does not in any way make this a kit-course. You have
already learned how to do this once, and I don’t want to waste your time by
covering this ground again when we have so little time. We have strict
requirements for materials that must be adhered to for structural considerations
and there simply won’t be the time to have you do this basic work yourself.
Please click here to familiarize yourselves with our lumber provision
arrangements as related to your enrollment cost for this Advanced Joinery
course.
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