Wood Machining
A Practical Introduction
Duration: 3 days
Location: Little Surrenden Workshops
Prerequisites: Students registering for this course must have completed at least Cabinet Making Parts One and Two.
General Course Content
This course has been designed for students who own, or are contemplating
the purchase of woodworking machinery and wish to produce accurately machined
wooden components safely and economically.
Topic for each machine - HEALTH & SAFETY, MAINTENANCE, APPRAISAL, COST, SAFE OPERATION, TOOLING, JIGS, DUST EXTRACTION.
Machines:
- Circular Saw: Ripping, cross-cutting, cutting shoulders, rebates and grooves, mitres, panel raising.
- Radial Arm Saw: Repeat cross-cutting, mitres.
- Planer/ Thicknesser: Planing timber that is bowed, cupped or in wind, surface planing, thicknessing.
- Band Saw: Ripping, cross-cutting, cutting tenons, triangular sections, circles, making veneers and string-lines.
- Chisel Morticer: Stopped, through and haunched mortices.
- Spindle Moulder Making mouldings, grooves and rebates.
- Biscuit Joiner: Carcase and frame construction.
Every student will have the opportunity to use each machine with supervision to saw and plane timber to size, make mortise and tenons, joint timber and run a moulding in order to make the components for a joint stool. If time allows, the components will be assembled.
Materials: Timber and manufactured board will be provided for this course and included in the course fee.
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