The Doctor is in with a woodworking DVD that challenges your present skills and teaches you new ones.

You’ll follow the process toward the completion of: 2 Three Drawer Chests and a Two Door Cupboard constructed from 2 sheets of cabinet grade Red Oak Plywood and Red Oak Solids.

Will the cabinet designs assure you entry into the International Contemporary Furniture Fair? ……….NO!  But through their design you will be exposed to construction techniques that already have been juried and displayed on the Javitz Convention Center floor.

Because the cabinets are designed to mydefinition of “Transitional Furniture”, you’ll be exposed to a style of combining contemporary materials with traditional icons.

Furnitology 101 uses economic Cabinetmaking tools: the table saw, router, band saw or saber saw, files, rasps, clamps, sanding machines and most importantly eye, ear, and lung safety equipment.  As a  fine woodworking highlight, Furnitology 101, has spindle turning on the wood lathe, along with the layout and construction of the simplest complex curve, the basis for the astonishingly beautiful; cabriole leg.

As we all challenge our woodworking skills, and reach more towards larger case goods such as bedroom suites; thinking of personal cost and the limited availability of quality grade lumber; “solid wood construction” will become more and more difficult to do. The cabinets selected in the DVD Furnitology 101 are intended to expose you to the entire construction process and to help address the future of personal woodworking and furniture design.