Beginning Cabinet Making

We offer this course four times each year, and Beginning Cabinet Making is our most popular course, with places filling up quickly - to avoid disappointment we recommend you plan to enrol three months before the start of the course.

This popular two week introductory course will establish a solid skill base for all aspiring woodworkers and provide the foundation skills for fine cabinetmaking. No prior experience is necessary for this course – many previous students who have been experienced woodworkers have found this course to be highly beneficial.

The course covers the tuning and sharpening of basic handtools and the basics of accurate timber preparation, setting out and cutting a number of basic woodworking joints and assembly.

Participants will also be taken step by step through the safe and efficient use and understanding of the basic woodworking machinery, the tablesaw, bandsaw, jointer and thicknesser.

This course provides the foundations required for all our other courses.

Street Address
The Centre for Fine Woodworking, 465 Wakapuaka Road, RD 1, Nelson 7071 (See Map)
Postal Address
Centre for Fine Woodworking, PO Box 1452, Nelson 7040, New Zealand. E-mail: info@cfw.co.nz, phone: +64 3 545 2674,