Hand and Machine Joinery, New Directions

Hand and Machine Joinery, New Directions will be offered in the second half of the semester and, like Experimenting With Lamination, Clamping and Cutting, will be considered fulfillment of the prerequisite for. Furniture Design and Construction. It will distill the broad array of wood joints that have been used in furniture through centuries into a collection appropriate to contemporary woodworking and modern style. The collection will include perpendicular and angled joints with two, three, and more intersecting members. Different methods for interlocking these members will be demonstrated using machine and hand tools. Students will be given assignments which require the adaption of these interlocking methods to different design circumstances.