Make a Dovetailed Tool Tote: 11-Week Intermediate Course

Course overview

A great way to improve existing woodworking skills, in this course you will use traditional hand tool techniques to create an attractive and useful tool carrying tote from sustainably sourced solid hardwoods. In a relaxed, fun and supportive learning environment, you will master hand-cut dovetail and mortise and tenon joints and explore a variety of additional techniques, including routing grooves and rebates and wood veneering.  

This carpentry course is led by an experienced, qualified tutor and is held in the fully-equipped workshops of the renowned Rycotewood Furniture Centre.  

Places are limited to a maximum of eight learners, and all materials and equipment are provided 

This course runs term time only. 

 

The core skills taught during this course are:  

Foundational Techniques: including accurate measuring and marking, timber selection and preparation, safe tool handling and maintenance and basic joinery principles. 

Hand tool techniques: using chisels, hand saws, bench planes, mallets, hammers and more.  

Specialised Skills: such as creating dovetail joints, safely using a table-mounted power router, wood finishing techniques, surface preparation and assembly methods and glueing up. 

Our experienced tutor will provide group demonstrations and individual instruction, guidance and mentoring within a supportive learning environment.  

Perfect for those looking to improve existing skills by exploring a variety of traditional hand-tool woodworking techniques. 

For this intermediate woodwork course, we advise you to have previously completed an entry-level woodwork course. 

All tools and materials are provided.  

Please wear stout closed footwear and clothes that you don’t mind getting covered in sawdust.  

There are aprons, goggles, and ear defenders in the workshop that you are able to use—but feel free to bring your own PPE if you prefer. It can get quite noisy at times. 

On completion of the course, you will be ready to pursue your own DIY projects and/or progress to one of our other intermediate or advanced courses.

Course Starts in 237 Days

Thu 8 January 2026

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