Make a Wall-Mounted Cabinet: 11-Week Intermediate Course

Course overview

A great way to enhance your existing woodworking skills and explore traditional cabinet-making techniques in this eleven-week intermediate carpentry course. Using a range of hand tools and joinery techniques, students will create an elegant wall-mounted cabinet, perfect for storing and displaying precious small objects.  

You will learn dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery, how to create drawers without the use of hardware, frame and panel door construction and wood veneering. 

The course is led by experienced and qualified tutor Freddie Corbyn 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 are:  

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

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

Specialised Skills: such as dovetail joints, creating drawers without hardware, frame and panel door construction, wood veneering and wood finishing techniques, surface preparation, 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 courses. 

All tools and materials you need are provided.  

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

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 225 Days

Thu 8 January 2026

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