Make a Wall-Mounted Cabinet: Japanese-style traditional hand-tool woodworking

Course overview

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

Working with solid hardwood, the course will cover a range of hand tool woodworking skills, including dovetail joinery, creating drawers without the use of hardware, carcass construction and wood veneering.

The course is led by experienced, 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.

Quiet and methodical by nature, hand tool woodworking can be a very mindful activity, and we hope that you will find this course to be relaxing and fun as well as informative.

At the end of the course, you will take home the cabinet that you have made and will hopefully have the skills and confidence to pursue further woodworking projects and/or attend another of our classes.

Perfect For

  • Those looking to improve existing woodworking skills
  • Anyone interested in traditional craftsmanship

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, creating drawers without the use of hardware, carcass construction, wood veneering and wood finishing techniques, surface preparation and assembly methods and gluing up.

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

For this intermediate woodwork course, we advise that you have previously completed an entry-level woodwork course or have some prior woodwork experience.

All tools and materials are provided. Please wear sturdy closed-toe footwear and clothes 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 courses.

Course Starts in 96 Days

Tue 15 September 2026

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