Building your own kitchen cabinets can be a cost-effective way to get custom cabinets at bargain prices. Plus it is an extremely fun and rewarding pursuit. In this 5-day course, we will teach you how to build kitchen cabinets with a few tools. No need for expensive equipment.

Using a combination of instructor demonstration and hands-on practice, students in this class will experience the many ways to bend wood. Students will also learn how to make different types of forms, how to build a simple steam box, and will build a trammel for their routers. We will discuss clamping, shaping, and joining curved parts. Students are encouraged to bring ideas or specific components they’d like to create during class, ensuring a personalized, project-focused experience. With a maximum of 8 students, you'll receive individualized instruction in a fully equipped woodworking college.

We will learn a variety of joints, their strengths and weaknesses and how to implement them into furniture making and design. We will first construct a simple box to store all of our new sample joints then get right into the art and technique of wood joinery. This will be a combination of hand tool and machine joinery techniques.