Federal hall cabinet

August 11 - 15, 2025

This cabinet is a great place to throw your keys when you get home. Narrow yet elegant with attractive Federal features. In this class you will hand cut dovetails, cut and fit mortise and tenon construction on the doors. You will flair a continuous case side and learn how to veneer both drawer fronts and door panels. We will send you a material and tool list so you can provide your own tools and material. We will supply lunch.

Cost: $1450

This class has been a proven class

We have offered this class numerous time before with proven success

This piece will fit in many different places

This piece could be a hall cabinet or a server in a dining room, or as a cabinet in a bedroom. Too much joinery for such a little piece

Learn to flair a French foot on a solid case side

During this week long class you will learn many period furniture joinery techniques to take home to use on countless future projects.

Dovetailed case construction

With operating a 100 year plus family business of building and restoring period furniture in the lower Shenandoah valley we have many family secrets of time and material saving techniques to share.

Learn to veneer a drawer front and door panels

You will learn how to veneer a drawer front and two door panels in class. This alone will be worth the class.

Learn the In's and Out's of Sliding Dovetails

Learn to veneer a drawer front and door panels

You will cut and fit a sliding dovetail. Notice the bevel on one side. A free secret with many more to offer.

Build a drawer with cockbeading

Learn the process we use to build a drawer. Many time saving methods to help simplify the layout and execution of an ageless method of holding many pieces of wood together.

Mortise and tenon construction

Build a drawer with cockbeading

NO DOWELS

Mortise and tenon door construction with a veneer panel captured in frame construction that will last generations.