Overview: Build a contemporary chair which can be used singularly in your home, or as the start of a set you finish after the course.

Building this chair you will learn to use the Festool DOMINO system for fast, accurate and strong joints. Plus you will learn a variety of other furniture making skills and techniques including:

• Preparing timber for joinery.
• Making tapered legs.
• Clamping and gluing techniques.
• Domino joints.
• Planing, scraping and sanding to pre-finishing level of quality.
• Using the following tools: Table saw, band-saw, circular saw, mitre saw, router, router table, hand planes, power planes, thicknesser and planer, variety of sanders, panel clamps, squares and marking tools, and more.

Finished Project: The chair you build will be similar to that below. In addition to your selection of timber, there are a variety of design options you can choose from when you come to make yours, like:

• Number and width of back slats.
• Timber or drop in upholstered seat. If you choose an upholstered seat the upholstery is not included, but the making of the seat frame is.

These images are of our construction method example chair. They illustrate the method of assembly with domino tennons. During glue-up all joints are pushed together for a solidly built chair. Additionally, there would be corner blocks, drop in seat frame for upholstering, or solid seat.

You will leave the course with an assembled and finished chair worth around $650-$750 from good furniture makers. Finishing the chair is not included because this is the last and time consuming activity best done back at your own workshop. We will demonstrate finishing techniques and discuss the best finishing products for you to use.

Included: The base course costs includes the following:

• Instruction by Terry Fogarty.
• Use of all power and hand tools at the Ideal Tools Festool Workshop.
• All consumables including dominos, glue, abrasives, etc.

Timber: You will need to select and order your preferred species of timber for the project. We will arrange this for you and have the timber delivered to our workshop in suitable quantities sizes prior to you begin at your first session.

Target Audience: This course is designed to further build up your skills in more complex furniture making and you finish the course with a completed piece of furniture. It is advisable to have completed other less complicated furniture projects prior to tacking this chair course. The Hall Table and Side Table courses are excellent introductions prior to making a chair.

Location and Instructor: The course is conducted at the Ideal Tools Festool Workshop (Williamstown VIC), Click here to read more about our workshop. The course is conducted by Terry Fogarty, an experienced furniture maker and innovative woodworker. Click here to read more about Terry and see samples of his work.

Things to bring: Ensure you are wearing clothing suitable to working in a timber workshop environment. Personal protection equipment (ear-muffs, glasses) is available, but you may wish to bring your own.

Class size: Small - a maximum of 6 participants. Each participant has the use of their own workbench and set of hand-tools, with communal assembly spaces, communal powered tools and machinery, and additional communal hand tools.