Overview: Build a contemporary hall table which you will be proud to show off in your home or office.

Building this hall table 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 panels and table tops.
• Breadboard ends.
• Making tapered legs.
• Clamping and gluing techniques.
• Through domino joins or dovetail 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 hall table 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:

• Position and number of drawers.
• Through domino or dovetail drawer construction.
• Hand made drawer pull or supply your own.
• Side of breadboard ends on the table top.
• Bottom shelf.

You will leave the course with an assembled hall table worth over $1,300 from good furniture makers. Finishing the hall table is not included because this is the last and most time consuming activity best done back at your own workshop. But we will demonstrate the 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. Please note: Finishing products not included as this is not in scope.

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 beginning your first session.

Target Audience: This course is designed to build up your skills in furniture making and you finish the course with a completed piece of furniture. Perfect for aspiring woodworkers who grasp the fundamentals of woodworking, but wish to apply these principals (even for the first time) in a practical way under the guidance of a professional woodworker.

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.