Skills – Veneering & Box Making | Adrian Ferrazzutti

This multi-discipline class will cover a wide array of techniques, all aimed at developing your skills in box making,  veneering and hardware installation.

You’ll also find that your patterning, colour planning, and visual impact skills will also be given an opportunity to flex.  As part of your growth in furniture making,  it is valuable to know how to select colours and patterns so that they support the design idea of furniture pieces.

Taught by Adrian Ferrazzutti, you learn to make shop-sawn veneer using the same technique that Adrian uses to make his decorative veneered Ferrazzutti Boxes that were featured in the FWW Video “Veneered Boxes with a Twist”.

Key Learning Points:

• How to mix veneer and solid wood
• Resawing veneer
• Creating geometric designs with shop-sawn veneer
• Waterfall pattern/grain control, wrapping patterns around corners
• Using  a vacuum pump to press the veneer
• Milling small pieces of wood safely for edging, flawless mitering,
• Precision hardware installation, installing hinges