L’apprenti.e 2 EN • Joinery and sheet goods
Building a side table
This course is a continuation of L’apprenti.e 1. Its aim is to build upon what you’ve already learned about working with machines and teach you how to make basic woodworking joinery. You will revisit the main woodworking machines for dimensioning raw wood, then shape solid wood assemblies using the miter saw (cross-lap joinery) and the DOMINO cutter (Festool).
You’ll also discover techniques for working with wood-derived products (plywood), such as cutting on machines and cutting joinery like rebates (on the router table) or using the biscuit jointer. To put the learning material into practice, each participant will build a small accent table from solid wood and birch plywood.
Practical course
- Presentations and demonstrations by the teacher
- Technical exercises and making of an object/piece of furniture by the participants
Schedule
Prerequisites for the course
Level 2 course – Prerequisites : L’apprenti.e 1 or equivalent knowledge
Number of sessions
3 sessions
Training duration
24 hours
Cost
595 $ + txs
Group 1
Saturday February 28th, March 7th and 14th 2026, 8AM to 5PM
Course plan
- Jointer
- Planer
- Table saw
- Miter saw
- Band saw
- Sliding table saw
- Table router
- Plate joiner and DOMINO joining machine
- Hand drills
- Sanding machines
- Palm sander and belt sander
- Woodworking fundamentals
- Working with tools and safety
- Planning a woodworking project
- Working with rough lumber
- Making half-lap joints and floating tenon and mortise joints
- Working with wood panels
- Making biscuits joints and rabbet joints on wood panels
- Cutting curved edges
- Moldings
- Machine and hand sanding
- Gluing
- Pilot holes, couter sink and chambered holes for hardware
- Finish sanding
- Materials and tools needed to carry out exercises and/or projects
- Course notebook
- If necessary, loan of hearing protectors and safety glasses
If you have one, you can bring:
- a dust mask
- hearing protectors
- safety glasses
- safety shoes
Schedule for the joinery and sheet goods course
- Presentations, course objectives and project
- Woodworking fundamentals & workshop safety
- Reminder on jointer, planer, table saw and miter saw
- Presentation, demonstration and experimentation of sliding table saw
- First steps making the base of the nightstand
- Presentation, demonstration and experimentation of table router and plate joiner
- Demonstration and experimentation of wood panel box glue up
- Presentation, demonstration et experimentation of DOMINO joiner machine
- Demonstration and experimentation of half-lap joints making on the miter saw
- Demonstration and experimentation of repeating curved edges with a router
- Glue up of the nightstand base
- Demonstration and experimentation making simple mouldings with a router
- Fundementals on assembling wood panels with raw wood
- Pilot holes, couter sink and chambered holes for hardware
- Sandind
- Final assembly of the side table
Woodworking training programs
This course is part of a program bringing together a series of courses that allow progressive and in-depth learning of cabinetmaking techniques.
Participants
Unless otherwise specified, ÉÉAM general public courses are only open to people 18 years of age and older.
As openness and inclusion are essential values for the ÉÉAM, the school strives to accommodate everyone who is interested in cabinetmaking. If you live with a functional limitation and have questions regarding your ability to attend training, please contact us to discuss.
