Fixing Woodworking Mistakes and Joinery

Fixing Common Woodworking Mistakes will be offered on Friday, July 26 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. at the AWFS Fair in Las Vegas. Speaker  Roland Johnson will discuss how even the best craftsmen make mistakes but it is knowing how to repair them that makes a piece of furniture great. Roland shares multiple methods for recovery beginning with how to avoid mistakes in the first place, then shows how to fix nearly anything short of ashes, including how to disassemble projects that need repair without creating more damage.

He discusses designing and layout to maximize material, minimize ugly and keep everything in order. Attendees learn how to identify different grain orientations and how they affect wood movement. To capitalize on ‘making more out of less,” Roland addresses lengthening, splicing and other tricks for repairing ‘measure once, cut twice’ lumber or damaged project parts. Rounding out a compact course he tackles the repair of joinery as well as how to fix broken tenons, repair dovetails and broken spindles, heal chipped corners and cure a host of other woodworking headaches. See awfsfair.org for more information.