Furniture Making
44 topics sit in this course for WAEC WASSCE.
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This course has 44 topics. Open practice to work through them in the WAEC WASSCE workspace.
course outline
- Furniture Workshop
- Workshop safety rules and regulations
- Hand tools safety
- Workshop bench and appliances
- Machine tools safety
- Portable power tools safety
- Sources of workshop accident
- Furniture Making Materials
- Timber growth, structure, classification, parts and cross section
- Conversion of timber, methods, advantages and disadvantages
- Seasoning of timber, methods, advantages and disadvantages
- Defects in timbers, causes, classification, illustrations with sketches
- Preservation of timber, preservatives - characteristics, types and applications
- Manufactured boards, types, method of production, uses, advantages, disadvantages and sketches
- Wood adhesive definition applications, preparation, types, uses and characteristics
- Nails and uses – sketches, methods of driving in nails
- Screw types and uses, illustration with sketches and methods of driving in screws
- Cabinet fittings, types, uses, sketches and procedures of fittings
- Woodworking tools and equipment
- Hand tools – types, classification, uses and sketches
Furniture Design and Construction- Timber preparation – cutting to sizes, marking and planing timber to final sizes
- Common wood work joints – types, classification and uses
- Construction – types of construction-frame box construction
- Free hand sketching of common household furniture items
- Design fundamentals, elements and principles of design
- Stages – preliminary sketches and working drawing
- Planning – working rod, selection of materials, cutting list
- Construction of different items of furniture, procedures preparation of materials, setting out of joints, cutting of joints, assembling and finishing
Upholstery work- Meaning and forms
- Tools and machines
- Traditional and modern padding materials
- Design and construction of upholstery frames
- Padding and stuffing
- Fixing sewn materials
- Business opportunities in furniture making
Entrepreneurship in furniture marking- Starting a furniture business, factors to be considered
- Managing of furniture workshop, estimate and costing of furniture item
