Getting Ready to Study Carpentry, Joinery or Furniture at College
The ‘Getting Ready’ list below gives you resources and activities you can use to get ready for when your course starts at Colchester Institute in September. We have picked mostly resources and activities you can access on-line and we have some suggestions too of other resources in the ‘Going Further’ section.
| Getting Ready to study Carpentry, Joinery and Furniture at Colchester Institute | |
| A link which can be used to purchase the L1 and L2 course text books for Carpentry and joinery – there is also an E-Text book too. | https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/
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| The original book from which all City and Guilds Furniture Making exams were set | The Technique of Furniture Making by Ernest Joyce and revised by Alan Peters |
| Health and Safety Study – this will aid the passing of an on-line examination | Unit 201 |
| Health and Safety Executive – become familiar with this website for H&S guidance. | https://www.hse.gov.uk/ |
| Principles of Building Study – this will aid the passing of an on-line examination | Unit 101 |
| Timber preparation | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5Srx-Ru_U |
| Grain of timber | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqYh-6c0m8 |
| Sharpening and setting a plane | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE4yVgdVW7s |
| Ripping timber | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2vh8WPgeM |
| Crosscutting timber | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8DIi2HfKM |
| Chopping a mortice | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NXq7_TILA |
| Cutting a mortise and tenon | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw |
| Cutting dovetails | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYjoj6cfno |
| Wood properties and uses | https://clickv.ie/w/wXCm |
| The Preparation of Wood – FEWTEL | https://clickv.ie/w/MXCm |
| Going Further to study Carpentry, Joinery or Furniture at Colchester Institute |
| ClickView Online videos for work readiness:
https://clickv.ie/w/VVCm – Learning for work https://clickv.ie/w/-VCm – Planning and organising https://clickv.ie/w/hWCm – Self Management https://clickv.ie/w/lWCm – Teamwork https://clickv.ie/w/nWCm – Communication https://clickv.ie/w/oWCm – Problem solving https://clickv.ie/w/TYCm – Fitting a mortice lock
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