MSFFM2017 - Hand make timber joints
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Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to make timber joints using hand and portable power tools. Workers with this competency complete routine tasks in industries such as furniture and cabinet making.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
- choose and make appropriate joints, including 4 different joint types and 2 types of adhesive, using only handheld tools while undertaking:
- box construction
- carcass construction
- drawer construction
- frame construction.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- workplace procedures for:
- work health and safety
- quality assurance:
visual appearance – alignment, neatness
tolerance
gaps or play in joints and strength
reporting of faults
- workflow for furniture production
- joint types and their suitability for different purposes, including at least four of the following:
- dowel
- mortice and tenon
- dovetail
- lap joint
- biscuit joint
- finger joint
- housing joint
- mitre joint
- bridle joint
- characteristics of different timber types commonly used in joint construction
- characteristics of different adhesive types commonly used in joint construction
- function of tools commonly used for hand construction of joints, including at least 5 of the following:
- chisel
- mallet
- mortise gauges
- vernier calipers
- vice
- dovetail saw
- tenon saw
- coping saw
- plane
- file
- hand drill
- power drill
- dowel jig
- power router
- portable biscuit machines
- power planers
- power saw
- personal protective equipment (PPE) required for hand construction of joints.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):