FULL COURSE CONTENT AVAILABLE LATE-MAY 2026

Take your SketchUp skills to the next level  through two iconic woodworking projects, with Dave Richards as your guide. Starting with a Shaker candlestand, you'll progress to the elegant challenges of a tilt-top tea table — tackling turned posts, shaped legs, dovetail joinery, and an elegantly shaped top. As a bonus, Dave also shows how to model an optional pie-crust top, opening the door to some of the most decorative edge work in the furniture maker's repertoire. By the end of the course you won't just know how to model these specific pieces — you'll have a deep, transferable toolkit for handling curves and complex joinery in any woodworking project.

What You'll Learn:

• How to model turned posts and columns
• Techniques for building shaped legs
• How to model sliding dovetail joinery
• The workflow for modeling a tilt-top mechanism and spider assembly
• How to create decorative edge profiles
• Adding realistic wood textures to bring your furniture models to life

Approximate running time: 3 hours

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