Whether you are already a woodworker and want to upgrade your skills to become a self employed cabinetmaker or if you are looking for a brand new career, the New England School of Architectural Woodworking can be your springboard to a number of exciting jobs in the following.

		Corporate Interiors: Reception Desks, Computer Stations, Conference Tables
		Architectural Millwork: Residential and  Commercial Custom Cabinets,Doors, Stairs, Windows, Mouldings, and Paneling
		Aviation and Yacht Outfitting and Detailing
		Displays and Exhibits
		Specialty Woodwork
		Custom Interiors
		Store Fixtures
		Furniture

Job Placement Working cooperatively with local woodworking employers and others from around the country, our Job Placement Department provides an active network. We make every effort to place our graduates in jobs that match their abilities, skills, and areas of expertise. Six weeks before the end of a program, we send our employers a list of our graduates' names and specialties and find that it is our on-going communication with woodworking companies that is the foundation of our job placement success.

Students meet actual on-the-job expectations by completing projects for private and public organizations. Projects may include the construction of computer tables, built-in cabinets, entertainment centers, library circulation desks, or office furniture. Budgets and delivery dates provide students experience in the operation of a real shop. Projects include advanced instruction with custom jigs and templates, and use of laminates and veneers. Experienced instructors give students a realistic sense of their prospective employer's expectations. This real-life emphasis is supported by tours of other shops, lumber yards, and plywood manufacturers. By graduation, students have acquired confidence and competence, as well as experience in commercial shop operation.

Our instruction is practical, hands-on, and realistic. Students learn basic and advanced woodworking skills, machinery, wood technology, finishing, tool and machine maintenance, safety procedures, and shop operation. Moving step by step through the construction of a cabinet, each student is introduced to blueprint reading, drafting, full-scale drawings, parts listings, and hardware specifications. Students learn how to use the table saw, router, shaper, planer, joiner, hand drills, power screw guns, drill press, and pneumatic or electric nailers. Joinery techniques like rabbeting, dadoing, grooving and mitering, plate or biscuit joiners, and clamping are all part of the construction process. Basic finish preparation and techniques are also discussed and applied.

Adjunct lessons include tool and machine care, hardware components, and basic business practices such as time and cost pricing, and job estimating.  Throughout the construction process, safety is of paramount importance, and each student pairs up with another and monitors safety practices whenever a machine is in operation.

Real Life Projects  Following this introduction to general woodworking, students are expected to meet actual on-the-job expectations by completing projects for private and public organizations.

These projects are complete with budgets and delivery dates, as students get a glimpse into how an architectural woodworking shop functions on a daily basis. The project also provides instruction in more advanced techniques like designing and constructing special jigs, templates, and application of laminates and veneers. Since students work in teams, there may be as many as four projects under construction at one time giving students the opportunity to observe a number of different techniques and practices. 

Since our instructors are practiced and experienced woodworkers, our students get a realistic sense of what their prospective employers will expect. This real-life emphasis is supported by trips to woodworking shops and tours to lumber yards and plywood manufacturing firms. By the end of nine months, students have acquired both confidence and competence and a realistic understanding of employers' expectations and shop operations.