Furniture & cabinets

Tables, cabinets, drawers, shelving, and frame-and-panel work.

• TableA supporting surface that holds or guides timber while it is cut or shaped, the woodworker's own worktable rather than a piece of furniture.
• CabinetThe trade of building furniture's carcase, the basic box of sides, top, bottom and back before doors or drawers are added.
• ShelfA flat, thin board fixed horizontally to carry things resting on it, usually held between a cabinet's sides or fixed straight to a wall.
• DrawerA box that slides in and out of furniture on rails fixed inside the carcase, its front the part seen and handled.
• Frame and panelBuilding a flat wooden surface, most often a door or casework, from a rigid outer frame with a thinner panel fitted loose inside it.
• WorkbenchA sturdy table built to hold work steady while it is sawn, chiselled, planed or otherwise shaped by hand.