The wall hanging cabinet is one of the best skill building projects a woodworker can take on. From basic joinery skills like dadoes to more advanced frame and panel construction, this humble cabinet is fun, demanding, and limitless. Adding elements such as a carved door and hand shaped edge profiles can elevate a piece—and your skill set—even further. In this class, Erik will walk students through the design and construction of a wall hanging whiskey cabinet. The class will start with the ever-important discussion of grain selection—how and when to use flat sawn, quarter sawn, or book-matched boards and how different grain orientations can affect the visual flow of a piece. From there comes joinery: housed stub tenon or floating tenons for the carcass, stopped dadoes for the shelves, and rabbets and grooves for the rear panel. A combination of simple machinery and hand tools will be employed. Discussions, such as whether to employ hand planes or sanders for surface prep and routers versus hand planes for edge profiling will be had along the way. Finally, Erik will discuss his various finishing techniques and what makes the most sense in a professional shop as well as your home shop. Students will leave not only with a beautiful cabinet for their favorite whiskey, but also with the confidence and necessary skills to take on a project of this caliber in their own shop!