WAEC SYLLABUS FOR FURNITURE MAKING 2021/2022 (WASSCE)

S/NO.

CONTENTS

NOTES

1

Furniture Workshop.

• Workshop safety rules and regulations
• Hand tools safety
• Workshop bench and appliances
• Machine tools safety
• Portable power tools safety
• Sources of workshop accident.

2

Furniture Making Materials.

• Timber growth, structure, classification, parts and cross section.
• Conversion of timber, methods, advantages and disadvantages.
• Seasoning of timber, methods, advantages and disadvantages.
• Defects in timbers, causes, classification, illustrations with sketches.
• Preservation of timber, preservatives – characteristics, types and applications.
• Manufactured boards, types, method of production, uses, advantages, disadvantages and sketches.
• Wood adhesive definition applications, preparation, types, uses and characteristics.
• Nails and uses – sketches, methods of driving in nails.
• Screw types and uses, illustration with sketches and methods of driving in screws.
• Cabinet fittings, types, uses, sketches and procedures of fittings.

3

Woodworking tools and equipment.

• Hand tools – types, classification, uses and sketches.
• Machines – types, uses and operation.
• Portable power tools – types and operations.
• Other tools and equipment used in furniture making.
• Maintenance of furniture tools and equipment.

4

Furniture Design and Construction.

• Timber preparation – cutting to sizes, marking and planing timber to final sizes.
• Common wood work joints – types, classification and uses.
• Construction – types of construction-frame box construction.
• Free hand sketching of common household furniture items.
• Design fundamentals, elements and principles of design.
• Stages – preliminary sketches and working drawing.
• Planning – working rod, selection of materials, cutting list.
• Construction of different items of furniture, procedures – preparation of materials, setting out of joints, cutting of joints, assembling and finishing.

5

Upholstery work.

• Meaning and forms.
• Tools and machines.
• Traditional and modern padding materials.
• Design and construction of upholstery frames.
• Padding and stuffing.
• Fixing sewn materials.

6

Entrepreneurship in furniture marking.

• Business opportunities in furniture making.
• Starting a furniture business, factors to be considered.
• Managing of furniture workshop, estimate and costing of furniture item.

ITEM NO

EQUIPMENT

QUANTITY REQUIRED

1.

Try Square

20

2.

Mitre Square

10

3.

Sliding Bevel

10

4.

Marking Gauge

10

5.

Mortise Gauge

10

6.

Marking knives

10

7.

Four Fold (wooden Rule)

10

8.

Tape Rule (Metric)

20

9.

Jack Plane

10

10.

Smooth Plane

10

11.

Trying Plane (jointing Plane)

5

12.

Block Plane

5

13.

Rebate Plane

5

14.

G Clamp

5

15.

Plough Plane

5

16.

Bull Nose Plane

2

17.

Router Plane

2

18.

Rip Saw

10

19.

Crosscut Saw

10

20.

Tenon Saw

15

21.

Panel Saw

10

22.

Coping Saw

5

23.

Compass Saw

2

24.

Nest of Saws

2

25.

Keyhole/pad Saw

1

26.

Fret Saw

2

27.

Dovetail Saw

5

28.

Firmer Chisel

10 sets

29.

Bevelled Edge Firmer Chisel

10 sets

30.

Mortise Chisel (set)

10 sets

31.

Turning Chisel

2 sets

32.

Centre bit

5 sets

33.

Auger Bit

5 sets

34.

Twist Bit

5 sets

35.

Rose

2 sets

36.

Bradawl

10

37.

Gimlet

5 sets

38.

Ratchet brace

5

39.

Dowel Rounder

5

40.

Drill Bit

10 sets

41.

Screw Driver (set of 6)

5 sets

43.

Mallet

20

44.

Claw Hammer

10

45.

Cross Pein Hammer

10

46.

Ball Pein Hammer

10

47.

‘F’ Clamp

10

48.

Sash Clamp

10

49.

Hand Screw

10

50.

Bench Holdfast

5

51.

Mitre Box

5

52.

Mitre Cramp

5

53.

Mitre Shooting Board

5

54.

Flat Files (assorted)

10

55.

Scraper(flat)

10

56.

Dividers

10

57.

Pincers

5

58.

Spoke shave

2

59.

Dowelling jig

5

60.

Rasps

10

61.

Sewing Machine

2

62.

Scissors

10

63.

Staple Gun

2

64.

Needle (set) Curved and Straight

10

65.

Tack Hammer

10

66.

Pliers

5

67.

Magnetic Hammer

5

68.

Ripping Chisel

5

69.

Knives

5

70.

Tape (tailors type)

10

71.

Web Strainer

10

72.

Spring Cutter

5

73.

Spanner (set)

2 sets

74.

Wrenches

2 sets

75.

Botton Making Machine

2

76.

Work Bench

10

77.

Bench Vice

20

78.

Paint brush (sets)

5

79.

Putty knives

5

80.

Storage box

2

81.

Water stone

2

82.

Oil can

2

83.

Veneer hammer

2

84.

First-aid box

1

S/N

NAME

AUTHOR

PUBLISHER

1

WOODWORK FOR G.C.E &C.S.E

(Metric Edition)

J.N GREEN

Mills and Boon Ltd

2

WOODWORK IN THEORY & PRACTICE

JOHN .A.WALTON

3

MODERN WOODWORKING

WILLIS .H.WAGNER

The Goodheart

-Willcox,Inc

4

WOOD OCCUPATIONS

PETER BRETT

Nelson Thorns

5

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WOODWORK

(4^th Edition)

GEORGE LOVE

Longman

6

CONSTRUCTING MODERN FURNITURE

VICTOR .J.TAYLOR

Sterlin g publishing Co.Inc New York

7

PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERY

C.HOWES F.A.M.U

Evans brothers Ltd

London

8

WOODWORK DESIGN AND PRACTICE

DAVID .M.SHAW

Hodder and Stoughton London Sydney,Auckland Toronto