Customer Reviews

Building Adirondack Furniture: The Art, the History, & How-To

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Maybe it's the engineer in me but I felt that the plans in this book were lacking. The furniture dimensions were difficult to find. The exploded diagram if dimensioned would have been of great help. The historical accounts were interesting reading but if your looking to build some Adirondack Chairs/Furniture this is not the book for you.

Need a good, detailed, simple-to-contruct chair plan? This is it. (Wish I'd had this book last year when I made my first chairs.) No patterns to enlarge. Everything is made with stock lumber. Great pictures (B&W), very basic design, step-by-step instructions. And once you understand the basic chair construction, you can tweak it anyway you want. Directions included are for a chair, footrest, table, and bench. No fancy tools needed either! I can't wait to build a couple!

Great book. Clear. Well illustrated. Starts from scratch and brings you all the way through the building process for a number of porjects. Couldn't have asked for more here, in terms of clarity and explicit narrative. Crisp drawings are backed up with instructive photos. I would HIGHLY recommend this book. Great history section too!

Greg Sanders, Atlanta

A fabulous book; clear illustrations; easy to follow text. I built the chair and table, and had great success. Great for the beginning woodworker.

My wife and I often go to Lake George in upstate New York. We had stopped in Bolton Landing and saw this book in one of the furniture stores. Well, after two years I finally got around to making two chairs, with the curved back, legrests and the table. They came out great and the book made it that much easier. All the pieces took about 2 days to finish and all I need to do is sit back and relax in them! I highly recommend this one!

I followed this book cover to cover and have built 2 chairs and 2 footrests - The table and bench are next :)

I enjoyed the history at the beginning of the book, then got stuck in to the process of building.

The work had already been done to come up with the cutting plans, so you don't waste a lot of wood on scrap.

The only mistake I made was that as I couldn't find 5/4 lumber, I used 1x instead - this alters the cutting lengths - be careful!!

I'm a programmer not a woodworker but even I was able to produce a beautiful piece. I did the bench but gave it away, now I need to build some pieces for myself.

I broke down an bought a table saw. I had always used tools that I borrowed from friends. Be careful, you don't know where this book will lead you.

This book is very excellent and informative. It has a lot of instructions and tells how to build Adirondack furniture. And it has a lot of photographs. I recommend to modern and old-fashioned Adirondack furniture fans who have always wanted to make those furniture for a long time.

This was given as a gift, to someone who makes Adirondack furniture. They told me it was helpful

A good book with some interesting history about the Adirondack chair. Simple and easy to understand.