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Key Phrases: pyramid moldings, foundation molding, curved frieze, Art Deco, Hill House (more...)
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The attractive and distinctive fireplace mantels in this book will inspire homeowners to undertake one of the most popular renovation projects in the home. Step-by-step instructions, cutlists and excellent process photography and illustrations will make this book appeal to woodworkers with varying degrees of expertise.

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Taunton; illustrated edition edition (October 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561583855
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561583850
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #144,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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THE MANTEL IS a purely decorative frame for a fireplace. Read the first page
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pyramid moldings, foundation molding, curved frieze, compo ornaments, cut biscuit joints, reeded molding, pin nailer, lumbercore plywood, mantel parts, center cartouche, plinth blocks, oak plywood, frieze board, firebox opening, mantel shelf, main shelf, masonry screws, mantel top, molding stock, biscuit slots, cove molding, glaze coat, mounting strip, base molding, shelf boxes
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Art Deco, Hill House
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Book on Focused Topic, December 7, 2002
By Thomas W. Snook "admiralty" (Coral Gables, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This is an outstanding book on a focused topic: "Distinctive [Fireplace] Projects for any Style Home." After discussing some basics of mantel making, he describes in detail from start to finish, step-by-step, including a materials list, suppliers, and tools needed for nine projects to build nine different style firelplace mantels: Simple Colonial, Georgian, Simple Federal, Arts and Crafts, Mackintosh, Victorian, Greene and Greene, Art Deco, and Contemporary. We are updating a fifty-year old home in Coral Gables, Florida. It presently has a very pedestrian fireplace mantel. I wanted a fireplace mantel with more style. My wife and I both loved the Art Deco mantel in the book and I plan to build it almost exactly as described. I should save a considerable amount of money on materials because the mantel is built basically from one sheet of mahogany plywood. The color photographs are also outstanding in clarity and detail.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars You will be frustrated if you try to build using this book, June 1, 2008
By B. Rutledge "sjsdad" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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The book looks nice, and when you first read through the book it APPEARS to be a book you can use to build a mantel. Before I built my mantel I would have given it 4 or 5 stars (like the other people who rated it that have yet to try and build with it), but after building my mantel I wish I could give it less than one star. There are diagrams, but they omit crucial measurements and steps. There are instructions, but once you start to build you realize they are insanely vague at points, and omit crucial steps. The measurements in the text sometimes conflict with the measurements in the diagrams, and both sometimes conflict with reality. The book is OK to get ideas, and you could take a chance and hope the mantle you pick has decent instructions (I didn't build them all), but you will likely just get frustrated - there are much better books out there. Fortunately I am an experienced finish carpenter and was able to make the mantel I wanted DESPITE the book's errors and omissions - but keep in mind this is the first one-star review I have given a woodworking book (and I own hundreds).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Building Fireplace Mantels, August 29, 2005
Excellent for the beginner to the advanced woodworker. Covers framing considerations well, as well as atachment schemes and fasteners.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Skip it!
I was looking to build my own mantel, and was looking for a few ideas, this book had very few. Poor models (i.e. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Andrew Rubottom

2.0 out of 5 stars This book needs an editor
Don't think this book will help most people. There are too many dimensions missing and wrong. On the Federal mantel the writeup says cut the columns 10 1/2 inches wide but the... Read more
Published on May 8, 2005 by Thomas L. Bradford

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