Making Authentic Country Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics [Paperback]

John G. Shea (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 1994

Extensively researched, profusely illustrated book explores principal elementary antique country furniture designs used in North America over the past 400 years—with English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Norwegian influences represented. 95 measured drawings for constructing candlestand, pedestal table, rocker, corner cupboard, cradle, armoire, many more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (January 12, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486277747
• ISBN-13: 978-0486277745
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,808,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the drawings alone are worth 10 times the price, October 3, 1999

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This review is from: Making Authentic Country Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Paperback)

I purchased this book in 1978. I have made several of the pieces described in the book by using the measured drawings. I made the "hutch-table chair out of Butternut and several other pieces out of Cherry. I cannot tell you how valuable the book is to a cabinet maker. It shows a picture of the piece and then the blueprints. It also describes the old fashioned joinery used. I have personally kiln dried 200 million feet of hardwoods by conventional forced hot air and also ran a "Vacu-Therm" dry kiln system. I also supervised a planning mill with planers,rip saws. band rip saws, straight-line rip saws, moulders, table saws, and end-trimmers. In my 30 years of hardwood background I have never seen a more useful book than this one.