Providing the plans and instructions for an heirloom-quality dollhouse and sturdy doll furniture, this guide is written with the home woodworker in mind. All the projects are made with tools commonly found in home workshops, and every set of instructions follows a detailed step-by-step process. Simpler projects are suitable for beginners, and several challenging projects are intended for advanced woodworkers. Modular plans allow adjustments to the size of the house, and there are several options for adding charming details such as gingerbread trim. Furniture projects include an armoire, a chest of drawers, a canopy bed, a classic trunk, a grandfather clock, a rocking chair, a tea table, and a school desk.
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"With easy to follow instructions, Dennis Simmons, a woodworker with 30 years experience, shows you how to build a range of mini-scaled furniture, including chairs, tables, beds, dressers, chests and trunks." —Canadian Woodworking Magazine E-Newsletter
"Wooden Puzzles will provide hours of fun for anyone with a scrollsaw and represents good value for those interested in wooden puzzles generally." —Australian Woodworker Magazine
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Dennis Simmons is a professional woodworker and a contributor to Scroll Saw Workshop magazine. He lives Rushville, Indiana.
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Good designs, but lacking detail,
By Ed Dean (Alabama Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls (Paperback)
This book had several good furniture designs for beds, chests, bookcases, etc. However the assembly instructions were very hard to follow. It could really use an assembly drawing to illustrate how each piece of furniture goes together. You should also be aware that you will need a pretty good assortment of tools to cut and assemble the parts. It would be nice if there were a list of recommended tools. This was not a problem for me, but it could be if you are not a woodworker. Also, check the measurements as I found several incorrect measurements in the book.
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This review is from: Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls (Paperback)
I am an experienced woodworker with a well-equipped shop who makes period furniture without problems. I bought this because I wanted plans at the American Girl scale to build with my daughter who is a beginner woodworker. So far we've built the picnic table and the instructions were overly sketchy and the plans were wrong. After we realized this I had to redraw everything to fix it and restart. Also, structurally it isn't a very practical design and a couple of extra slats would make it much sturdier and easier to construct. At least for this plan you are probably better off just following an actual picnic table plan and scaling it.
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This review is from: Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls (Paperback)
the book has lots o f nice plans, most have patterns that are to scale, a couple of the bigger patterns have to be enlarged which cannot be easily done at home i took it to staples and it cost me about $8.00,it would br nice if for these plans it had a fold out full size pattern for these pieces.
I also found out tha Lowes caries a lot of the smaller size boards in several species which saves a lot of time cutting 3/4" boards down. All and all this book is well worth the money,I am in the process of building my daughter the bunk bed for her dolls for Christmas.
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making furniture, box assembly, corner trim, drawer front, drawer side, mattress support, center shelf, bottom stretcher, acrylic mirror, end rail, leg assemblies, drawer bottoms, insert panel, base assembly, decorative carving, lid support, front stretcher, leg assembly, decorative trim, stone spray paint, brad finish nails, hardwood materials, temporary adhesive, photocopied pattern, mortise drill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Walnut Page, Poplar Page, Cherry Page, Plywood Page, Birch Page, Side Rail, Left Leg, Drawer Back, Chair Assembly, Back Leg, Front Legs, Canopy Sides, Lid Front, Head Panel, Edge Trim, Arm Support, Support Stretcher, Upper Stretcher, Right Leg, Headboard Assembly, Back Bow, Lower Stretcher, Long Post, Lid Assembly, Case Bottom Browse Sample Pages:
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