This text presents 32 articles including plans for favourite old pieces such as a small highboy and a tall-case clock, and how to reproduce cabriole legs, elaborate mouldings and other key elements.
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I was a bit leery of this book because it's a collection of articles. My previous experience with collections of articles has not been good - usually they're just a bunch of unrelated stories with no real continuity or theme. I was very pleasantly surprised by this book. Although this is a collection of articles that appeared in early issues of Fine Woodworking, they build on each other, with very few "junk" articles in the collection. The first article discusses the quality of period joinery and quotes a modern woodworker, Robert Emmertt, as having promised himself, "If I ever got to touch a piece of Goddard furniture, I'd never wash my hand. But now I have seen the back of a genuine Goodard piece and its drawers. And I wash my hands. My construction is better." What the article points out is that our woodworking ancestors built furniture for a living - not for art. A modern woodworker, even one with a limited shop, can build period furniture that's as good or better than even Townsend and Goodard. The follow-on articles include pointers to books with measure drawings of period furniture, instructions for building Queen Ann Cabriole legs and Chippendale "claw and ball" feet, and an interesting article on "hidden drawers". It also contains instruction for building a blockfront chest, including a scale drawing of two pieces of blockfront furniture (at 1/4 scale). There are a few "junk" articles, of course, (for example, "A Small Highboy") but there's not many in the collection. If you have an interest in period furniture, this is an excellent resource. If you're just getting started in woodworking, don't buy this book - you'll be lost. But if you're reasonably proficient, this is an excellent book, especially if you're looking to improve your ability to build period furniture. Highly recommended!
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About a year ago we received a letter from a reader, Grover W. Floyd II of Knoxville, Tenn., telling about the cabinetmaker with whom he had been studying, whom he believed to be "among the nation's finest." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pediment box, making period furniture, kneehole bureau, cock bead, drawer blade, carcase bottom, carcase sides, indexing wheel, bracket feet, carcase top, dial frame, spindle shaper, dust panels, molding head, roller head, glue blocks, scratch stock, drawer runners, post block, dovetail pins, drawer dividers, sliding dovetails, drawer sides, shell carvings, drawer guides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Queen Anne, New York, Colonial Williamsburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Lester Margon, Wallace Nutting, Yale University Art Gallery, Dover Publications, Grand Rapids, Mack Headley, Carlyle Lynch, Furniture Treasury, Peter Scott, Pilgrim Century, Philadelphia Chippendale, Thomas Affleck, Baldwin Hardware Manufacturing Corp, Cary Hall, Chinese Chippendale, Eugene Landon, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Sheraton, United States, Wallace Gusler New!
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About a year ago we received a letter from a reader, Grover W. Floyd II of Knoxville, Tenn., telling about the cabinetmaker with whom he had been studying, whom he believed to be "among the nation's finest." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pediment box, making period furniture, kneehole bureau, cock bead, drawer blade, carcase bottom, carcase sides, indexing wheel, bracket feet, carcase top, dial frame, spindle shaper, dust panels, molding head, roller head, glue blocks, scratch stock, drawer runners, post block, dovetail pins, drawer dividers, sliding dovetails, drawer sides, shell carvings, drawer guides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Queen Anne, New York, Colonial Williamsburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Lester Margon, Wallace Nutting, Yale University Art Gallery, Dover Publications, Grand Rapids, Mack Headley, Carlyle Lynch, Furniture Treasury, Peter Scott, Pilgrim Century, Philadelphia Chippendale, Thomas Affleck, Baldwin Hardware Manufacturing Corp, Cary Hall, Chinese Chippendale, Eugene Landon, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Sheraton, United States, Wallace Gusler New!
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- Furniture Treasury (2 Volumes) by Wallace Nutting on page 14, page 15, and page 64
- The Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg by Marcus Whiffen on page 33, and page 35
- American Furniture by John S. Bowman on page 11, and page 37
- More American Furniture Treasures by Margon on page 11, and page 37
- Clock Book by Wallace Nutting on page 15
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