Shaker Furniture (Art of Woodworking) [Spiral-bound]

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 144 pages
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0737003030
• ISBN-13: 978-0737003031
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #658,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shaker Furniture, June 23, 2000

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BRUCE PIERCE (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaker Furniture (Art of Woodworking) (Spiral-bound)

As an amature woodworker interested in plans and methods for building Shaker style furniture, I found this book very informative. It includes precise instructions for building two Shaker style chairs, a bench, three tables, a pie safe, a clock, a step stool, oval boxes and a pegboard. It also includes directions for making jigs to simplify the the construction of several of the projects. The jig for routing dovetails for a candlestand collumn while it is still on the lathe was shown in greater detail than I have seen before. The diagrams and illustrated step-by-step instrctions are easy to understand and show construction details that mere measured drawings do not. For instance, the methods for hanging a drawer and attaching a table top were especially interesting to me since they were a little different than what I commonly see. This is a book written for amature woodworks like myself who appreciate well documented plans for interesting and usefull pieces of furniture.