Furniture fundamentals : chairs & benches
2015
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This book includes step-by-step illustrations and instruction, plus measured drawings, for 17 seating projects in a wide range of styles and skill levels.Projects range from simple, square stools to more challenging chairs and benches with compound joints. You'll learn how to use the best tools for the job to cut all types of must-know chair joinery, simple turning techniques, upholstery and more.You'll also find four technique articles with instruction applicable for many chairmaking and other projects.While there are no quick and easy shortcuts to making chairs, with these 17 pieces, you'll build the skills you need to make seating for every room in the house and the garden, too!
Main title:
Furniture fundamentals : chairs & benches / [edited by Robert W. Lang].
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Cincinnati, Ohio Popular Woodworking Books, [2014]©2014
Collation:
126 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Notes:
"17 projects for all skill levels" -Cover.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Benches & Stools -- Greene & Greene Garden Bench -- Greene & Greene Hall Bench -- Shaker Bench -- Japanese Garden Bench -- Stickley Ottoman -- Shaker-Inspired Bench -- Jatoba Bench -- Esherick-Style Stool -- Moravian Stool -- Chairs -- Prairie Spindle Chair -- Willow Chair -- Shaker-Style Rocker -- Morris Chair -- Inlaid Rocker -- All-Weather Morris Chair -- Gustav Stickley's Morris Chair -- The Roorkhee Chair -- Techniques -- Cheating at Chairmaking -- 18th-century Chairmaking -- Fast Fix for Teetering Legs.
ISBN:
9781440340512
Dewey class:
684.132
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
12648
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