Making Furniture projects & plans

In this compilation of projects and plans from Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine, veteran craftsman Mark Ripley puts 20 years’ worth of practical tips, refreshing ideas, and innovative approaches on the page. The 24 fully-diagrammed and illustrated designs here offer something to furniture-makers of all abilities, from a simple dining-room table to the more complex breakfront bookcase. And these projects don’t require a lavishly-equipped shop each design requires little more than a bench, a small bandsaw, two or three portable power tools, and a basic kit of hand tools. Before diving into building plans, Ripley helps readers understand the basics of properly choosing materials and harmonizing the elements of furniture design.

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Make Your Own Furniture. A Working Handbook

There is little doubt that making your own furniture can be a rewarding experience.

Seeing a finished piece in its correct place in your home and knowing that it is 'ail your own work' is a real pleasure. But there is one important proviso. It has to look good. Most of us have seen pieces of furniture, usually designed with the homemaker in mind. which lackall grace and delight and which, howeverwell constructed. have that tell -taie amateur look. We have tried to put together a range of furniture which has that touch of class which lifts it above the commonplace, and which is. nevertheless. within the range of the home furniture maker.

Most of the designs in this book are intended for someone who has done a few DIY jobs already and hascollected some hand toolson theway. The projects also require an electric power drill. some of the attachments for it, and the occasional specialised tool. like a sash cramp, which you can hire over the weekend rather than buying it. But if you are a complete beginner, don't despair. The projects progress from the very simple to the more demanding, and the first few projects, for example Alf Martensson's wall storage range and bunk beds, are well within the capabilitiesof a beginner. If you make something like this to gain experience, there is no reason why you shouldn't move on to something more intricate. like the elm dining table and chairs.

Ail the furniture in this book has been designed by professional furniture designers, who have provided detailed step-by-step making instructions for each of the projects, together with tips and ideas which they have picked up from years of making furniture by hand. In addition, Nick Frewing's section 'Timber, Tools and Techniques' gives you ail the background information you need on skills such as sawing, drilling, joint making and so on, which are common to ail the projects.

From ail this, you can see that we have tried to make the book comprehensive and if there is one message we want to leave with you loud and clear it is: You do not need to have seen the television programmes to make the furniture.

The book is complete in itself, and it is not essential to have watched us putting the furniture together on television.

One of the things the television programmes did emphasise was the large number of variations available from one design. In the colour photographs and in the instructions, we are forced to go for one set of options, but you can vary the type of timber, fabric, paint colour. choice of laminate and so on, to suit your particular requirements. A good example of this is Brian Davey's dining table, originally built in solid elm with a cork top, but easily varied to a solid teak

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Fine Woodworking Traditional Furniture Projects

In 25 articles from the pages of «Fine Woodworking» magazine, the worlds foremost woodworkers share their knowledge of design, proportion, and technique. Each classic project has complete drawings and detailed construction techniques.
Table of contents : Front cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 2
Measuring Antiques......Page 3
Compiling a materials list......Page 6
Building a Chest of Drawers......Page 7
Holding the Notes......Page 12
Leg-and-Apron Table......Page 17
Shaker-Style End Table......Page 21
Making a Hepplewhite Card Table......Page 25
An 18th-century wooden hinge......Page 28
Brandy Stand......Page 29
A 17th-Century Chest......Page 32
Hepplewhite Chest of Drawers......Page 35
Spice Boxes......Page 39
Line-and-berry inlay......Page 42
Campaign Chest......Page 43
Building a Roll-Top Dest......Page 47
Post-Office Desk......Page 53
Kentucky Quilt Cabint......Page 56
Constructing a Walnut Chest......Page 59
Shaker Casework......Page 65
Provincial Corner Cupboard......Page 72
Kentucky Cupboard......Page 75
The Pencil-Post Bed......Page 79
Toying with tradition......Page 84
Building a Bent-Back Rocker......Page 85
Building a Sengebenk......Page 91
Carving the bench's backrest......Page 95
Making the Chippendale Chair......Page 97
The New England Windsor Chair......Page 105
Making Period Doors......Page 112
Building Fireplace Mantels......Page 117
Making mantel moldings......Page 119

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Furniture Making Projects for the Wood Craftsman

“The 22 projects provide a useful source of ideas for furniture, as well as some refreshing and innovative approaches to making it. The book offers a wide range of furniture styles from several makers....Each... accompanied by color photographs and illustrations.”—Woodshop News.

INTRODUCTION

THERE IS EVERY CHANCE that the end of the 20th century will be looked back on as a golden age of furniture-making. At this time, makers are working in the widest range of idioms imaginable, as they have so much to choose from: the ages of oak and walnut pricide the extraordinary 75 years or so that comprise what we call the Georgian period; the latter followed by the exubarant Regency style; Arts & Crafts from Morris to Mackintosh, Shaker from the USA; and of course the 20th

Century itself- a rich palette by any standards.

As today's craftsmen can draw on such a continuing tradition, their work develops free of constraint on design. Likewise the diversity of techniques available to the furniture-maker has never been greater, traditional approaches such as dovetailing and morticing co-existing with biscuit joints, routed joints and high-tech adhesives.

Much of this development is driven by technology, not least in the new materials now offered - what would a Georgian craftsman make of MDF, for example?. It is in the small workshop that the blending of these elements is most noticeable.

Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine, from which this book is compiled, is unique in drawing out the experience of individual makers regardless of their style or approach, and presenting examples of their work in the form of projects. The resuit is a fascinating insight into the craft at its current stage of development, and an invaluable guide for practitioners.

Whatever your taste in furniture design and preference in techniques, the projects in this book will not only provide a useful source of ideas for furniture, but also some refreshing and innovative approaches to making it.

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