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How To Make Your Own Furniture
Hardcover
CarpentryFurniture DesignFurniture & Cabinetry
ISBN13: 9781446512401
Publisher: Mackaye Press
Published: Nov 17 2010
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sharp tools, sound timber, and a bench to work at: Henry Lionel Williams's handbook of home cabinetmaking teaches the beginner everything needed to build furniture that lasts.
How to Make Your Own Furniture is a complete practical course for the amateur. Williams starts with the workspace itself - where to stand a bench, which tools to buy first, how to keep an edge on them - then moves through the choice of timber and fittings, the cutting and joining that hold a piece together, and the patient business of finishing. A final chapter on design shows how to work out proportion and construction for pieces of your own.
The advice here assumes no machinery beyond what a keen amateur might own, and the diagrams are drawn to be worked from rather than admired.
This edition features:
- A complete beginner's course in home cabinetmaking, from fitting out a workspace to finishing a piece properly
- Practical guidance on choosing timber, boards, fittings and adhesives, and on what a first tool kit needs
- Full instruction in measuring, cutting and joining, illustrated with clear working drawings throughout
- A chapter devoted to finishing alone: filling, staining, waxing and polishing to a hard-wearing surface
- A closing chapter on design, teaching proportion and construction so readers can plan pieces of their own
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