Making Furniture Masterpieces: 30 Projects with Measured Drawings – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Ebook Name: Making Furniture Masterpieces: 30 Projects with Measured Drawings
ISBN-13: 9780486293387
ISBN-10: 0486293386
Addition ISBN: 0486156729, 9780486156729, 9780486293387, 0486293386
Author(s): Franklin H. Gottshall, Publisher: Dover Publications

This clearly written how-to book by master craftsman Franklin H. Gottshall allows woodworkers to construct handsome, useful furniture in the most highly regarded antique styles. Characterized by beauty and richness of design, each of 30 different projects — all replicas of actual rare furniture — can be completed by ambitious beginners as well as skilled crafters for only a fraction of what vintage originals would cost. Woodcrafters can choose from pieces spanning a wide variety of styles — from a simple dovetailed box to an elegant Philadelphia Chippendale highboy. Included as well are directions for constructing a Dutch cupboard, refectory table, gateleg table, shelf top corner cupboard, Queen Anne hall table, Pennsylvania Dutch painted chest, and other distinctive pieces. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions are accompanied by photographs and drawings as well as front and end views and detailed sketches of parts and procedures. Decorative skills such as woodcarving, upholstering, finishing, and wrought-iron work are also fully described and related for each piece.