Home furniture making
HOME FURNITURE MAKING
For Amateur Wood Workers, Manual Training Schools and Students containing clear detailed drawings and perspective drawings of all examples presented.
By G. A. RAETH
CHICAGO; Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1910
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PREFACE
The purpose of this book is manifold. To the manual training instructor the book will be of intrinsic value as a text in his class work; to the manual training student, it will readily suit its purpose in cabinet making or in creating new designs of furniture and to the manual training enthusiast of the home, this work will prove itself to be a valuable addition to other books of this nature.
Simple household furniture has been chosen as the general theme and all the specific drawings and articles conform with the present demand for lines of simplicity and impressiveness, securing utility and comfort as well as artistic effects. The working drawings are characteristic of the kind of furniture which the public has indorsed under the names of mission, puritan, arts and crafts and others.
No furniture is presented which it will not be possible for any one familiar with the ordinary tools of carpentry to make. The same general form of construction is used in all, though there is a variety of forms in which the finished product appears.
As we all know, hand made furniture is one of the most desirable features of the home at the present time. Its artistic value makes it impossible for those of limited means, however, if it must be purchased from professional craftsmen. On the other hand, the simplicity of its lines, the chief characteristic of its beauty, makes it possible for the handy amateur to reproduce the most costly pieces and it is for this amateur, principally, that this book on Home Furniture Making has been perfected. The lessons for each group of drawings proceed by easy stages also, so that the amateur who has succeeded with one or two will find it a simple matter to construct the more pretentious articles.
The Author
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Four plate racks
- Four magazine stands
- Three tabourets
- Sewing table, cellarette and card table
- Simple chair and corner chair
- Plant stands
- Hall trees and costumers
- Four magazine stands
- Hall chests
- Three stools
- Three umbrella stands
- Two benches
- Music rack and cabinet
- Two mission chairs
- Two couches
- Three smokers tables
- Three screens
- Two porch swings
- Two Morris chairs
- Two library tables
- Two beds
- Two davenports
- Two bookcases
- Two writing desks
- China closet and buffet
HOME FURNITURE MAKING - HINTS TO AMATEUR WOODWORKERS
- How to "square" a board
- How to use a two foot rule
- How to use a saw
- When not to place boards in a vise
- How to obtain a golden oak finish
- The use of a rip saw in place of a chisel
- When not to saw on the line
- The parts of a plane
- To avoid the splitting of corners
- How some table tops are made
- What to do with plane when not in use
- The use of nails
- When to sandpaper
- How to use the plane
- When and how to use sandpaper
- When not to use the rasp
- How to bore holes
- What to use when sandpapering straight surfaces
- How to use the chisel when sharp
- When not to depend upon sandpaper
- How to square a board (illustrated)
- To prevent splitting when chiseling
- How to work on concave and convex cuts
- How to drive nails
- How to use the chisel on concave cuts
- The common planes used in bench work
- List of articles for general hammered metal work
- The drawing of lines
- The simple cuts used in woodworking
- Perspective drawing, freehand, mechanical
- How to select and sharpen a knife
- Gluing
- The hammer, its parts and use
- Upholstering and leather seats
- Fifty-eight common joints
- Ledge, rebate or rabbet joint
- Dado, gained or grooved joint
- Cross lap joint
- Middle lap joint
- Through mortise and tenon joint
- Blind mortise and tenon joint
- Common mortise and tenon joint
- End, open, box or slip mortise and joint
- Plain miter joint
- Plain or rubbed joint
- How to apply a finish to oak
- Spline joint
- Pinned mortise and tenon joint
- Pointers on various kinds of wood
- How trees are classified
- Dovetail dado joint (illustrated)
- Housed mortise and tenon joint
- Keyed mortise and tenon joint
- Plain butt joint
- The grain of wood described
- Beveled splice
- Simple splice
- The difference between joints and splice
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