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10 The Woodworker & Good Woodworking October 2019 http://www.getwoodworking.comLATEST BOOK FROM LOST ART PRESS
JOINER’S WORK BY PETER FOLLANSBEE
THE ‘HARROGATE’ SHOW
RETURNS FROM
1517 NOVEMBER
Forget what you think about 17th-century New
England furniture: it’s neither dark nor boring –
instead, it’s a riot of geometric carvings and bright
colours, all built upon simple constructions that
use rabbets, nails and mortise & tenon joints.
Peter Follansbee has spent his adult life
researching this beguiling time period to
understand the simple tools and straightforward
processes used to build the historical pieces
featured in this book. Joiner’s Work represents
the culmination of decades of serious research
and shop experimentation. But it’s no dry treatise.
Follansbee’s wit – honed by 20 years ofNow in its 27th year, the much-anticipated North of England
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this year from 15–17 November. As usual, it will be held at the well-
equipped Great Yorkshire Showground and advanced early bird tickets are
now on sale. In terms of demonstrators, as with all years you can expect
a fantastic line-up including woodturners Chris Fisher, Joey Richardson,
Mark Sanger, Tony Wilson and Andrew Hall, among many others, as
well as displays of sharpening, carving, furniture making and Windsor
chairmaking. All the biggest names in the industry will be selling theirConstruction of these projects is covered in exquisite detail in both the text
and hundreds of step photos. Peter assumes you know almost nothing of
17th-century joinery, and so he walks you through the joints and carving as
if it were your first day on the job. Plus he offers ideas for historical finishes.A massive tome
What Peter doesn’t provide, however, is detailed construction drawings
of each piece with a cutting list and list of supplies you might need. As
you quickly learn in the opening chapters, the size of the projects (and
their components) are based on what you can harvest from the tree.
There’s immense flexibility in this method of work, but to help keep
you oriented, Peter provides pencil sketches (made by the wonderful Dave
Fisher) that explain the anatomy of each project, plus rough sizes that
will help you plan out your work in the woods and at the workbench.
If you are accustomed to CAD renderings, this will feel unfamiliar.
But if you are brave, Lost Art Press think you’ll find it a freeing way to
build these pieces (which frankly look odd when built using contemporary
precision techniques).
Throughout the book you’ll have the voice of Follansbee to guide you.
If you’ve ever heard him speak, you will instantly recognise the rhythm
of the language and the dry humour. Lost Art Press took great pains to
retain Peter’s voice in this book.
Joiner’s Work is a massive tome, coming in at 264 pages in an 8^1 ⁄ 2 × 11in
format. The text and full-colour images are printed on coated #80 paper.
The pages are bound to create a permanent book. Lost Art Press sew
the signatures then glue and tape the spine with fibrous tape. The pages
are then wrapped by heavy hardbound covers that are covered in cotton
cloth. The whole package is wrapped in a #100 dust jacket that is coated
with a supermatte laminate to resist tearing and long-term wear.
Joiner’s Work is available for UK deliveries from Classic Hand Tools
and priced at £43.50 (EU is £55.50) (both include delivery). For more
information, see http://www.classichandtools.com.demonstrating at Plimoth Plantation – suffuses every page. It’s a
fascinating trip to the early days of joinery on the North American
continent that’s filled with lessons for woodworkers of all persuasions.From lumber to tree
If you like green woodworking, Joiner’s Work is a doctoral thesis on
processing furniture-shaped chunks of lumber from the tree using
and axe, froe, hatchet and brake. If you are into carving, Peter dives
into deep detail on how he festoons his pieces with carvings that appear
complex but are remarkably straightforward. And if you love casework,
this book is a lesson on the topic that you won’t find in many places.
Peter’s approach to the work, which is based on examining original
pieces and endless shop experimentation, is a liberating and honest
foil to the world of micrometers and precision routing.
The book features six projects, starting with a simple box with a
hinged lid. Peter then shows how to add a drawer to the box, followed
by a slanted lid for writing, before he plunges into the world of joined
chests and their many variations, including those with a panelled lid
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