Classic Arts and Crafts Furniture 14 Timeless Designs-2

Craftsman Bookcase If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing excessively. T here are many bookcases in my house, but they’re ...

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662 2 Off to a Good Start My lumber had been surfaced to 1^5 ⁄ 16 ", but it wasn’t quite fl at. After cutting the parts to rough ...

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664 4 A Trip to Through-Tenon Territory The next step is where the dados in the case sides saved a tremendous amount of time and ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^6655 Getting in shape. After cutting the lower arch with a jigsaw, the curve is smoothed with a rasp. a ...

666 6 card scraper and when the tenons were fl ush, I scraped the entire surface of both cabinet sides. I had set aside a small ...

The easy part. Each wedge is pared fl ush with the surrounding tenon. Then they are removed and stuck to a piece of blue painter ...

668 8 Soak then shave. After sawing off the wedges, the joints are soaked with paint thinner to make it easier to trim the end g ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^6699 drew a line parallel to the shelf to locate the runner. With the drawer front^1 ⁄ 2 " behind the e ...

Stickley Book Rack Expose your joinery skills with this Arts & Crafts classic. I n the early 1900s, furniture maker Gustav S ...

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772 2 We have the choice to work by hand, work by power or work with both. If we understand where each method excels as well as ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^7733 the work at a comfortable height and I run the router around the inside perimeter of each opening. ...

774 4 about^1 ⁄ 8 " deep, and a fine-toothed saw leaves a nice, clean edge. There are a several ways to make the cheek cuts, and ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^7755 the tenons back to the shoulder line. Fit to be Fit In a perfect world, the tenons would slide nea ...

776 6 narrower pieces and is weak near the opening at the top. The lower shelf is worked the same way, but it is trickier to fit ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^7777 edges. The outer edge of the mortise is angled by hand to match the angle of the wedge. I don’t wo ...

Authentic Stickley Finish For the August 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I built a reproduction of a Gustav Stickley ...

BOOK STORAGEBOOK STORAGE^ (^7799) appropriate color. I fl ood the surface with oil, and use a synthetic steel wool pad to work i ...