Classic Arts and Crafts Furniture 14 Timeless Designs-2

Poppy Table Before developing the rectilinear Craftsman style, Gustav Stickley experimented with curvaceous Art Nouveau designs. ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^112121 Fresh look from an old design. This small tea table was originally made more tha ...

1122 22 Engineering First When I began working on the design, my fi rst concern was the shape of the pieces. I soon realized tha ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^112323 161 ⁄ 16 ” 167 ⁄ 8 " 13 47 ⁄^8 ” ⁄ 16 ” 2” (^3) ⁄ 4 ” 513 ⁄ 16 ” 1” LEG PATTERN ...

1124 24 Straight fi tting. All the joints were made and all parts dry-assembled before doing any of the shaping to the legs and ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^112525 center of each leg at the minimum depth, with the top of the shelf 7^1 ⁄ 8 " abo ...

1126 26 A close scrape. The hand-stitched rasp will leave shallow, narrow grooves. A cabinet scraper follows the rasp to remove ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^112727 First coat. Dark walnut Danish oil helps to accentuate the grain of the mahogany ...

Living on the Edge In every project, there is at least one process that takes much longer than expected. It doesn’t matter if it ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^112929 into the shop to see what’s going on and to shoot the breeze. More than one aske ...

H a nd To o l s/ Pow e r To o l s When my son was in Cub Scouts, we went on fi eld trips on Saturday mornings. One week we went ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^113131 I couldn’t come up with a way to clamp it down and move a router in. I removed m ...

Gustav Stickley Morris Chair Reproduce an Arts & Crafts classic and reward yourself with the ultimate easy chair. I n Gustav ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^113333 Si t u p s t r aig ht. O r le an b ac k an d r e la x. T his Gu s t av St ic k l ...

1134 34 Fools Rush In As I prepare to build, I like to break a project down into its component parts. Each side of the base of t ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^113535 (^5) ⁄ 8 " dia. 3" 265 ⁄ 8 " 231 ∕ 2 " 2" 3" 193 ⁄ 8 "^22 (^1) ⁄ 4 " 23 ⁄ 4 " 31 ...

53 ⁄ 8 " 2" 101 ⁄ 4 " (^1) ⁄ 4 " 23 ⁄ 8 " 23" 23 ⁄ 8 " 273 ⁄ 4 " (^11281) ⁄ 4 " (^3) ⁄ 8 " 43 ⁄ 8 " 221 ⁄ 4 " (^15) ⁄ 16 " 23 ⁄ ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^113737 Don’t throw that away. The offcuts from tapering the upper rails are taped b ac ...

1138 38 A little off the top. An angled wedge sliced off the end of the arm forms the bend. Get to the bottom. The wedge is glue ...

TABL ES & C HAIRSTABLES & CHAIRS^113939 On the up and up. A wedge below the arm pro- vides the proper tilt to keep the h ...