Furniture Making
Books
Books and
DVD's about Designing and Building Fine Furniture, Including Tables,
Chairs, Chests, Drawers, Beds, and Much More
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Beds
Plans and Complete Instructions
for Building Nine Classic Beds. A bed is one of the most
significant pieces of furniture in most homes, ranking with the
dining table as a major purchase or project. Jeff Miller, winner of
the 1998 Stanley Award for best woodworking book, offers nine
attractive bed projects accessible to woodworkers of any skill
level. In Beds, you'll find step-by-step projects for a small
bed, a Shaker-style bed, a Craftsman-style bed, a pencil-post bed, a
plywood platform bed, a Windsor chair inspired bed, a modern "city"
bed, a sleigh bed, and a bunk bed. You're sure to find more than one
that will inspire you. |
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Beds and Bedroom
Furniture
A Variety of Styles to Grace
Your Bedroom. Good bedroom furniture does more than give
us a place to sleep or to provide storage. The best of it has grace
and presence, qualities that seem in harmony with its setting. In
these 23 articles from the pages of Fine Woodworking
magazine, you'll see bedroom furniture in a variety of styles.
Pieces range from a graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a
dressing table to a spectacular sleigh bed. In between there are
bureaus, tables, and a crib. In all, you'll find something here to
grace just about any bedroom, whatever style it might be. |
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Bookcases
Bookcase Projects and Plans for
Building 11 Classic Bookcase Projects. Bookcases are one
of the most accessible and commonly built projects -- who doesn't
need or want open storage for their homes? The projects in this book
cover a range of styles and difficulty -- and they all are designed
by well-known custom woodworkers from around the country. Clear
step-by-step instructions guide you through the building of each
project, and exploded and measured drawings show every detail. |
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Build A Shaker Table - DVD
From Stock Selection to Final
Detailing, You Can Build Your Own Shaker Dining Room Table.
Want to build your own Shaker-style dining table? You can -- once
you've watched how furniture maker Kelly Mehler handles the task.
You'll watch a skilled craftsman organize the entire process of
making a traditional leg-and-apron table, from stock selection to
finish preparation. And you'll be able to use his techniques for any
furniture project you want to tackle
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Building Doors and
Drawers
How To Make Cabinet Doors and
Furniture Drawers That Are Stylish, Functional and Uncomplicated.
Whatever type of cabinets you're creating, doors and drawers are at
the center of their style and functionality. When you're done, they
get all the attention. But to get precisely the results you're
looking for, you need a plan, some reliable techniques, maybe even a
few inside tips. Discover practical tips and advice from expert
cabinet maker Andy Rae, step-by-step instructions, plus 35 drawings
and 325 full-color photos that show you exactly how to handle every
facet of design and construction |
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Building Fireplace
Mantels
Distinctive Fireplace Mantel
Projects You Can Build for Any Style Home.
The building of fireplace mantels is fast
becoming one of the most popular home renovation projects in the
country. The attractive and distinctive fireplace mantels in this
book will inspire you to build your own. Nine projects reflect
all the popular home styles from Colonial to Arts and Crafts and
Contemporary, ensuring a project to suit your home and tastes.
Step-by-step instructions,
cutlists, and excellent process photography and illustrations make
the mantels accessible -- whatever your skill level. An
initial chapter surveys materials for building and finishing
mantels. You wont find a better how-to book on fireplace mantels
anywhere. |
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Building
Kitchen Cabinets - Build Like A Pro Series
When you build your own cabinets
you’re not just saving money. You also can improve upon the
materials and construction used in factory-made cabinets, and get
exactly the sizes you want. And with the techniques that Udo Schimdt
demonstrates and explains, you can incorporate custom details in
your cabinets to make them even more distinctive. Arched doors,
custom cornice treatments, oversize pantry cabinets, and solid wood
end panels are just a few of the options to consider. |
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Built-In
Furniture
A Gallery of Design Ideas for
Built-In Furniture In Your Home. Here are some of the
best examples of built-in furniture and cabinetry for nearly every
room in the house. Jim Tolpin treats you to a room-by-room survey of
unique design solutions and strategies that you can use to add
functional and delightful built-ins to your home. Built-in
furnishings offer many advantages over freestanding furniture: They
are generally less expensive to build than stand-alone furniture of
the same type and size. They give you great latitude in designing
the look and function of your interior spaces -- you are not limited
to designing around existing furniture pieces. You can also maximize
the use of the most unusual spaces while creating an effective and
aesthetically pleasing design solution. |
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Chests
of Drawers
Plans and Complete Instructions
for Building Seven Classic Chests of Drawers. Chests of
drawers are one of the most popular woodworking projects. Although
they may seem complex and daunting, they are actually not difficult
to build, especially with the advice of a veteran woodworker.
This book includes step-by-step photos, clear building instructions,
cut lists, and measured drawings for each project. There is also a
bonus chapter on how to solve the challenges in building large case
pieces, as well as advice on creating original designs or adapting
the designs in this book. Whether you are a beginner or an
experienced woodworker, the projects will provide plenty of
challenges to increase your skills. You'll also find numerous tips
and jigs you can use on all your projects. |
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Chairmaking & Design
Techniques - VHS
Building Chairs for Comfort,
Strength and Style with Professional Chairmaking Techniques.
In this video, Jeff Miller demystifies the art of chairmaking.
You'll learn that the woodworking techniques for building many types
of chairs are just variations of common joinery. Jeff will show how
he builds comfort, strength, and good looks into three different
structural chair styles: framed chairs, post-and-rung chairs, and
chairs with plank seats. |
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Children's
Furniture Projects
Tasteful Projects for a
Childhood's Worth of Furniture. Building furniture for a
child is a special pleasure for a woodworker. And because kids need
safe and durable furniture sized to their needs, furniture for them
presents special challenges, too. Children's Furniture
Projects provides a mix of projects that has something for
woodworkers of all skill levels. The ten projects - ranging from a
fanciful rocking dinosaur to sturdy children's beds -- are designed
to help make the children's room as well furnished as any other room
in the house. Many of these projects have knockdown construction,
which makes the pieces easy to store once they are outgrown.
Detailed step-by-step instructions and photos explain how to
construct durable furniture that will last a whole childhood. |
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Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture & Cabinet
Making
A graphic, step-by-step presentation of basic furniture construction
techniques. Expert woodworker and writer Andy Rae takes
the construction of furniture and breaks it into components -- from
boxes, cases, doors and drawers to shelves and feet. He explains all
the techniques used to build them, so you can choose the ones that
are best for you. Then he shows you how to put the pieces together
to make great furniture. |
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Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
A comprehensive, step-by-step
pictorial reference on joinery.
There’s no more thorough and readable guide to joinery than this new
book from expert woodworker Gary Rogowski.
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery uses
full-color, step-by-step photo essays to show you how to make every
practical woodworking joint. Over 1,400 color photos and drawings
illustrate the methods, from simple butt joints to angled tenons and
complex scarf joints. |
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Complete Illustrated Guide to
Period Furniture Details
Building, Carving and Turning Techniques for 18th Century Furniture.
This new paperback expands on the techniques
covered in Shaping Wood. It covers joinery relating to
18th-century furniture styles, as well as the demanding techniques
required to complete ornate period pieces. Turning and carving, as
well as building accurately, are all included in a highly visual
format. Over 400 photos and drawings illustrate the methods -- from
half-blind dovetails to gooseneck moldings. If you love period
details and long to create them, you will want this book |
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Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
A comprehensive and graphic
wood shaping reference.
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Shaping Wood, Bird shows you how to dress up your furniture,
personalize your work and create period details. Learn to turn,
carve, bend, cut and shape with hand tools or machines. All the
techniques are in this accessible guide -- from cutting a simple
circle to carving a ball-and-claw foot. He leads you through
visualizing, drawing a shape and then choosing the appropriate tool
for creating it. |
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Designing and Building
Chairs
Learn to Design and Build
Comfortable, Long-Lasting Chairs. Chairs are ubiquitous,
found in every home, office, and building. Almost all are
commercially made since many woodworkers shy away from making
chairs, or even stools. Granted, there are not too many square parts
to most chairs, and compound angles are somewhat intimidating. But
the articles in this book, reprinted from Fine Woodworking
magazine, should help dispel any questions or fears you may have
about chair building. Not only can you build them, you can make them
better than the average commercially made models |
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Designing Furniture
Designing Well-Crafted, Pleasing
and Useful Pieces of Furniture. Designing a piece of
furniture should be fun. Yet woodworkers who think nothing of
building a complicated jig or mastering a difficult finish feel lost
when it comes to designing a piece of furniture. The articles in
this book will help you understand the basics of designing for both
form and function and learn approaches to planning your designs for
successful construction. |
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Dining
Tables
Plans and Complete Instructions
for Building Nine Dining Room Tables. Chairs are
ubiquitous, found in every home, office, and building. Almost all
are commercially made since many woodworkers shy away from making
chairs, or even stools. Granted, there are not too many square parts
to most chairs, and compound angles are somewhat intimidating. But
the articles in this book, reprinted from Fine Woodworking
magazine, should help dispel any questions or fears you may have
about chair building. Not only can you build them, you can make them
better than the average commercially made models |
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Dovetail A Drawer - DVD
Dovetail Joint
Techniques to Create Drawers That Fit. If it's
properly fitting drawers you're after, this is the dovetail video
workshop for you. Professional cabinetmaker Frank Klausz cuts quick,
precise dovetails without jigs or templates, then glues up and fits
the finished drawer. This 55 minute video teaches you how to make
perfect dovetail joints for drawers and cabinets without the need
for jigs or templates.
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Furniture
Great Furniture Designs from
Fine Woodworking. Find inspiration for your next project
in the pages of Furniture, a comprehensive survey of the best
designs that have appeared in the pages of Fine Woodworking.
In the course of putting this book together, the editors of Fine
Woodworking looked at numerous pieces that have appeared in the
magazine, then culled and compiled their favorites. The pieces vary
in style from gothic to contemporary and everything in between. Some
are large, some small. Some were built in a day and others took
months, but each was designed and built by woodworkers-evidence of
careful eyes and hands are all over this book. The makers range from
revered designers to humble builders working quietly in the corners
of their garages and basements. But each piece, in its own way,
succeeds. |
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Furniture For All
Around The House
A Collection of 19 Wood
Furniture Projects You Can Build Yourself. These
beautiful, well-designed furniture projects are specially selected
from six woodworking books: Tables, Bookcases, Beds, Chest of
Drawers, Desks, and Dining Tables. They will appeal to woodworkers
with a broad range of styles, including Shaker, Arts & Crafts, and
Contemporary. The projects, designed by some of America's best
woodworkers, will help build skills while resulting in furniture
worthy of passing down generations.
Highly detailed step-by-step
instructions, complete working drawings, and cut lists are included. |
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Furniture You Can Build
Improve Your Skills While
Enjoying Your Time in The Shop. Written Especially For Those Who
Can't Devote All Hours of Their Day to Woodworking.
Geared for real people - those who want to improve hand-tool and
machine skills, but not willing to embark on a seven-year
apprenticeship - this book is designed to help you enjoy your time
in the shop. As you work through these pages, you'll learn how to
work with and build on the skills and tools you already have. And
when the sawdust settles, you should also have a few attractive
pieces to add to your home or give to friends. My sincerest hope is
that someone may look at one of your projects and say, "Wow, you
made this yourself?" |
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The Shaker Style
Building Furniture Inspired By
The Shaker Tradition. Shaker furniture is beautiful, yet
simple, craftsmanship. In the Shaker Style, from the pages of
Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll find the ideas and
techniques of more than 15 contemporary artisans and instructions
for more than 10 projects, from Shaker chairs to bookcases. Detailed
illustrations and photographs accompany each project. In addition,
you'll see how distinctive Shaker details can be adapted for use in
today's furniture. |
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Machine and Hand Joinery
Learn Joinery Secrets to
Long-Lasting Joints Using Both Traditional Hand Tools and Modern
Machine Tools. The
concept of joinery is as old as recorded history. Furniture with
hand-cut dovetail joints has been found entombed with the mummies
dating back to ancient Egypt. Several thousand years later,
dovetails are still being used today to fasten objects of wood. The
fact that there are thousands and thousands of pieces from 18th
century still being used today shows just how durable good joinery
can be. In these articles collected by the editors of Fine
Woodworking magazine, you'll learn how to use your hand and
power tools to make tight joints that will help your furniture last
for generations. |
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Making
Kitchen Cabinets - DVD
Building High-Quality Kitchen Cabinets
in a Basement Shop. Watching Paul
Levine will convince you that creating a beautiful kitchen is as
easy as building one simple cabinet several times over. Levine's
system saves time, anticipates mistakes and allows for corrections.
All you need is access to a small workshop with a table saw a router
and some common hand tools. What's more, your cabinets will be as
handsome as they are strong, featuring sleek lines, hidden hinges,
colorful laminated surfaces and warm wood trim.
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Making Mortise and
Tenon Joints - DVD
Produce Clean and
Quick Mortise and Tenon Joints, By Hand or Machine.
Woodworkers rely on the versatile
mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools,
tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint
cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines.
Also Available In VHS Format |
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Refinishing Furniture -
VHS
Practical Wood
Finishing Techniques That Work. Bob Flexner gives
you a working knowledge of the practical and decorative aspects of
refinishing. He shows you when to rejuvenate an old finish, how to
remove a finish that has failed and how to refinish all of your fine
furniture. You will learn about: Reviving a finish, Stripping,
Preparing the surface, Staining, Sealing, Glazing, Finishing with
oil, shellac or lacquer, and Adjusting and repairing finishes. |
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Repairing Furniture -
VHS
Straightforward
Furniture Repair Techniques For Professional Results.
You don't need extensive furniture repair experience or an
elaborate shop to repair your own furniture. Bob Flexner
demonstrates straightforward furniture repair techniques you can use
to achieve professional results. Bob Flexner has demonstrated
furniture repair techniques in numerous workshops and on his own
local cable-television program. |
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Sam Maloof - DVD
See Sam Maloof at Work Building and See How
His Furniture Embodies His Ideas on Craftsmanship, Design and
Technique. Sam Maloof is one of the
fathers of contemporary woodworking. Now in this DVD profile of a
master craftsman, you can see Maloof at work and home, and see how
his furniture embodies his ideas on craft, design, and technique.
This visually rich documentary spans a week with Sam Maloof while he
builds and discusses his designs, including his much imitated Sam
Maloof signature rocker. Its an opportunity to savor the nuances and
substance that make Sam Maloof an inspiration to woodworkers
everywhere.
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Tage Frid Teaches
Woodworking Set - 3 Books with Bonus DVD
3 Volume Limited Edition Plus Bonus DVD of
Woodworking Expert Tage Frid Teaching Woodworking.
Through these three classic volumes, it's easy to see why we and
woodworkers the world over consider Tage Frid a most cherished
woodworking icon. His passion has inspired countless enthusiasts and
even shaped the course of the craft today. In this limited-edition
set (only 10,000 copies have been printed), the dean of American
woodworking teachers, Tage Frid, brings to your shop more than half
a century of woodworking insight and experience. You'll learn this
master's techniques through step-by-step photos, detailed drawings,
and thoughtful instruction. Set Includes Volumes on Joinery,
Shaping, Veneering & Finishing, and Furniture making.
DVD Also Available Separately |
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The Shaker
Legacy
Perspectives On An Enduring
Furniture Style. Clean, elegant lines and honest
functionality make Shaker furniture one of the most popular and
enduring furniture styles. The Shaker Legacy presents the
unique perspective of Chris Becksvoort, a leading expert in Shaker
furniture design, restoration, and reproduction. The heart of
The Shaker Legacy is an extensive visual tour of more than
140 classic Shaker pieces, many of which have never been previously
photographed for publication. Photographs taken on location at
various communities as well as rare material from Shaker archives
enrich the sections on Shaker history and belief. |
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Tables
Plans and Complete Instructions
for Building Ten Tables. From a Shaker sewing table to a
display table for art objects, Tables offers 10 excellent
reasons to spend quality time in the shop. Whether you are a
beginner or an experienced woodworker, the projects offered by
Anthony Giudice in this book will provide plenty of challenges to
increase your skills. The table projects include a candlestand, an
end table, a Shaker sewing table, two coffee tables, a display
table, a half-round console table, a hall table, a cherry kitchen
table, and a trestle table. |
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Treasure
Chests
The Legacy of Extraordinary
Boxes and Chests. Treasure Chests traces the
fascinating evolution of the boxes that have held the things that
people valued most over the centuries. From tool chests to toy
chests, this book celebrates how extraordinary a box can be when it
is meant to hold something we treasure. The chests in this book are
themselves treasures. Some are amazing for where they have been or
who used them. They are veterans of battlefields or the Ringling
Brothers circus. Others ingeniously execute the purpose for which
they were made -- tightly fitted tool chests and sea chests that
shed water. Many are finely designed, elegantly crafted, or made of
rare and costly materials. Beautifully photographed, each of the
more than 100 extraordinary chests included in this book has an
amazing story to tell. |
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Understanding Wood
A Craftsman's Guide to Wood
Technology.
The first edition of
Understanding Wood was published in 1980 and has since sold more
than 130,000 copies. It is widely held as a definitive reference
work and the cornerstone of every woodworker's library. Now, Bruce
Hoadley's comprehensive guide to wood technology has been revised
and updated in this 20th-anniversary edition of a classic. New
information on composite materials, adhesives, and finishes brings
this book into the 21st century, while more than 300 photographs
bring important visual information to life. This edition covers the
nature of wood and its properties, the basics of wood technology,
and the woodworker's raw materials. Understanding Wood was
written for woodworkers by a scientist with a love of woodworking.
It will be sought after by craftsmen and collectors alike. |
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Woodworking
Techniques
Learn to Assemble, Decorate and
Complete Fine Wood Furniture. Woodworking Techniques
brings together the best articles on the construction techniques
necessary for both amateurs and pros to assemble, decorate, and
complete fine furniture. The editors provide seasoned advice from
well-known experts in the field on every type of furniture project,
with special focus on details such as hinges and locks, moldings,
veneers, and inlay. Over 300
illustrations and photos help move projects from the idea stage to
reality. |
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