- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books; 1 edition (April 10 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558705937
- ISBN-13: 978-1558705937
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 22.1 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #657,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Using time-tested woodworking techniques like mortise-and-tenon joinery and solid-wood cabinet construction, wood-workers can build furniture pieces that will last a life-time.
Fine Furniture for a Lifetime teaches them the skills they need to construct and finish traditional Shaker and country furniture. All 10 projects are fun to build and will add elegance to any home.
Glen Huey provides step-by-step instructions and photos for every project including a Philadelphia tall chest, a Shaker sewing desk, a John Seymour sideboard, a Queen Anne dropleaf dining table, a Townsend height chest and more!
About the Author
Glen Huey has been creating furniture for over twenty-five years. Specializing in 18th and 19th century reproduction furniture, he is a regular contributing editor for Popular Woodworking magazine. Glenn has also had pieces featured in other national magazines such as Early American Life and Country Living. He lives in Middletown, Ohio.
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AS YOU EXAMINE THE PROJECTS throughout this book, you will find that there are a number of similarities that arise. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
AS YOU EXAMINE THE PROJECTS throughout this book, you will find that there are a number of similarities that arise. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Every design is an elegant and beautiful classic piece.,
By Calm See (Burlingame, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Paperback)
This book is a standout because every piece in it is an elegant classic worthy of the effort required to build it. I don't know of any other book for which I'd make that assertion. More often books have just a few designs that meet the requirements of truly elegant proportions, classic design and practical utility for a modern home, while the majority of plans given are historically interesting but often display awkward proportions and have little practical value for the way we live now, and the spaces we live in. Not all old designs are good designs! The title of this book, "Fine Furniture for a Lifetime," is appropriate because the designs are so excellent that you'll never in your lifetime come to the realization that you've outgrown them, which can happen with lesser designs. Instead, I think you'll appreciate them more as your design sense matures.The author's constructed examples are beautifully done, from what is often magnificent wood. The process photographs are clear and informative. The construction steps are well organized and presented. Suggested techniques are professional. I do have one criticism, and that's regarding the drawings. All of them are done as an exploded view, and in perspective. Only a few dimensions are given on the drawings. You're required to refer to a separate cutting list to get the actual measurements. There are no straight on elevation or plan drawings. These drawings are well done, and together with the cutting lists the information's all there. But you have to labor intellectually a bit more than otherwise necessary to make sense of it. This is in contrast to the furniture drawings of Carlyle Lynch or Franklin Gottshall, for example, who do give you fully dimensioned plan and elevation drawings, and also perspective exploded views where needed. But in my opinion the designs in this book justify the additional effort required. If you build any one of the ten designs in this book it will have been well worth the price. Build a few of them and you'll have a bargain. Judging by the very inexpensive used copies listed here as I write this, this book hasn't gotten the acceptance or respect it deserves.
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Great new way of writing How-to Books,
By Karson Morrison (Ringoes, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Paperback)
Great book, I've not made anything from it, but I like the new way that they are printing these How-To books. Lots of pictures 4-5 per page with assembly instructions explaining the pictures. It makes it easier than 2-3 pages of instructions, and you guessing how it all goes together.
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Tree books are the exact same,
By Nean Derthal "nean" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Paperback)
Illustrated Guide to Building Period Furniture and Building 18th Century American Furniture and Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Popular Woodworking) are the same book. I bought the tree at the same time not knowing that.This is a racket.
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BUY THIS BOOK!!!,
By K. David Griessmann "DaveG" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Paperback)
This is one of the best woodworking books out there. You not only learn how to build several projects but you learn the art of case construction!
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Excellent Guide to Building Fine Furniture,
By PCon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fine Furniture for a Lifetime (Paperback)
I own this book and "Building Fine Furniture" (also by Glen Huey). They are both very detailed, providing complete cut lists, exploded diagrams of each piece, and thorough instructions with plenty of pictures.I haven't built any of the pieces in the book, but I've use several of the techniques described in other pieces. |
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