Fine Woodworking on making period furniture : 37 articles selected by the editors of Fine Woodworking magazine / edited by John Kelsey. - Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, 1985. - 122 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - Fine woodworking . - Fine woodworking book .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- In search of period furniture makers -- Two reproductions -- Lester Margon's measured drawings -- Wallace nutting -- Variations in 18th-century casework -- Post-and-panel chests -- Queen Anne -- Design sources -- Questions & Answers -- Measured drawings -- Inventing the coffee table -- Contour tracer -- Cabriole templates -- Applying classical proportions -- Grand highboys -- Tall chests -- A small highboy -- Cabriole legs -- Questions & Answers -- Claw and ball feet -- Making the feet -- Questions & Answers -- Pillar-and-claw table -- Cutting tapered reeds -- A southern huntboard -- Questions & Answers -- The blockfront -- Building blockfronts -- Boston Bombe chest -- How to make slope-sided boxes -- Building a secretaire bookcase -- Hidden drawers -- Straightening up an old secretary -- What to do with a walnut beam -- Scratch beader -- Moldings -- Radial-Sawn curved moldings -- Clock tops on the radial saw -- Antiqued pine furniture -- Tall-case clock -- Period furniture hardware.

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Furniture making.
Antiques--Reproduction.

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