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Fine Woodworking on making period furniture : 37 articles selected by the editors of Fine Woodworking magazine / edited by John Kelsey.

Contributor(s): Kelsey, John, 1946-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Fine woodworking book: Publisher: Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, 1985Description: 122 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0918804302.Subject(s): Furniture making | Antiques -- ReproductionDDC classification: 748.10287
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 748.10287 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00071240
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text includes 32 articles for plans of favorite old pieces such as a small highboy and a tall-case clock, and how to reproduce cabriole legs, elaborate mouldings and other key elements.

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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