Image from Google Jackets
Normal view MARC view

Designing and building chairs / editors of Fine woodworking magazine.

Series: The New best of fine woodworkingPublication details: Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, 2006.Description: 155 p. : ill. (some col) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781561588572 (pbk.) :
  • 1561588571 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Fine woodworking.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT197.5.C45 D47 2006
Contents:
Section 1 : Chair Making Basics -- Chair making simplified / Garrett Hack -- Compound-angle joinery / Will Neptune -- Working green wood / Harriet Hodges -- Shaping the arm of a chair / Sam Maloof -- Building a basic stool / Harriet Hodges -- Jigs for joints on curving parts / Brian Boggs -- Built for comfort : the three-slat chair / Christian H. Becksvoort -- Building a chair, Arts and Crafts style Rex Alexander -- Section 2 : Making Chair Seats -- Sculpting chair seats with a shop-built duplicator / Dan Trimble -- A slim, comfortable slip seat / Michael Fortune -- Carve a softwood seat / Curtis Fortune -- Weaving a cane seat / Judy Warner -- Coopering a chair seat / Charles Argo -- Weaving Shaker tape seats / Glenn A. Carlson -- Section 3 : A light settee in cherry / Matthew Teague -- Post-and-rung stool / Brian Boggs -- Shaker rocker / Ernie Conover -- Oval Chippendale stool / Randall O'Donnell -- Bowback Windsor step by step / Harriet Hodges -- The Shaker revolver / Mario Rodriguez

Section 1 : Chair Making Basics -- Chair making simplified / Garrett Hack -- Compound-angle joinery / Will Neptune -- Working green wood / Harriet Hodges -- Shaping the arm of a chair / Sam Maloof -- Building a basic stool / Harriet Hodges -- Jigs for joints on curving parts / Brian Boggs -- Built for comfort : the three-slat chair / Christian H. Becksvoort -- Building a chair, Arts and Crafts style Rex Alexander -- Section 2 : Making Chair Seats -- Sculpting chair seats with a shop-built duplicator / Dan Trimble -- A slim, comfortable slip seat / Michael Fortune -- Carve a softwood seat / Curtis Fortune -- Weaving a cane seat / Judy Warner -- Coopering a chair seat / Charles Argo -- Weaving Shaker tape seats / Glenn A. Carlson -- Section 3 : A light settee in cherry / Matthew Teague -- Post-and-rung stool / Brian Boggs -- Shaker rocker / Ernie Conover -- Oval Chippendale stool / Randall O'Donnell -- Bowback Windsor step by step / Harriet Hodges -- The Shaker revolver / Mario Rodriguez

Includes index.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
  • Monday - Friday
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Saturday - Sunday
  • Closed
  • Phone: +971 431 83183
  • Email: Library@aud.edu
  • Address: Sheikh Zayed Road -- P.O. Box 28282, Dubai, AE
  • Map & Directions