Shaker Furniture

by Time-Life Books

Like the architectural elements of antiquity, the beauty and truth of Starker design are most evident in basic forms.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809495333
• ISBN13: 9780809495337
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Shaker Furniture

As an amature woodworker interested in plans and methods for building Shaker style furniture, I found this book very informative. It includes precise instructions for building two Shaker style chairs, a bench, three tables, a pie safe, a clock, a step stool, oval boxes and a pegboard. It also includes directions for making jigs to simplify the the construction of several of the projects. The jig for routing dovetails for a candlestand collumn while it is still on the lathe was shown in greater detail than I have seen before. The diagrams and illustrated step-by-step instrctions are easy to understand and show construction details that mere measured drawings do not. For instance, the methods for hanging a drawer and attaching a table top were especially interesting to me since they were a little different than what I commonly see. This is a book written for amature woodworks like myself who appreciate well documented plans for interesting and usefull pieces of furniture.