Arts & Crafts Furniture Anyone Can Make by David Thiel

By David Thiel

Furnishings doesnt must be complex to be reliable taking a look. by way of lowering vintage Arts & Crafts furnishings designs to their fundamentals, then including easy, screw-together joinery, a person can construct great-looking furnishings. utilizing easy instruments (jigsaw, miter observed or round observed and a cordless drill) whilst a first-time woodworker you could effectively create a section of furnishings in a weekend that youll proudly exhibit for years.
Each of the normal (and a few unique) have designs in Arts & Crafts furnishings someone could make were adjusted for measurement to deal with the traditional poplar, purple oak or pine forums available at your neighborhood domestic middle. The forums are bought reduce to thickness and width, so with many of the initiatives all you want to do is minimize the items to size and positioned them jointly. Even the finishes used are «off-she-shelf,» hoping on stains, paints and end coats which are bought in any domestic middle, and are effortless to apply.
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Right up there with the select pine. So I picked through the cheaper boards to find the best. After carefully matching the boards for best edges (for glueup) and for grain match, I glued the panels for the top, the shelves and for the two sides. The shelves and two sides are sized to finish at 11"-wide, which is two 1×6s glued together. The top was two 1×8s that were then ripped to finish width. PUTTING IT TOGETHER Construction was pretty straightforward. After cutting the finished panels to length I used pocket screws to attach the three shelves between the two sides.

Chiseling the entire slot out sounded like too much work, so I looked around at my tools and decided my biscuit jointer would work nicely. 32 Z7617i_pg026-033 Gamble House Mi32 32 9/23/10 4:24:29 PM G A MBL E H OU SE M IRROR 13 After clamping the piece tightely, I set the fence of my biscuit jointer to make the first cut starting 1⁄4" down from the top. With the tool set to make a cut for a No. 20 biscuit, I centered the tool and plunged from first one side, and then the other. 14 15 16 To clean up the ends of the slots, I did need to use a mallet and chisel, but that was an easy task compared to clearing the whole slot by hand.

Because of this I’ve acquired a few smaller files and rasps. The one shown in photo 11 gets used a lot. The rounded face works great for corbels, and the flat side smooths out the transition from round-to-flat on the piece. The next step is to assemble the base frames. To do this, I used countersunk and plugged screws through the edges of the legs and into the ends of the stretchers. Because the legs are 11∕2" wide, I needed to use 21∕2" screws to make a solid joint. I adjusted the length of my countersink bit to make sure I would properly pre-drill the hole.

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