Synopses & Reviews
How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works 'Ideas and Inspiration. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. The essence of more than 100 classic furniture pieces is captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings. 'Standards. Take the guesswork out of designing kitchen cabinets, dining tables, desks, bookcases, and chests by applying the time-honored dimension and ergonomic standards shown here. 'Options and Alternatives. With more than 150 joints and subassemblies at your fingertips, you'll be able to easily alter a projects appearance or construction. 'Construction Solutions. More than 1,300 drawings take you inside furniture and show you classic solutions to age-old problems, such as: hanging a drawer, attaching a tabletop, pegging a mortise. 'Plans. If you don't have the time or inclination to design your own furniture, check out the sources we provide for specific plans for most of the furniture pieces shown.
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"For the advanced woodworker, [this] is a treasure trove of project ideas. Recommended for woodworking collections in any library." --"Library Journal"
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This book is the "Gray's Anatomy" of woodworking.
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Illustrated Cabinetmaking, by Bill Hylton, is a visual reference to take the guesswork out of designing kitchen cabinets, desks, bookcases and chests by applying the time-honored dimension and ergonomic standards presented. It features hundreds of drawings, which provide "classic" solutions to age old construction problems. For example, the book presents at least five ways to hang a drawer and four ways to attach a table top. A section covers more than 100 joints, while the "subassemblies" section explains how to use those joints to assemble tabletops, doors, drawers and more. The Furniture section explains how to combine joints and subassemblies to construct more than 100 pieces. It also provides rule-of-thumb design standards, such as the height of a dining table and the depth of kitchen cabinets, tips for altering designs, and sources for locating published plans.
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With more than 100 project plans for everything from tables to beds to built-ins, woodworker Hylton's (Router Magic) exhaustive primer, whose original, 1998 edition is now out of print, still has great value for any woodworking collection. He begins with a brief introduction to period style, then covers joinery in depth. There are no glamour shots, only clear, black and white drawings for assembly and measurements. Exploded view drawings highlight each piece's details and special features. Because of the few instructions on construction, this is not a book for beginners; rather, it is a collection of patterns with citations to additional offerings in other books and publications. For the advanced woodworker, it is a treasure trove of project ideas. Recommended for woodworking collections in any library.
Synopsis
Design and construct furniture that works. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. 100 classic furniture pieces are captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings.
Synopsis
Design and construct furniture that works with the help of the most complete visual guide ever published. Featuring each piece in highly-detailed, exploded drawings and applying time-honored dimensions and ergonomic standards, this comprehensive visual sourcebook takes the guesswork out of furniture joinery, assembly, dimension, and style. Woodworkers of any skill level will benefit from more than 1,300 crisp and detailed drawings that explain classic solutions to age-old problems, such as hanging a drawer, attaching a tabletop, and pegging a mortise. Covering hundreds of pieces of furniture, including kitchen cabinets, dining tables, desks, bookcases, and chests, readers will unlock the mysteries of legs, moldings, separate braces, and dozens of other subassemblies.
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Shop-tested expert advice for amateur woodworkers on how to build their own kitchen cabinets, and on how to make and install kitchen upgrades, culled from 35 articles that appeared in American Woodworker magazine, originally published between 1999 and 2010. American Woodworker has made its mark as the go-to magazine for woodworkers building and installing built-in cabinetry for kitchens and similar spaces in the home. Readers will learn how to make cabinets from plywood, how to make many styles of cabinet door including popular cathedral doors, how to build and install drawers, which hardware to choose, how to make and edge laminate countertops, and how to install the completed results. Includes small projects such as simple kitchen upgrades, plus an appliance garage, a kitchen stool and a freestanding pantry.
Synopsis
The most complete visual guide to furniture construction ever published! Includes hundreds of clearly-labeled drawings and exploded diagrams that explain everything there is to know about joints, subassemblies and furniture design.
About the Author
Bill Hylton is a longtime woodworker and woodworking writer. He writes a column on power tool joinery for Popular Woodworking magazine and is a frequent contributor to Woodworker's Journal. He is a renowned authority on the use of the router and router table. His book, Router Magic, is the bestselling router book of all time.
Table of Contents
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1. Building Kitchen Cabinets
* Face frame cabinets
* Frameless cabinet joinery
* 8 tips for building face frames
* Building cabinets with pocket-hole joinery
* Iron-on edge banding
* Tips for Edging
2. Making Doors and Drawers
* Frame and panel door
* Slot and spline paneled door
* Divided light doors
* Making cathedral doors
* Making curved doors
* Flush-fit cabinet doors
* Making lipped drawers
3. Hinges and Hardware
* How to hang inset doors
* Buying euro hinges
* Adjusting European hinges
* Router-made door and drawer pulls
* Installing shelf supports
* Drawer slides
* Easy ways to add roll-outs
* Under-cabinet lighting
4. Laminate and Countertops
* Working with plastic laminate
* Working with melamine
* Perfect butt joints
* Applying tee molding
* Wood edging on laminated tops
5. Installing Cabinets
*Install cabinetry and shelving like a pro
*Precision 3-wall scribes
*Solo cabinet hanging
*Fitting frameless into a corner
*Retrofit vertical drawers
*Sticky drawer slides
*Universal slide jig
6. Cabinetmaking Projects
*Simple kitchen upgrades
*Weekend kitchen projects
*3 kitchen storage projects
*Sycamore pantry
*Appliance garage
*Kitchen stool \n
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