Cabinetmaking: The Professional Approach - Hardcover

Peters, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025962000 ISBN 13: 9780025962002

Publisher: Scribner, 1986

Synopsis

Tells how to set up a professional woodworking shop, discusses finances, furniture, design, commissions, and batch production, and includes instructions for making stools, tables, dressers, chairs, and desks

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Reviews

Peters, a British craftsman, takes a "biographical" approach in advising readers about establishing a furniture workshop, equipping it, and managing the business side. He offers good information on his particular methods of designing, finding customers, working to commissions, training help, and batching production so as to have work when business is slow. After describing his own preferred techniques of construction, gluing, veneering, and finishing, Peters gives brief instructions and plans for building a dining table and chairs, a student's desk, and six other projects. While interesting, the material on the British craft movement, vocational training, and British business-labor laws will be of little use to an American reader seeking advice on starting a cabinet-furniture shop. W. T. Johnston, Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga .
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025962000
• ISBN 13: 9780025962002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 197