Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised & Expanded Second Edition: Authentic and Fully Detailed Plans for 61 Classic Pieces (Fox Chapel Publishing) Complete Full-Perspective Views - Softcover

Robert W. Lang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497101107 ISBN 13: 9781497101104

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Build furniture in the legendary Craftsman style!

• 61 classic pieces of American furniture with complete working shop drawings
• Full perspective views, elevations, sections, details, & cutting lists, plus additional inlay designs and hardware drawings
• Original Stickley furniture pieces were measured to create these detailed plans not available from any other source
• Intermediate woodworkers can use these plans to build authentic replicas of valuable period pieces at low cost

This big 344-page book provides complete working shop drawings for 61 classic furniture pieces!

The author, a master cabinetmaker, measured original Craftsman antiques to create the detailed plans inside Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture. Every type of furniture is represented here: from trestle tables, love seats, and nightstands to corner cabinets, rockers, tabourets, and more!

Whether you know it as Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, or Mission, these sturdy, straightforward, and immensely popular designs have graced American homes for more than 100 years. This book, with its full perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists for each project, gives today's woodworkers the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic, along with all the information you'll need for workshop success! A bonus section on inlays and hardware offers original designs that add color, lyricism, and a graceful flourish to ever-popular Craftsman furniture.

For more than 30 years, professional woodworker and author Robert W. Lang has been the go-to source for complete working shop drawings of Arts & Crafts furniture pieces designed by Gustav Stickley and his associates early in the twentieth century. Lang, an expert furniture and cabinet maker and executive editor of Popular Woodworking, measured original Mission antiques to create detailed plans and published them in a series of Shop Drawing books. This revised and expanded second edition is a collection complied from three of his previous books: Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture; Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware; and More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture.

Inside this expanded edition, you'll find plans for 61 classic pieces, including:

• Beds
• Bookcases
• Bureaus
• Cabinets
• Chairs
• Chests
• Desks
• Dressers
• Footstools
• Inlays
• Nightstands
• Rockers
• Sideboards
• Stools
• Tables
• Wall shelves
• Wardrobes
• Craftsman Hardware

Packed with ideas for furnishings from the living room to the dining room to the bedroom, this Craftsman-style reference guide is your essential handbook to building Stickley furniture!

About this title

About the Author

Robert W. Lang is executive editor of Popular Woodworking magazine, a contributor to Fine Woodworking, and author of several woodworking books. He studied industrial design at The Ohio State University, and his experience includes building custom furniture and cabinets as well as managing and engineering large architectural millwork projects.

From the Back Cover

Build Furniture in the
Legendary Craftsman Style

For more than 30 years, professional woodworker and author Robert W. Lang has been the go-to source for complete working shop drawings of furniture pieces designed by Gustav Stickley and his associates early in the twentieth century.

Lang, an expert furniture and cabinet maker and former executive editor of Popular Woodworking, measured original Craftsman antiques to create detailed plans and published them in a series of Shop Drawing books. Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture compiles plans for 61 classic pieces of Arts & Crafts furniture from 3 of his previous books: Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware, and More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture.

With perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists for each project, this book gives today's woodworkers the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic, along with all the information needed for workshop success.

INSIDE THIS EXPANDED EDITION YOU'LL FIND PLANS
for 61 classic pieces, including:

• Beds
• Bookcases
• Bureaus
• Cabinets
• Chairs
• Chests
• Desks
• Dressers
• Footstools
• Inlays
• Nightstands
• Rockers
• Sideboards
• Stools
• Tables
• Wall shelves
• Wardrobes
• Craftsman Hardware

"One of the 27 books every woodworker should read."
—Fine Woodworking

"A highly recommended, do-it-yourself guide."
—Midwest Book Review

"I've been collecting and building Arts & Crafts furniture for more than a decade, and I've been waiting for a book like this."
—Christopher Schwarz, Popular Woodworking

"Lang understands the subtleties of Stickley's groundbreaking designs."
—Woodworker's Journal

"This collection of drawings for Craftsman furniture is a must-have title if you like the style."
—Popular Mechanics

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1497101107
• ISBN 13: 9781497101104
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344