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Arts & Crafts Buffet

Recipe for successful design: Steal your ideas from the best. By Robert W. Lang Pages: 26-33From the October 2010 issue # 185 Buy this issue nowI designed this buffet cabinet a couple years ago for a weekend seminar on Arts & Crafts joinery. After the class I added a 3-D model to the Popular Woodworking Magazine online SketchUp collection. It was an easy way to provide detailed plans for those in attendance. As time passed, the model rose to the top of the collection, based on popularity.My goal in designing it was to combine several classic elements from the early 20th century, without building a reproduction of any one piece in particular. I was looking to design a piece with a contemporary feel, but that was grounded in traditional Arts & Crafts period elements. Apparently I swiped the right details from the right sources to make a successful piece.The wide overhanging top with breadboard ends, the fi nger-jointed drawer and the sculpted handles were all borrowed from the designs of Charles and Henry Greene. The proportions of the door stiles and rails were lifted right from the Gustav Stickley stylebook, and the double-tapered legs are a Harvey Ellis element turned upside down.Equally important are the overall proportions and the rounded edges that ease the transitions where there is a change of direction or a change in plane. The light color of the soft maple keeps the cabinet from looking too formal or too masculine. Absent are the elements often seen in new pieces based on old designs. Corbels and spindles were banished to the land of overused and misapplied design features.Video: Watch Bob's table saw techniques for cutting the drawer finger joints. Plan: Download a free 3-D model of this project in SketchUp format. Web site: Bob has written several books about Art & Craft furniture; they're all available from his web site. Blog: Read "Peart's Punches for Perfect Square Holes." In our store: "Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood of Light." Read more »

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Chuck Bender's Slant-lid Desk

This morning Chuck Bender from Acanthus Workshop stopped by the office on his way to deliver a piece of furniture to a client outside Cincinnati. After the traditional 15 minutes of Glen D. Huey and Chuck exchanging pastries (it’s Chuck’s birthday) and giving each other a rash of crap, Chuck let us have a little … Read more »

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White Water Meeting House Bench

This coming week I’m starting to build a pair of close reproductions of the White Water Shaker Meeting House benches. Earlier this summer I measured the original bench, which is in a building near the Meeting House. When I’m done with these reproductions, we’re donating the benches to the Friends of White Water Shaker Village, … Read more »

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Four Good Ways to Build Drawers

Our staff offers simple, strong and fast ways to make this important furniture component. By Christopher Schwarz & David Thiel Pages: 90-95 From the October 2004 issue #143 Buy this issue now In woodworking magazines, books and plans there’s almost always an omission that’s big enough to drive a truck through: How to build the … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/ming_dynasty_furniture/feed 0 Early 17th-century Swedish Joiner’s Benchhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/early-17th-century-swedish-joiners-bench http://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/early-17th-century-swedish-joiners-bench#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:31:11 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/Early+17thcentury+Swedish+Joiners+Bench.aspx
Early 17th-century Swedish Joiner's Bench

Alert reader Bengt Nilsson of Stockholm, Sweden, sent in this great photo of a joiner’s bench that was recovered from the Vasa , a Swedish battleship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. Nilsson took the photo while touring the Vasa Museum with an American exchange student. He estimates that the bench is about … Read more »

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After you’ve cut your top to size, you need to clean up the band-sawn edges using a router table, a straight bit and the shop-made jig shown here. First cut a piece of 1/4"-thick plywood to the same size as your top and attach it to the top using a spray adhesive. Nail the center of the 1/4" plywood to a sub-base of 3/4" plywood. My router table is part of my table saw setup, so I attached a miter bar to the 3/4" plywood, which allowed me to slide the jig into position. If you don’t have a miter slot, you might need to first clamp the jig in place and raise the router bit while it’s running to get your cut started.

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