Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture: Authentic and Fully Detailed Plans for 61 Classic Pieces

by Robert W. Lang

Build furniture in the legendary Craftsman style! 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 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 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, 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!

Genres: Woodwork

344 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2012

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent collection of plans of traditional plans with some background and building advice, certainly better than my own sketchy efforts in this area. I especially like the Wright settles.



Too lazy to mortise!

[Christopher Hachet · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have used this to build furniture, great basic drawings.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I find the story and the creation of craftsman furniture very interesting and unique. The quality of the furniture built is so much better than today.