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How Furniture works:

  • Posts(stile)
  • Rails
  • Stretchers
  • Surface

Many sticks in furniture- but many repeat- make repeating parts together

Mortise and Tenon Joinery

Dowels

Make a simple table with centimeter sticks, cardboard, 1/8" dowels-how furniture works

  • Rustic Furniture
  • The mortise and Tenon
  • Types of bases- U stretchers, H-stretchers

Build 1/3 scale furniture

 

 

Deacon's Bench by Dovetail

Side tables by Dovetail

bench by dovetail

Above- Table by Wayne Hall

 

 

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Center for Furniture Craftsmanship

Artist Furniture

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Revised January 2011 by Jonathan Dietz, dietzj@mail.weston.org