Designing and Building Furniture & Cabinets
This is our Lübeck Haus Bookstore catalogue pages for woodworking, fine furniture and cabinet construction.
Our customer service staff has selected some of the most informative, useful and popular books for the professional carpenter, furniture makers, cabinet carpenters, home owner and the do-it-yourselfer.
These books cover fine furniture design and construction, choosing and installing hardware, general woodworking, wood identification, wood joinery, proper tools, furniture finishing, equipment and maintenance, and several other books that deal with furniture and repairs.
Several excellent books from the Taunton's, The Complete Illustrated Guide Series are included. Two include, Furniture and Cabinet Construction, and The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery, and will be a welcome addition to any woodworking collection.
These books are designed to give the reader a good solid background of knowledge on each topic. These books present this information in a clearly written manner usually accompanied with excellent photographic work.
We recommend these books because many of them are on our bookshelves and our workbenches. We refer to and use them ourselves in our woodworking shops.
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- The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction
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- -Andy Rae / Hardcover 308 pages / Published October 2001
This is an indispensable guide from Taunton Press for the beginning as well as more advanced woodworkers. This ultimate reference is a graphic, step-by-step presentation of basic furniture-construction techniques. Presents complete high-quality photographs illustrating each step-by-step instructions for creating expertly made furniture and cabinets.
Well organizing concepts and contents, and explaining the most technical of terms in plain English. Techniques and tips are presented in a range of skill options, catering to both novice and highly professional craftspeople.
Readers will acquire a working knowledge of woodworking materials, a higher level of control over their work and tools, and an understanding of basic design principles.
This second installment of a three-volume set guide joins the first and third in offering woodworkers of all competencies a great set of reference books.
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- The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
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- -Gary Rogowski / Hardcover 320 pages / Published January 2002
This is one of Taunton Press's the Complete Illustrated guide series. Each joint type is discussed in some detail, covering both the theory behind the working of the joint and discussions of how to make the joints. This book is well illustrated with emphasis on both techniques and quality.
The book is divided into three parts:
- Tools (hand tools, small power tools, and machines)
- Carcase Joinery (butt, rabbet, groove, dado, miter, finger, mortise-and-tenon, and dovetail joints)
- Frame Joinery (butt, miter, lap, bridle, scarf, splice, edge, and mortise-and-tenon). durability in the binding.
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- The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood (Complete Illustrated Guide Series, Vol 1 )
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- -Lonnie Bird / Hardcover 304 pages / Published October 2001
This is the first volume in Taunton's three-part "Complete Illustrated Guides" series which is intended as a bench-top reference guide showing the many ways of shaping wood. Including cutting, edge treatments, decorative techniques, turning, and carving. Techniques of all types and complexity are covered, usually including several means to accomplish each task, such as using hand or power tools. Profusely illustrated with drawings and photos, this book offers something for every woodworker.
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- Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making (Complete Illustrated Guide Series)
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- -Doug Stowe / Paperback 160 pages / Published June 2004
Taunton's Complete Illustrated guide to Box Making presents both small and large projects. This book covers how to create boxes in different shapes, Japanese puzzle boxes, and band-sawn boxes.
Covers all of the major components of a box, the joinery, the lid, the base and feet, hinges & hardware, and the interior all get detailed treatment within their own chapters.
500 color photos are featured in this clear and comprehensive woodworking guide.
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- Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Finishing (Complete Illustrated Guide Series)
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- -Jeff Jewitt, Susan Jewitt / Hardcover 304 pages / Published February 2004
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Finishing features advanced techniques on controlling and adjusting color, disguising defects, and repairing finishes. Covers everything from the right brushes and spray guns, to the proper techniques for sanding molded edges by hand, to the difference between glazing and toning. This clear and comprehensive volume for woodworkers includes 850 color photos as well as 30 color illustrations.
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- Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Installing Hardware
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- -Robert J. Settich / Paperback 224 pages / Published September 2003
This is a comprehensive guide to choosing and installing hardware. Choosing hardware can be fun and creative, but selecting the right hardware for a job can be difficult, even for the most experienced woodworker. Installing it is properly can be something else again. This comprehensive book covers the entire range of hardware, including common household pieces such as locks, pulls, and handles, all presented in a straightforward style. Covers everything from the simplest nail or screw to the more arcane worlds of locks, slides, and hinges. Over 700 step-by-step photos and drawings accompanied by exacting instructions ease the installation process. Tips and quick access guides help readers find the exact information they need right away.
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- Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Period Furniture Details
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- -Lonnie Bird / Paperback 144 pages / Published September 2003
This excellent book expands on the techniques covered in Shaping Wood, a title in the enormously successful Complete Illustrated Guides series. It covers joinery relating to 18th century furniture styles, as well as the demanding techniques required to complete ornate period pieces. Turning and carving, as well as building accurately, are all included in a highly visual format. Anyone who loves period details and longs to create them will want this book.
300 color photos and drawings are featured.
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- Measured Drawings of Eighteenth-Century American Furniture
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- -Ejner Handberg / Paperback 67 pages / Published June 1993
This book presents detailed drawings of beautiful New England pieces. And is a companion volume to the famous Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware. This book is a carefully detailed guide to fine eighteenth century American furniture with measured drawings that will enable you to make accurate reproductions.
Newly reprinted and supplemented by a foreword by Paul Kleinwald, this book is of enduring interest to furniture makers, antiques lovers, libraries, and museums.
Measured Drawings of Eighteenth Century American Furniture and Woodenware
Large scale plans for 54 fine pieces including cherry desk, tall clock, and gate leg table.
This book includes careful advice on the selection and drying of wood and provides accurate scale drawings of such pieces as:
- Mahogany Tall Case Clock
- Cherry Slant-Front Desk
- Cherry Lowboy Butterfly Table
- Dresser and Mirror
- Tambour Desk Windsor Chair with Writing Arm
- Cherry Tip-top Table
- Pine Chest Cherry Bonnet Top Highboy
- Cherry Chest
- Maple Candlestand Continuous Arm Windsor Chair
- Cherry Desk and Bookcase
- Gate-leg Dining Table Cherry Chest on Chest
- Chest with Two Drawers Below
- Maple Highboy Cherry Chest of Drawers
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- Making Antique Furniture Reproductions : Instructions and Measured Drawings for 40 Classic Projects
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- -Franklin H. Gottshall / Paperback 256 pages / Published September 1994
This well planned guide book provides step-by-step instructions to enable even beginners to build copies of the furniture masterpieces made by Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Phyfe, and other celebrated craftsmen. Covers furniture construction fundamentals, tools, selecting wood, hardware, joinery, dovetailing, finishing, much more. Complete with detailed and precise construction drawings with exact measurements and full explanation of all procedures.
Includes over 500 illustrations.
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- Gentleman and Cabinet Maker Director
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- -Thomas Chippendale / Paperback 249 pages, 3rd edition / Published June 1966
This large catalog style paperback book is a classic and is an excellent reference for architecture, furniture and design. Black drawing on newsprint paper, this book was a catalog of Thomas Chippendale's furniture shop in England and gives detailed motifs for the antique dealer and cabinet maker alike.
This is perhaps the single most historically significant book on furniture design ever written, and no furniture library would be complete without it.
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