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Blog entry by moshel posted 330 days ago 939 reads 7 times favorited 9 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I couldn’t find any reference for this on the site, so if I am re-posting the obvious, please forgive me.

Project Gutenburg has 3 very detailed books on building mission furniture. they contain detailed plans (although not as detailed as some modern books) and they have LOTS of plans in them. The construction ideas are also very enlightening and worth browsing through (for example this swing)

to make a long story short:

Mission Furniture
HOW TO MAKE IT
by H.H. WINDSOR

PART I
PART II
PART III

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...


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daltxguy

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posted 330 days ago

Nice find, Moshe!

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

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Steelmum

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posted 330 days ago

Nice find indeed! I got lost there for a little while. I will be going back there again and again!!

-- Berta in NC

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moshel

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posted 330 days ago

I know what you mean – its 1:00 at night here….

if you really want to get lost, look at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21531/21531-h/21531-h.htm
zillion joints and the last section is about the construction details of many Chinese and western puzzles

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

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drgoodwood

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posted 330 days ago

These old books offer some great insight in to how “Mission” furniture was made.

I have these books in pdf format and as reprints.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

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Robert

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posted 330 days ago

Nice Find! Always good to ‘go to the source’.

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clieb91

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posted 329 days ago

Thanks for the link a goldmine of information.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

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Karson

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posted 329 days ago

I’m using a pdf print drivver on my computer so I fview the page and then print it as a pdf and then store that on my computer. A nice way to capture the data.

Thanks for the find.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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moshel

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posted 329 days ago

its good, but i would have liked the pdf to have the html hyperlinks into the text. for some reason this does not work properly with html2pdf converters i used.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

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drgoodwood

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posted 329 days ago

Note: This series is also available as a reprint book from

Lee Valley

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

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