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
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daltxguy
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posted 330 days ago
Nice find, Moshe!
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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!!
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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
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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.
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Robert
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posted 330 days ago
Nice Find! Always good to ‘go to the source’.
clieb91
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posted 329 days ago
Thanks for the link a goldmine of information.
CtL
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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.
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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.
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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
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