. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. lighter wood as a distinctive feature. The bottom consists ofa board shouldered out to receive the corner posts and the sidesand back are secured to it by sunk screws and glue corner back may be made up of basswood into a paneled framelike front door. The disposition of shelving is much to be de-cided by personal needs and ideas and in view of the prevalenceof automatic piano players and phonographs, some thoughtmight be given to spacing for such records. Little need be said of the three forms of book holders exce
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. lighter wood as a distinctive feature. The bottom consists ofa board shouldered out to receive the corner posts and the sidesand back are secured to it by sunk screws and glue corner back may be made up of basswood into a paneled framelike front door. The disposition of shelving is much to be de-cided by personal needs and ideas and in view of the prevalenceof automatic piano players and phonographs, some thoughtmight be given to spacing for such records. Little need be said of the three forms of book holders exceptthat they suggest quickly-made articles for friends, or the variousmembers of the family, for the holding of choice personal andoften-used books. From their size some cherished piece of woodmay enter into the construction, and in the making and after-finish develop some hidden beauty of color and grain. STOOLS AND OTHER USEFUL FURNITURE 111 Fig. 131 is an instance of some simple form in which rare grainmarking often occurs when wood is worked into a simple undu-. FiG. 131.—Book Blocks. lating surface. The three blocks when fitted and glued up formthe end of a hook support which is simply used for a few favoredbooks on ones sitting room table. Fig. 132 shows a colonial
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