. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. a modifiedtype fitting in well withthe Mission, Quaintor Arts and Crafts styleso prevalent. The simplegeneral form is one per-mitting various changesin leg treatment and shapeof outline to apron, theinterposition of turningabove and below thestretchers of a charactersimilar to the EarlyEnglish or Jacobeanpatterns shown on page,14, will enable the inter-ested reader to produce avariety of styles of thismost useful table andstool to match. An undershelf in table provides for the tele-phone book. The top, shelves and side rails
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. a modifiedtype fitting in well withthe Mission, Quaintor Arts and Crafts styleso prevalent. The simplegeneral form is one per-mitting various changesin leg treatment and shapeof outline to apron, theinterposition of turningabove and below thestretchers of a charactersimilar to the EarlyEnglish or Jacobeanpatterns shown on page,14, will enable the inter-ested reader to produce avariety of styles of thismost useful table andstool to match. An undershelf in table provides for the tele-phone book. The top, shelves and side rails are of ^ The table stand is so made with the side strainersor stretchers provided with a groove and projecting lower lip tocarry top of stool when it is slid in out of the way. A i ^ § in. holeis bored into center of stool top to facilitate withdrawing it. Awooden arm represented in C and a turned disk to hold tele-phone stand is secured by a bolt with nut and washers totable top at back so that instrument may be swung back orforward for CHAPTER II i ^/ ESSENTIAL TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT ORNAMENT ON FURNITURE O later call attention to certain essential tools, an aptsubject for illustration is the hall seat, this beinglargely within the province of the joiner and thegeneral scheme of interior case work, and indeed itmay be made a feature of the wainscot of the hallif so desired. In this instance we will consider it as a movablepiece and use it as a model with which to convey to the readercertain information regarding detail which he will doubtless ap-preciate if he proceeds to lay out the drawing and construct style is plain, almost severe, as shown in Fig. 66, thecharm depending solely on the easy line of the end piece andfoot in its relation to thearm. The rare beauty ingood furniture is to cre-ate that smooth round-ness or undulating surfacewhich the worker, an en-thusiast, alone knows hasnot been produced success-fully by mere is
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