. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. impel our craftsmenfriends to prepare plans for the making of a reading table afterthe suggestion shown in Figs. 152 and 153. I am a little in-clined to think that the main parts of some of these tables whichare sold are built entirely too light, for while they are intendedto draw easily toward you and adjust to the distance and angleof ones vision, yet they should have at least the four postsstrong enough that they would not break or part company withbase or top. Care then should be given to the joinery to make the con-stru
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. impel our craftsmenfriends to prepare plans for the making of a reading table afterthe suggestion shown in Figs. 152 and 153. I am a little in-clined to think that the main parts of some of these tables whichare sold are built entirely too light, for while they are intendedto draw easily toward you and adjust to the distance and angleof ones vision, yet they should have at least the four postsstrong enough that they would not break or part company withbase or top. Care then should be given to the joinery to make the con-struction firm, but as light and graceful as consistent, andit may be that some of our readers may desire to put inturned posts instead of those indicated. Mortising the longrails into the posts, and using dowels for securing the end railsinto the posts will lock one into the other and also save thestrength of the posts. 126 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN Personal requirements should be considered as to not onlythe fixed height, but the extreme width inside between Fig. 152 Fig. 153 Fig. 152, 153 and 154.—Elevations and Details of a Reading Table. Some particularly restful armchair or rocker would determinethis. The width should be sufficient to allow of the table beingdrawn readily over the arms, which frequently are more than30 in. over all, in a Morris chair for instance. It will be seen that the three parts of the table rest upon theframing of the rails to the posts, the two outside portions ofthe top being securely held thereto by screws counterboredthrough rails, while glued corner blocks may give the framinggreater stiffness. The center of the table is a frame filled with a larger fixedpanel shown at A in Fig. 154, and the smaller, shown at B isloose and swivels on steel pins properly located so that it maybe swung up at right angles when needed to rest the book fitting and adjusting of this swing piece is clone in connec-tion with fitting up the frame, and w
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