HOME SHOP WORK AND MANUAL TRAINING This work has been prepared with the idea of furnishing the home craftsman, amateur or professional, with a practical working handbook of sturdy furniture designs. All the designs contained in this large collection have been tested in actual work. The working drawings, just as given here, have been successfully car ried out by hundreds of manual training school lads, home craftsmen, and carpenter shop work ers. These designs have proved to be those best adapted to hand-made furniture work.
The description of each design includes an itemized stock bill, from which the exact mate rial needed may be ordered; completely detailed working drawings of all parts; and a simple and clear discussion, explaining just how the work should best be done and how the different pieces are put together. The proper kinds of wood to use, and the best way to finish them, are also told.
Following the plain directions herein given, anyone using ordinary care can produce sub stantial, home-made pieces of furniture of which he may justly feel proud.
Some simple pieces are detailed—very well worth while making, though easy of construc tion. Other pieces are more complicated, cal culated to tax the skill and ingenuity of the most experienced craftsmen. All of them will be found to be attractive, sturdy, and practical. They will furnish very enjoyable and profitable work for the amateur craftsman, and will solve for a good many carpenters that old problem— what to do in dull seasons.
In the pieces selected, there is no sequence of models, each description, with its accompany ing instructions, being complete in itself, so that the craftsman may begin work on any piece he chooses.