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Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 1300 Drawings & Diagrams for Drawers, Tables, Beds, Bookcases, Cabinets, Joints & Subassemblies

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Design and construct furniture that works with the help of the most complete visual guide ever published! It's all here:Ideas and Inspiration. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. The essence of more than 100 classic furniture pieces is captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings.Standards. Take the guesswork out of designing kitchen cabinets, dining tables, desks, bookcases, and chests by applying the time-honored dimension and ergonomic standards shown here.Options and Alternatives. With more than 150 joints and subassemblies at your fingertips, you'll be able to easily alter appearance or construction of any project.Construction Solutions. More than 1,300 drawings take you inside the furniture and show you classic solutions to age-old problems, such as hanging a drawer, attaching a tabletop, and pegging a mortise.Plans. If you don't have the time or inclination to design your own furniture, sources to locate the plans for most of the furniture pieces are included.Illustrated Cabinetmaking is the most complete visual guide to furniture construction ever published. It includes hundreds of clearly-labeled drawings and exploded diagrams that explain everything there is to know about joints, subassemblies and furniture design.Featuring each piece in highly-detailed, exploded drawings and applying time-honored dimensions and ergonomic standards, this comprehensive visual sourcebook takes the guesswork out of furniture joinery, assembly, dimension, and style. Woodworkers of any skill level will benefit from more than 1,300 crisp and detailed drawings that explain classic solutions to age-old problems, such as hanging a drawer, attaching a tabletop, and pegging a mortise.Covering hundreds of pieces of furniture, including kitchen cabinets, dining tables, desks, bookcases, and chests, this book will help you unlock the mysteries of legs, moldings, separate braces, and dozens of other subassemblies. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fox Chapel Publishing; First Edition (April 1, 2008)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 90


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #30,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Carpentry #11 in Woodworking Projects (Books) #33 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books)


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    • Very informative
Detailed descriptions, detailed drawings; great for a novice like myself. Worthwhile purchase
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2023 by John C.
    • Excellent Reference
I’m not sure why the book is called Cabinetmaking, but this is an excellent reference book for furniture making. It’s an anatomy book on furniture. It discusses all different types of tables, desks, chests, cabinets and beds. If you’re looking for plans with detailed measurements, this isn’t the book for you. It does provide references for where to get plans. It discusses general measurements such how high and wide a table, desk, or cabinet should be and how to size a dining table top for how many people you want it to seat. Ever read about how you have to take seasonal wood movement into consideration when building a piece of furniture and then wonder how? It’s in here. This book also shows you every conceivable type of joinery and explains where and why it’s used. This isn’t a book you pick up and read front to back. As I stated earlier, it’s a reference book. When you’re designing a project, look up whatever you’re building in this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2020 by Amazon Customer
    • Good overview of all things wood
Not saying this is a bad book, but it's really just an overview of the different kinds of wood furniture, cabinets, drawers, doors ect. Covers just about everything you can build with wood. And some history of the pieces. But there are no how-to's or any plans, and not many dimensions. While it is quite detailed, I would have liked to see more dimensions. Such as, cabinet face frames are usually so wide, type of thing. For me it's more of an idea book, or for more details of the different parts of wood items. If you want to know all the parts or pieces of different wood items, this will help. It would be a nice addition to a woodworking book collection, but not the first book I'd buy. Kind of on the fence if I am happy I bought it. 4 stars for the effort that has gone into it. Less for lack of details. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019 by Ron Killian
    • A must have
A must have for any wood shop. Love the sprial bound.
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024 by Retired Scout
    • Can't put it down...
I feel like most everything I want to say has already been said. But I don't think it'll hurt to recap. It is such a joy just to open a book to a random page and be able to absorb and internalize the presented material. Obviously such a book would have to meet the reader on his experience level by presenting the material in a well organized and informative manner. It would have to open the door for the reader to extend his own creative impulses. And this is just what Mr. Hylton provides for us in his Illustrated Guide to Cabinetmaking. This book immediately sets out to appeal to a much wider audience with different styles and tastes and it succeeds on every level. I often find myself reviewing, from the first pages of the book, the nomenclature of the different methods of joining wood. I honestly believe he covers every means known to the wood worker. (Well, there is that thing I like called confirmat screws that he doesn't mention.) His presentation of topics is easy to understand and comprehend. For example, his discussion of wood expansion and contraction and how to accommodate this in furniture construction is truly a God send. The second and larger part of the book is a compendium of various furniture assembly illustrations encompassing simple end tables to large and complex armoires. The illustrations go as far as to describe the recommended joinery method for the individual pieces. (Note that I use the word 'recommended' because the first part of the book gives the designer a complete choice of other available joinery methods.) The illustrations do not include measurements which is, perhaps, my only angst with this book. Some people may be taken a-back by this book. It is a collection of illustrations/assembly guides for different types of furniture and different styles of the highlighted piece. It doesn't give the reader a step-by-step guide to build from scratch, even though it does provide references to more detailed plans and drawings. (To me, this is enough.) However, by giving you all the necessary joinery background and alternatives, any semi-experienced wood worker can run with it and let his own creative mind take over by adding personal and artistic changes. What book can truly rise to this challenge? It also needs to be made clear that this is not just a book covering the topic of cabinets and the 'cabinetmaking' in the title is misleading. It goes so much further by giving the wood worker a complete and unhindered view of furniture design and assembly. I highly recommend this excellent book to any intermediate to experienced woodworker who wants to expand his furniture horizons. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2010 by Anthony K Wells
    • Excellent Reference
This book is a wealth of information. Everything you need to design and build that piece of furniture.
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023 by Lynn B.
    • Book has great information
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Book came cracked between front cover and back cover. Besides that, good info, good illustrations
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2021 by Nicole Downey Nicole Downey
    • Excellent book for understanding what joints are used where on what pieces.
This is a fantastic book for anyone who wants the following question answered- what joints were used to hold that piece together ? This is what I was looking for, so I am very very happy. Virtually every piece of furniture is shown in exploded form and the joints are revealed and in some cases discussed. If you're a capable woodworker, this is the really critical information you need to make your own variations on any given piece. If you're looking for actual plans with measurements etc, then this is not the book for you although I should add that each piece odes have a reference to plans or an article on that piece. This doesn't appear to be an ad for some plan-provider but rather draws from a wide variety of the usual places .. Fine Woodworking editions or online articles or another book. It's hard to tell which reviews are legit because people get paid to ( I have personally talked with people who were paid to do this) flood the reviews of items with three and ten word reviews giving it five stars. Reading these reviews and realizing they're bought and paid for makes trusting the reviews here hard. I hope potential buyers of this book can see my review is legitimate. I am very happy with this book, it gave me just what I needed with excellent and very clear illustrations. I just went and looked; my book has 367 pages and each piece gets about two pages so there's about 180 or so pieces. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018 by mathboy

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