CDHM The Miniature Way
September 2010, Issue 8
Book Review
Page 32
The next chapter discusses wood tools and joints, with plenty of illustrations on their use, from a planning and squaring boards to small squaring block, a mitre box and the types of joints: simple butt, long edge,
mortice and tenon, the different dovetails and essentially more joints than the average crafter knew existed.
The next two chapters deal with sanding and finishing, the proper grades of paper and the different tools for acquiring a perfect surface.
Next comes several projects. He covers crafting a drawer and door as well as "making a carcass" to hold them and proceeds to show how, with just these basic skills, the sky is the limit for furniture making. He even shows how to insert banded bits of veneer. Detailed schematic drawings are almost like reading perfect blueprints on the different projects, such as the Victorian Davenport Desk. He even offers a selection of different pediments and leg designs to make your pieces unique.
In the Appendices in the back there are different lists which may no longer be viable, but it would be fun to check them out anyways: museums featuring miniatures in both the UK and America, shops selling miniatures in both countries as well as a bibliography for further reading on miniature furniture. No miniature furniture crafter should be without this book.
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