Search results

I am planning to sell my furniture book collection. It probably makes more sense to advertise it here first before taking it to a used bookstore. Of my period furniture books, I am offering the following. Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour, by Massey The New Fine Points of...

For many of us, there is a good possibility that within one or two generations our furniture will be inherited by someone who does not want or appreciate it. The furniture will also appear to them to be no different from a commercial reproduction. In that case, I would like my better pieces to...

I recently build a table that is similar to the famous Goddard tea table with the wavy rails, using genuine mahogany. Everything went fine until I started to apply the dye stain in an oil base, using Jeff Jewitt's suggestion in Fine Woodworking. Then there was a significant variation in the...

The famous card table by John and Thomas Seymour, seen for example on page 340 of Robert Mussey’s book, contains “therm” feet that are carved from the solid leg. I am not certain how to carve those therms in a way that is as symmetrical and perfect as theirs. I assume that I have to build some...