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Build your own, or restore a cherished antique — these illustrated how-to books can make a carpenter of anyone. In addition to instructions for projects in the modern Craftsman and Mission styles, they include classic patterns in Hepplewhite, Phyfe, Queen Anne, and other traditions.
Recommendations... Mission Furniture You Can Build
by John D. Wagner
Wagner provides plans for 10 authentic replicas of Mission furniture. He makes it simple to create endlessly satisfying period pieces such as a Morris chair, bookcase, couch, and coffee table.
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Products in Furniture | | | | | | |  | Illustrated Mission Furniture Catalog, 1912-13
by Come-Packt Furniture Co.
Reprint of actual home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, illustrating and describing 400 items, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home.
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| | |  | Making Authentic Craftsman Furniture: Instructions and Plans for 62 Projects
by Gustav Stickley
Make authentic reproductions of handsome, functional, durable furniture: tables, chairs, wall cabinets, desks, a hall tree, and more. Construction plans with drawings, schematics, dimensions, and lumber specs reprinted from 1900s The Craftsman magazine.
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| | | | |  | A Manual of Veneering
by Paul Villiard
Comprehensive manual covers clamping, repairing, and more, including how to inexpensively build your own veneer press and edger. 65 illustrations.
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| | Mission Furniture You Can Build
by John D. Wagner
Wagner provides plans for 10 authentic replicas of Mission furniture. He makes it simple to create endlessly satisfying period pieces such as a Morris chair, bookcase, couch, and coffee table.
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|  | Mission Furniture: How to Make It
by Popular Mechanics
Nearly 100 of the most desirable pieces of Mission furniture that you could ever want to make: chairs, desks, sideboards, buffets, and many smaller pieces. 213 illustrations, including measured drawings.
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|  | Principles & Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning
by John Jacob Holtzapffel
First paperback edition of Great Victorian classic for special lathe, with coverage of frames and chucks, unbelievably complex projects, all with unmatched thoroughness and clarity. 600 illustrations.
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|  | Restoring Antique Furniture: A Complete Guide
by Richard A. Lyons
Profusely illustrated woodworking guide, brimming with expert tips and advice, covers proper care and use of tools, replacing lost hardware, strengthening fractured joints, and much more. Illustrations of restored furniture.
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