The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making: A Practical Handbook To The
Construction Of Cabinet Furniture; The Use Of Tools, Formation Of
Joints, Hints On Designing And Setting Out Work, Veneering, Etc. By
David Denning, 1891. David Denning wrote four influential books on:
cabinet-making; fretwork; carving and finishing. His works were and
are frequently quoted and referenced in books by woodworkers, for
woodworkers. In print through numerous editions from the late 19th
Century through the early 20th Century, The Art And Craft Of
Cabinet-Making provides a thorough review of the tools and
techniques of hand crafted cabinet-making as practiced during the
1800's, as evidenced by this period review: The Popular Science
Monthly 1892: May - October; Vol. 41, p. 274 Mr. David Denning's
hand-book on The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making ... will be
welcomed by amateurs and young craftsmen, and even experienced
workman may derive pleasure and profit from it. It relates to the
construction of cabinet furniture, the use of tools, the formation
of joints, etc., explaining the ordinary reliable methods of the
workshop, but not exploiting novelties in style or process. It
marks the distinction between cabinet-making and joinery, and
between cabinet-making and decoration; gives a review of the
development of furniture, in which the tricks and deceits of a
class of dealers in pretended antiques are exposed; and then
furnishes practical information, with more than two hundred
illustrations, concerning the various matters pertaining to
cabinet-making - furniture woods, glue, nails, tools, wooden
appliances made by the user, grinding and sharpening tools, joints,
structural details, construction of parts, drawing, veneering,
etc., and the construction of various articles.
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