Furniture - Crafts

After you have become adept at woodworking, you will probably want to drop the plans that you have studied in the books and begin to design your own furniture. For this you will need a drawing board, a T-square, and a compass. With these materials, you will be able to make a set of working drawings by following the same methods that are used in the books.

Woodworking can take as much or as little time as you care to give it. As your skill improves, you will want to replace some of your "boughten" furniture with products of your own skill. Your pieces will eventually become more elaborate than your first simple ones, and you will take a deep pride in your professional-looking corner cabinets, chests of drawers, cocktail tables, and bar stools with upholstered seats.

As your projects become more ambitious, you will find good use for a wood-turning lathe. With this you can produce round legs for your table or whip up a salad bowl almost as fast you can whip up a salad. By this time, you will have added materially to the basic tools with which you started, and as you become more proficient, you will want more and more tools.

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