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Furniture Making
Spring 2005
Topics
- Intro/Slides
- Wood/Plywood/Products/Behavior of wood
- MFA Visit
- Design/Milling/SquareBoard
- Mitch Ryerson Presentation
- Work Day
- Dovetail/Handtools
- Pin-Up Rough Sketch
- Power Tools
- Lumber Arrives/Distribute
- Jig Making
- Vacuum Bag Bending of Plywood, using the Router 3 Ways
- Work Day (cont.)
- End of Semester: Display of Finished Pieces
Readings
- Edited by the editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine. Fine Woodworking Techniques Book 1 . Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1981. ISBN: 0918804027.
- Frid, Tage. Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Book 3: Furnituremaking . Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1989. ISBN: 091880440X.
- Greene, Jeffrey P. American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, and Structure . Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1996. ISBN: 1561581046.
- Hoadley, R. Bruce. Understanding Wood: A Craftsman’s Guide to Wood Technology . Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1985. ISBN: 0918804051.
- Fairbanks, Jonathan L. American furniture, 1620 to the present . New York, NY: Richard Marek, 1981. ISBN: 0399900969.
- Kates, G. Chinese Household Furniture . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1962. ISBN: 048620958X.
- Edited by the editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine_. Fine Woodworking Design Book Three_. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1983. ISBN: 0918804183.
- Cooke, Edward S., Jr., Gerald W. R. Ward, and Kelly H. L’Ecuyer. The Maker’s Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940-1990 . Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts Publications, 2004. ISBN: 0878466622.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.