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Build skills and classic furniture pieces for your home. Author Gregory Paolini is a professional woodworker, with an affinity for the Arts and Crafts style. When he isn't building and teaching classes in his workshop, Paolini writes woodworking books with expert instruction, including this must-have guide - Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects.

If you like Arts & Crafts style, you will want this book in your shop. Appealing to both beginner and seasoned woodworkers, Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects showcases nine iconic furniture projects that vary in difficulty. Timeless and always in style, Arts & Crafts is a perennial favorite and a style that works nicely with almost any home decor.

Learn from an expert. Now, with help from Gregory Paolini, you can construct a beautfiul suite of handcrafted furniture for your home! The projects featured here take you from the basics to advanced techniques - all clearly demonstrated in 25 detailed illustrations and 250 beautiful and instructive photographs.

Enjoy all this and more:

• Informative overview of the Arts & Crafts movement and revival
• Key construction methods for beginners
• Basic stock preparation
• Mortise and tenon joinery
• Half lap joints
• Dovetail sockets
• Prepping a panel
• Through-tusk tenon
• Rabbet joints
• Ship lapping and much, much more

9 projects that build on your skills. As you work your way through the book you learn new skills with each chapter that then develops into more advanced techniques with each new project.

• The Stickley Inspired Frame and Mirror
• Round Table
• Bookcase
• Bed
• Cabinet with Hinges
• Book/Magazine Pedestal
• Stickley Side Chair
• Greene and Greene Wall Table
• Morris Chair
• Finishing Methods

Professional woodworker GREGORY PAOLINI is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking magazine. He is the author of Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple and appears in the companion DVD video as well.