Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I

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Title: Mission Furniture

       How to Make It, Part I

Author: H. H. Windsor

Release Date: December 8, 2007 [EBook #23770]

Language: English

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Mission Furniture

HOW TO MAKE IT

PART I

POPULAR MECHANICS HANDBOOKS

CHICAGO

POPULAR MECHANICS CO.

Copyrighted, 1909,

by H.H. WINDSOR

This book is one of the series of Handbooks on industrial subjects being published by the Popular Mechanics Company.

Like Popular Mechanics Magazine, and like the other books in this series, it is written so you can understand it.

The purpose of Popular Mechanics Handbooks is to supply a growing demand for high-class, up-to-date and accurate text-books, suitable for home study as well as for class use, on all mechanical subjects.

The text and illustrations, in each instance, have been prepared expressly for this series by well known experts, and revised by the editor of Popular Mechanics.

CONTENTS

HOME-MADE MISSION CHAIR, 5

HOW TO MAKE A LAMP STAND AND, 8

HOW TO MAKE A PORCH CHAIR, 15

HOW TO MAKE A TABOURET, 17

HOW TO MAKE A MORRIS CHAIR, 22

HOME-MADE MISSION BOOK RACK, 27

HOW TO MAKE A MISSION LIBRARY, 29

HOME-MADE MISSION CANDLESTICK, 35

ANOTHER STYLE OF MISSION CHAIR, 36

HOW TO MAKE AND FINISH A MAGAZINE, 42

HOME-MADE LAWN SWING, 47

HOW TO MAKE A PORTABLE TABLE, 50

HOW TO MAKE A COMBINATION BILLIARD, 51

EASILY MADE BOOK SHELVES, 56

A BLACKING CASE TABOURET, 57

HOW TO MAKE A ROLL TOP DESK, 62

HOW TO MAKE A ROMAN CHAIR, 67

HOW TO MAKE A SETTEE, 70

HOW TO MAKE A PYROGRAPHER'S TABLE, 74

MISSION STAINS, 76

FILLING OAK, 77

WAX FINISHING, 78

THE FUMING OF OAK, 78

HOW TO MAKE BLACK WAX, 78

THE 40 STYLES OF CHAIRS, 80

HOW TO MAKE A PIANO BENCH, 87

HOW TO MAKE A MISSION SHAVING, 89

A MISSION WASTE-PAPER BASKET, 93

A CELLARETTE PEDESTAL, 96

A DRESSER, 100

A MISSION SIDEBOARD, 103

A HALL OR WINDOW SEAT, 107

A MISSION PLANT STAND, 109

A BEDSIDE MEDICINE STAND, 112

A MISSION HALL CHAIR, 115

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Suitable for Dining Room Use, 5

Details of Chair Construction, 6

The Completed Lamp, 9

Construction of Shade, 11

Details of Construction of Library Lamp Stand, 12

Details of Home-Made Porch Seat, 14

Porch Chair Finished, 16

Details of Tabouret, 18

Tabouret as Completed, 20

Complete Morris Chair Without Cushion, 23

Details of a Morris Chair, 24

Light but Strong, 27

Details of Stand, 28

This Picture is from a Photograph of the Mission Table Described in This Article, 29

Showing Dimensions of Table, 30

Details of Table Construction, 32

Candlestick, 35

Details of Candlestick, 35

Mission Chair Complete, 37

Details of Mission Chair Construction, 39

Completed Stand, 43

Details of the Magazine Stand, 45

The Completed Swing, 47

Details of Seat, 48

Showing Construction of Stand, 49

Table for Outdoor Use, 50

By Swinging the Top Back the Table is Transformed into the Elegant Davenport Seen on the Opposite Page, 52

The Billiard Table as Converted into a Luxurious Davenport—A Child Can Make the Change in a Moment, 53

Details Showing Dimensions of Parts, 54

Details of Shoe Rest, 56

Details of Tabouret Construction, 57

The Desk Complete, 58

Details of Tabouret Construction, 59

The Desk Complete, 61

Rolltop Details, 62

Details, 64

Detail of Pigeonholes, 66

The Roman Chair, 67

Details of Parts of Chair, 69

A Complete Two-Cushion Settee, 71

Details of a Mission Settee, 72

Details of the Cushion, 73

Convenient Pyrographer's Table, 74

Storage for Apparatus, 75

Chairs 1, 81

Chairs 2, 83

Chairs 3, 85

Chairs 4, 86

Piano Bench, 87

Piano Bench Details, 88

Shaving Stand Details, 90

Shaving Stand Complete, 91

Mirror Frame and Standards Details, 92

Waste-Paper Basket to Match Library Table, 93

Detail of Waste-Paper Basket, 94

Plain-Oak Cellarette Pedestal, 97

Detail of Cellarette Pedestal, 99

Dresser in Quarter-Sawed Oak, 101

Detail of the Dresser, 102

Detail of the Mission Sideboard, 104

Mission Sideboard in Quarter-Sawed Oak, 105

Seat Made of Quarter-Sawed Oak, 107

Detail of the Hall or Window Seat, 109

Detail of the Plant Stand, 110

Complete Plant Stand, 111

Medicine Stand in Quarter-Sawed Oak, 113

Detail of the Medicine Stand, 114

Detail of the Hall Chair, 116

Complete Hall Chair in Plain Oak, 117

HOME-MADE MISSION CHAIR

Suitable for Dining Room Use

Details of Chair Construction

A mission chair suitable for the dining room can be made from any one of the furniture woods to match the other articles of furniture. The materials can be secured from the planing mill dressed and sandpapered ready to cut the tenons and mortises. The material list can be made up from the dimensions given in the detail drawing. The front legs or posts, as well as the back ones, are made from 1-3/4-in. square stock, the back ones having a slope of 2 in. from the seat to the top. All the slats are made from 7/8-in. material and of such widths as are shown in the detail. The three upright slats in the back are 3/4-in. material. The detail drawing shows the side and back, the front being the same as the back from the seat down. All joints are mortised in the posts, as shown. The joints, however, can be made with dowels if desired. If making dowel joints they must be clamped very tight when glued and put together. The seat can be made from one piece of 7/8-in. material, fitted with notches around the posts. This is then upholstered with leather without using springs. Leather must be selected as to color to suit the kind of wood used in making the chair. The seat can also be made with an open center for a cane bottom by making a square of four pieces of 7/8-in. material about 4 in. wide. These pieces are fitted neatly to the proper size and dowelled firmly together. After the cane is put in the opening the cane is covered over and upholstered with leather in the same manner as with a solid bottom.

HOW TO MAKE A LAMP STAND AND SHADE

A library light stand of pleasing design and easy construction is made as follows: Square up a piece of white oak so that it shall have a width and thickness of 1-3/4 in. with a length of 13 in. Square up two pieces of