Building Simple Furniture Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A – 06 – Cathy Baker

Make a diagonal cut across the 1½″ × 3 ½″ × 6″ piece of stock so that it forms two triangles 3 ½″ × 6″ × 7″. See fig.1. 3. Put the 6″ face of each triangle against the front outside corner of each front leg. Drill starter holes and screw the triangle in place. fig. 1. 4. Cut the angles on the fig.

2 5. Drill starter holes and screw the slanted legs to the front legs. fig. 2. 6. Plane the corner of the back brace as shown in fig. 3. 7. Drill starter holes and screw the front and back braces in place. Refer to fig. 2. 8. Cut the angles on the arms. See fig. 4. 9. Drill starter holes and screw the arm brace to the back of the arms. fig. 4. 10. Cut the angles on the back pieces.

See fig. 5. 11. Have someone hold the arm brace while you tack the arms to the front legs with the 1½″ brads. fig. 6. 12. Tack the two outside back pieces in place. fig. 6. fig. 3 fig. 4 slanted legs. See fig. 2.

13. Drill starter holes and screw the arm to the triangles attached to the front legs. fig. 6. 14. Drill starter holes and fasten the two outside back pieces securely with the screws. Fasten the rest of the back pieces. Be sure that they are spaced evenly. fig. 6. fig. 5 15. Cut out the corner notches on the ¾″ × 5½″ × 22″ front seat piece. See fig. 7. fig. 6 16. Drill starter holes and screw the piece in place.

Screw the back seat piece in place and then the middle two. Refer to the finished view at the beginning of this project. 17. Sand. This chair may be stained, varnished or painted. fig. 7 1kitap1.com/en Children will love this lamp in their bedrooms, showing how the operation of the pump handle produces a flood of light.

Bill of Materials Pieces Use base pump top of pump pump handle sides of trough large end of trough small end of trough dowel (spout) Dimensions: thickness width length ¾″ 4¾″ 9¼″ 3½″ 3½″ 8¼″ (4×4) ¾″ 4″ 4″ ⅜″ 1⅛″ 7″ ¼″ 1½″ 4″ ¼″ 1½″ 1½″ ¼″ 1¼″ 1½″ ½″ round × 2″ long brass-shell pull chain socket, threaded for 1/8″ pipe continuous-threaded pipe 1/8″ × 1″ long 2″ finish nails lamp shade wall plug white glue lamp cord plastic wood Procedure 1.

Cut and plane all stock to the sizes given in the bill of materials. 2.

Look over the wood furniture projects in this bulletin. See something you need? A small table for the hallway, perhaps, or the Adirondack chair or picnic set for enjoyable outdoor living. Here’s a surprise for you. You don’t need a basement full of power tools to build them. Just the simple hand tools listed below. And you don’t have to be a master carpenter, either. Just follow the step- by-step instructions, and the illustrations. It’s simple. You’ll enjoy the furniture you build, and get even deeper satisfaction from having built it yourself.

Tools Hammer Crosscut saw, back saw Coping saw Pencil Measuring tape Try-square Smooth or block plane Router Plane Chisel Screw Driver Two C-clamps Brace or hand drill Drill bits, numbered 1/8, 9/64, 7/32, 3/8, ¼, 23/64, 5/16, ½, 5/8 and 1 inch. (Materials for these projects may be purchased at hardware stores, lumberyards and building supply stores.) Whenever there is a common stock name of the measure of an article it will be given in parentheses after the listing of the actual measurement of that article.

For example, a piece of wood with the thickness of one and one-half inches commonly called a two-by-four. If you ask for an article by its common stock name, you will save time and avoid confusion. 1kitap1.com/en WALL SHELF Need a place for those little, breakable items you’ve collected, or those spice jars?

Here it is, and it’s a snap to build. Bill of Materials Pieces Use 2 sides 1 top 1 upper shelf 1 middle shelf 1 lower shelf 4-penny finish nails cardboard for patterns Dimensions: thickness width length 5/8″ 7″ 27½″ ½ ″ 7″ 10″ ½″ 5″ 10″ ½″ 6″ 10″ ½″ 7″ 10″ fig. 1 Procedure 1. Cut, plane and square the boards to the sizes given in the bill of materials. 2. Make a full-sized cardboard pattern of the shelf side.

Lay it out on the boards as shown in fig. 1. 3. Saw the sides to shape with a coping saw. Start with the upper curve, then saw the two middle curves and finish with the lower end. fig. 2 fig. 3 4. Sand all rough surfaces. 5. On both surfaces of the sides draw two light lines where each shelf is to be fastened.

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