On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 03:35:09 GMT, "Keith Carlson"
brought forth from the murky depths:

I'm sure there's others on the wreck well-versed in mission-style furniture,
I just happen to remember Andy making many related posts.

I'm an afficionado but haven't yet built any. Next year, though!


The timeliness of this query is this: I'm just now lining up boards for a
coffee table top, and was planning on making the 28 inch wide top from 8
boards appx 3.5 in each. If I used narrower boards, it would make it easier
to choose nice-looking grain from the red oak I have available, although

Traditional is white oak, and they typically used wider boards back
then because they were available. I'll guess that the width is from
8/4 thickness lumber which was available to them, cut for the qsawn
grain.


more work in glue-up. I would like to keep it true to the traditional style
to the extent that I'm capable (won't be any ammonia fuming going on in my
house in the near future).

Let's hope not. That belongs in the driveway or garage.


But, aside from that, I'm just curious how good a reproduction they have at
that store.

I haven't seen anything that narrow in any picture from the
twenty or so books I've read on A&C furniture.

The 1909-1912 copy of Popular Mechanics' "Mission Furnitu
How To Make It" shows a parts list for the library table top
as "1 top, 1-1/8 by 30 by 42 in., S4S". For the tabouret top,
"from the planing mill, secure one piece 7/8 in. thick and 17
in. square", so really wide qsawn oak was readily available
back then. (Gawd, if only that were still true!)


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