Название: Awesome Woodworking Projects for Every Skill Level: With instructions and diagrams Автор: Joaquín Peralta
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2020
Страниц: 817
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 82.5 MB
From novice to advanced, these woodworking projects will challenge and delight.
Woodworking is an amazing hobby—as well as vocation, that can last a lifetime. These woodworking projects are accessible to woodworkers of all skill levels. Most projects include plans and a materials and tools list, so you have everything you need to get started.
The Welsh dresser is something of an enigma. There seems to be little restriction as to size and form of this traditional piece. I've seen huge examples. One, I recall, in the Childswickham Arms, one of the oldest pubs in England, is some eight feet wide and seven feet tall, with shelves stacked with antique pewter plates, pots and jugs. Another, imported into the United States from England, for sale in an antique dealer's store in Atlanta was even bigger, at least ten feel wide. Then again, I've seen small versions not more than 30" wide and 66" fall. The design, and there are two primary versions, takes its name from Wales, a small part of the United Kingdom, where it's supposed to have originated. The earliest versions, made prior to and including the early eighteenth century, were rather crude affairs made primarily by village carpenters. By the turn of the nineteenth century, however, the piece had evolved to the point where it could be regarded as fine furniture, suitable to grace even the finest of drawing rooms. Even so, the basic design remained true to the original traditional form and still does today.
As previously mentioned, there are two basic forms of Welsh dresser: One has a cupboard-bottom and an open-shelf upper dresser; the other, the one we shall be dealing with, is called a "pot-board" Welsh dresser. The original was made in the late 1700s. It has the usual open-shelf upper dresser, but the lower section has two deep drawers side by side and is supported by turned legs connected by a low shelf. This I believe to be the more traditional of the two styles. And, most important, at least to me, it's certainly the more aesthetically appealing of the two designs. It's a challenging piece to build, will take many hours and will involve the use of every tool in the shop. When it's finished you'll have a family heirloom you can be justly proud of; I certainly am of mine.
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