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From tree to table: how to make your own rustic log furniture. / Alan Garbers.

Summary:

"Discover how to build rustic furniture from cut timber in this comprehensive guide for woodworkers. Award-winning outdoor writer Alan Garbers shows how to use raw logs to make cabin-style beds, tables, benches, lamps, coat racks, kiva ladders, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781565239821
ISBN: 1565239822
Physical Description: 152 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Mount Joy, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Getting ideas and finding Inspiration -- Safety first -- Styles of furniture -- Logs -- Peeling bark the easy way -- Why wood shrinks, warps and cracks -- Found wood -- Bark on or bark off? -- Working with logs -- Insects: friend or foe? -- Drying wood -- Finding nature's gifts -- Steam bending -- Fastening/joining wood -- Finishing your artwork -- Portable band-saw mills -- Glue and gluing -- Sanding -- Work stations -- The basics of making furniture -- Building a slab bench -- Making a rustic framed mirror -- Rustic coat rack -- Making tables -- Rustic and log lamps -- Building a quilt or rug -- Ladder -- Building beds -- Tips, tricks, and techniques.