SIDEBOARDS
436 Cocktail cabinet in English walnut with fluted drawer front. Designed by Ernest Joyce MSIA. Author's workshops matching veneers. Figure 437:6 is the detail of the taper legs with curve …
Cocktail cabinets
Figure 436 illustrates a cocktail cabinet in English walnut, composed of carcass and separate stand with built-in shelf. Figure 437:1 shows the elevation and 437:2 the side sectional elevation. The …
Construction of corner cabinets, etc
Tall cabinets can have separate top and bottom carcasses, with the sides made up of top and bottom framing rails and grooved-in plywood panel grooved into the front pilaster and …
Chests, cabinets and sideboards
CHESTS Chests, man's oldest furniture, continue to have a place in modern households, being used chiefly for the storage of blankets and linen, but not exclusively so, as the cedar …
Office desks
gives details of the purpose-made brass handles with turned stems and brazed-on plates out of 31/6 in (5 mm) brass, with the facets filed away and machine buffed. Two steel …
Writing desks
The writing desk in English walnut (405) was designed on a series of golden sections for a special client. The canted pedestals are attached by screwing through the bearer rails …
Coffee and occasional tables
The coffee or occasional table as an item of furniture has no parallel in past centuries in the West, although low tables, used mainly for dining purposes, have been in …
Envelope-top card-tables
In this variation of the double-top table the upper top, which must be square, is divided into four triangular sections (383:1) hinged to the under top with centre card-table hinges. …
Concertina-action double-top tables
Figure 381 shows the side elevation with double top and end-fixing card-table hinges. In 381:2 the back legs (hinged side of top) are not т~ ___________ 1 connected to the …
Gate-leg tables
These superseded the draw-leaf type in the sixteenth century, but their popularity has greatly declined in recent years. They are a useful form for small rooms, and a wide range …
Furniture designs and constructional details 41 Tables and desks (domestic and office)
The general term 'furniture' has wide meanings. but from the standpoint of the cabinet-maker its range will be limited to four main classes as follows: Supporting units Tables, trolleys/carts, desks, …
INTERSECTION OF MOULDINGS Raking moulds
Where two mouldings of unequal width intersect on one plane then the junction is a bevelled mitre as distinct from a true mitre of 45° (see Mitre, scribed and scarf …
PROPORTIONAL REDUCTION AND ENLARGEMENT
The principles of reduction and enlargement are based on the properties of a triangle in which there is a progressive diminution from base-line to apex (the proportionate division of A …
Entasis
Tapered shafts or columns with straight sides give the optical illusion of curving inwards, therefore classical architecture gave a slight outward swelling (entasis) to counteract the tendency, and to convey …
SURFACES OF DOUBLE CURVATURE
Surfaces of double curvature (domes, etc.) cannot be developed with complete accuracy, nevertheless the method illustrated in 347 is sufficiently accurate for most practical purposes. Assuming that a hemisphere has …
CONIC SECTIONS
A cone is a pyramid with a circular base (345:1), and a vertical cut through the axis will yield a section which is a triangle, parallel to the axis a …
CIRCLES
The various terms used in connection with circles are illustrated in 343. Arc, any part of a circumference; chord, any straight line shorter than the diameter terminated by the circumference …
PARALLELOGRAMS
Parallelograms are quadrilaterals with opposite sides equal and parallel to each other, therefore the opposite angles are equal, the diagonals bisect the figures into similar triangles and also bisect each …
PROPORTIONAL DIVISION
Lines can be divided proportional to each other in the manner described above and 340:3 gives the details where AC is to be divided in the same proportion as AB. …
Workshop geometry
Some knowledge of elementary geometric drawing is necessary for the preparation of workshop drawings or 'full sizings', which are, in effect, accurately drawn full-size outlines of the object to be …
WORKING DRAWINGS AND SETTING OUT
The book rack set out in isometric projection (336) is turned into an orthographic drawing. A system is used that employs the undermentioned basic principles. 1 Most furniture is symmetrical …
Perspective drawing
Perspective drawings are used to illustrate the appearance of the object so that it is completely understandable to a third person. Actual measurements are not taken from such drawings, as …
AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
This is a variation of isometric projection, sometimes known as 'bird's-eye' perspective, as it gives more of a downward view (333:4). The true plan is first drawn to scale at …
ISOMETRIC PROJECTION
Isometric is a simple and mechanical way of producing a pictorial representation. Orthographic projections of one kind or another make the most efficient type of drawing from which to work, …
OBLIQUE PROJECTION
The elevation of the object is drawn to scale and parallel to the observer, as in orthographic projection, but receding lines, i. e. the sides of the plinth not visible …
Projections commonly used
ORTHOGRAPHIC (ORTHOGONAL) PROJECTION The standard method of representing a threedimensional object in two-dimensional form, i. e. as a scale drawing on one plane, is by ortho - graphic projection in …
DIMENSIONING
Apart from the setting out on the paper, putting on the dimensions is the most difficult aspect of technical drawing. Figure 330A illustrates some of the drawing conventions recommended. If …
Draughtsmanship and workshop geometry
The drawing office Technical drawings are the link between the designer and the producer (even if they are the same person). 1 They force the designer to make a clear …
MEASURED WORK
Where new work has to be fitted to existing work or built to specific dimensions, as, for instance, built-in cupboards or panelling, onsite measurements must be taken. Assuming that an …
CUTTING LISTS
Cutting lists are prepared from the full-size drawings and rods and precisely enumerate all the individual pieces of wood required. They can be dead nett or finished dimension, allowing only …
Setting out and cutting lists 36 Setting out and cutting lists
SETTING OUT Full-size drawings or rods are necessary for setting out the work, showing the exact dimensions and constructional methods to be employed. Normally, design-drawings do not show the constructional …
Radio-frequency (RF) heating
In this process a suitable generator will take current from the mains and transform it into very high frequencies which, when transmitted to the work via suitable platens or electrodes, …
HEAT ACCELERATION OF GLUE SETS
While all types of glue set faster in warm atmospheres, thermoplastic glues, i. e. heat - melting glues such as hide glue, will soften or liquefy under pronounced heat; but …
PRESSING METHODS
Thin sheets or veneers can be pressed in simple male and female formers/forms (321:3), or over 322 Dining chairs by Robert Williams of Pearl Dot. The graceful backs to this …
Laminated insets
Where the required wood member is for the most part straight with a curved portion at the end, the bend can be achieved by saw kerfing the timber and inserting …
