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Title: Good Design Guide, Bad Construction Manual
Review: As a guide to making funiture for the home craftsman, this book should get either zero or one star. It includes a couple of dozen projects which consist of line drawings, a brief description, a parts list, and minimalist plans - just an elevation or two, poorly done.HOWEVER, these are, by definition, authentic Stickley designs. If you are an intermediate or expert woodworker and a good designer, you can take these plans and drawings and then make your own detailed production drawings.In summary, what you get in this book is a couple of dozen drawings of furniture and some commentary, both of which are of historical value and of interest to the woodworker. Incidentally, I have seen at least two of the designs in some modern mission furniture construction books.
