Planning and Designing in Woodworking

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Planning and Designing in Woodworking

• Chapter I

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Design Factors

• Functional
• Material
• Methods
• Appearance

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Furniture Styles

• Style refers to a distinctive manner of designing
  which is typical of a specific person, place,
  time, or group
• Traditional
• Early 20th Century Influences
• Contemporary

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Traditional furniture styles

• Represent different periods of history in France,
  England, and the United States
• Inspired by the rulers who commissioned for
  designs which the found appealing.
• Ex. Napoleon inspired the French Empire Style

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Early 20th Century

• An effort to return to a more honest and simple
  design in reaction to the cluttered Victorian
  styles of the late 1800s
• form follows function
• Ex. Prairie homes were based on the idea that a
  structure, its surroundings, and its furnishings
  should be parts of a whole

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Contemporary Furniture

• Very latest designs since about 1950
• Beautiful grained hardwoods, especially walnut,
  are often used
• Plastics and lighter weight metals are sometimes
  used

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Sketching

• First, with the pencil held several inches from
  the point, make light block-in lines
• Second, Grip the pencil near the pint and press
  down firmly. Follow along the block-in lines with
  a series of strokes formed by a wrist movement
• Finish with details

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Presentation Drawings

• Isometric
• The easiest and most commonly used
• First block in cubes and rectangles that hold the
  shapes
• Then locate finished outlines from the edges and
  surfaces of the block-in form

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Presentation Drawings

• Oblique
• Make a profile or front view
• Then secure the third dimension by drawing back
  at a angle
• Make the lines drawn at an angle only about
  one-half their actual length to produce a more
  realistic appearance

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Presentation Drawings

• Multiview Projection
• Orthographic views
• Can be used for presentation drawings
• Valuable for checking the proportion, balance,
  and other visual aspects of the design

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Working Drawings

• Provides complete shape and size description of
  the product and its various parts
• Includes assembled views of the product, complete
  with all size and location dimensions
• Large pieces with an irregular contour are
  carefully drawn to scale on a grid of squares is
  superimposed on the contour lines so that
  accurate patterns can be developed
• Type and size of fasteners, proportion wood
  joints for the greatest strength, and determine
  the exact size of various parts

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Plan of Procedure

• A carefully prepared list of the steps you
  propose to follow in the construction of your
  project
• Steps should be listed in outline form

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Bill of Materials

• Includes number of pieces, exact size, kind of
  wood, name of the part
• Dimensions are listed in this order
  thickness x width x length
• A stock cutting list can be developed from the
  bill of materials