This book is one of the series of Handbooks on industrial subjects being published by the Popular Mechanics Company.
Like Popular Mechanics Magazine, and like the other books in this series, it is "written so you can understand it."
The purpose of Popular Mechanics Handbooks is to supply a growing demand for highclass, up-to-date and accurate text-books, suitable for home study as well as for class use, on all mechanical subjects.
The text and illustrations, in each instance, have been prepared expressly for this series by well known experts, and revised by the editor of Popular Mechanics.
What will this book teach you? It will teach you how to make mission furniture. We all know how popular these furniture are, with popular celebrities spending an insane amount of money to buy them so they can be added to their collection of mission style furniture. If you have the budget that these celebrities have, you can go ahead and buy them. But if you're like most people, you simply don't have the funds to spend for this expensive style of furniture.
This is why you should consider yourself lucky for having this guide. This guide is packed with instructions and images 
that teach you how to make mission furniture. For example, you can make a mission chair. A mission chair suitable for the dining room can be made from any one of the furniture woods to match the other articles of furniture. The materials can be secured from the planing mill dressed and sandpapered ready to cut the tenons and mortises. The material list can be made up from the dimensions given in the detail drawing.
Now that you have an idea as to how simple making them really is, it's time for you to check out this document and learn how to make mission furniture.
Topics Covered
- Homemade mission chair
- How to make a lamp stand
- How to make a porch chair
- How to make a tabouret
- How to make a morris chair
- Homemade mission book rack
- How to make a mission library
- Homemade mission candlestick
- Another style of mission chair
- How to make and finish a magazine
- Homemade lawn swing
- How to make a portable table
- How to make a combination billiard
- Easily-made book shelves
- Blacking case tabouret
- How to make a roll top desk
- How to make a Roman chair
- How to make a settee
- How to make a pyrographer's table
- Mission stains
- Filling oak
- Wax finishing
- The fuming of oak
- How to make blackwax
- The 40 styles of chairs
- How to make a piano bench
- How to make a mission shaving
- Mission wastepaper basket
- Cellarette pedestal
- Dresser
- Mission sideboard
- Hall or window seat
- Mission plant stand
- Bedside medicine stand
- Mission hall chair
