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Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls

Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls
By Dennis Simmons

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Providing the plans and instructions for an heirloom-quality dollhouse and sturdy doll furniture, this guide is written with the home woodworker in mind. All the projects are made with tools commonly found in home workshops, and every set of instructions follows a detailed step-by-step process. Simpler projects are suitable for beginners, and several challenging projects are intended for advanced woodworkers. Modular plans allow adjustments to the size of the house, and there are several options for adding charming details such as gingerbread trim. Furniture projects include an armoire, a chest of drawers, a canopy bed, a classic trunk, a grandfather clock, a rocking chair, a tea table, and a school desk.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #64698 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

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"With easy to follow instructions, Dennis Simmons, a woodworker with 30 years experience, shows you how to build a range of mini-scaled furniture, including chairs, tables, beds, dressers, chests and trunks."  —Canadian Woodworking Magazine E-Newsletter



"Wooden Puzzles will provide hours of fun for anyone with a scrollsaw and represents good value for those interested in wooden puzzles generally."  —Australian Woodworker Magazine

About the Author

Dennis Simmons is a professional woodworker and a contributor to Scroll Saw Workshop magazine. He lives Rushville, Indiana.

Customer Reviews

Almost, not quite2
I am an experienced woodworker with a well-equipped shop who makes period furniture without problems. I bought this because I wanted plans at the American Girl scale to build with my daughter who is a beginner woodworker. So far we've built the picnic table and the instructions were overly sketchy and the plans were wrong. After we realized this I had to redraw everything to fix it and restart. Also, structurally it isn't a very practical design and a couple of extra slats would make it much sturdier and easier to construct. At least for this plan you are probably better off just following an actual picnic table plan and scaling it.

Good designs, but lacking detail3
This book had several good furniture designs for beds, chests, bookcases, etc. However the assembly instructions were very hard to follow. It could really use an assembly drawing to illustrate how each piece of furniture goes together. You should also be aware that you will need a pretty good assortment of tools to cut and assemble the parts. It would be nice if there were a list of recommended tools. This was not a problem for me, but it could be if you are not a woodworker. Also, check the measurements as I found several incorrect measurements in the book.

would only change one thing4
the book has lots o f nice plans, most have patterns that are to scale, a couple of the bigger patterns have to be enlarged which cannot be easily done at home i took it to staples and it cost me about $8.00,it would br nice if for these plans it had a fold out full size pattern for these pieces.

I also found out tha Lowes caries a lot of the smaller size boards in several species which saves a lot of time cutting 3/4" boards down.

All and all this book is well worth the money,I am in the process of building my daughter the bunk bed for her dolls for Christmas.