Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home
With its simple, organic charm and timeless natural beauty, Mission-style furniture has enjoyed continued popularity for over a century. For craftsman and non-craftsman alike, perhaps the most cherished examples of Mission-style furniture are lamps. Mission Style Lamps and Shades takes readers through the entire process of designing, planning, and constructing radiant Mission-style lamps and shades.  

For countless craftspeople, John Duncan Adam’s Mission Style Lamps and Shades has been the go-to guide for those wanting to build their own lamps and shades. The book contains a wide array of do-it-yourself projects, from reading lamps to chandeliers, desk lights to drop lights, complete with easy-to-follow instructions, measurements, and more than 75 diagrams, drawings, and illustrations. With straightforward language, Adams takes the reader through techniques like trimming a block of wood, using a soldering iron, and designing opulent shades with art glass. With Adams’s expert guidance, the beginning craftsman will have no trouble creating a one-of-a-kind, fully functional, decorative lamps and shade. 
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Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home
With its simple, organic charm and timeless natural beauty, Mission-style furniture has enjoyed continued popularity for over a century. For craftsman and non-craftsman alike, perhaps the most cherished examples of Mission-style furniture are lamps. Mission Style Lamps and Shades takes readers through the entire process of designing, planning, and constructing radiant Mission-style lamps and shades.  

For countless craftspeople, John Duncan Adam’s Mission Style Lamps and Shades has been the go-to guide for those wanting to build their own lamps and shades. The book contains a wide array of do-it-yourself projects, from reading lamps to chandeliers, desk lights to drop lights, complete with easy-to-follow instructions, measurements, and more than 75 diagrams, drawings, and illustrations. With straightforward language, Adams takes the reader through techniques like trimming a block of wood, using a soldering iron, and designing opulent shades with art glass. With Adams’s expert guidance, the beginning craftsman will have no trouble creating a one-of-a-kind, fully functional, decorative lamps and shade. 
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Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home

Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home

by John Duncan Adams
Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home

Mission Style Lamps and Shades: Eighteen Projects You Can Make at Home

by John Duncan Adams

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With its simple, organic charm and timeless natural beauty, Mission-style furniture has enjoyed continued popularity for over a century. For craftsman and non-craftsman alike, perhaps the most cherished examples of Mission-style furniture are lamps. Mission Style Lamps and Shades takes readers through the entire process of designing, planning, and constructing radiant Mission-style lamps and shades.  

For countless craftspeople, John Duncan Adam’s Mission Style Lamps and Shades has been the go-to guide for those wanting to build their own lamps and shades. The book contains a wide array of do-it-yourself projects, from reading lamps to chandeliers, desk lights to drop lights, complete with easy-to-follow instructions, measurements, and more than 75 diagrams, drawings, and illustrations. With straightforward language, Adams takes the reader through techniques like trimming a block of wood, using a soldering iron, and designing opulent shades with art glass. With Adams’s expert guidance, the beginning craftsman will have no trouble creating a one-of-a-kind, fully functional, decorative lamps and shade. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620874660
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 03/06/2013
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Duncan Adams was a master carpenter and skilled craftsmen who wrote a number of books on the subject including Carpentry for Beginners, Metal Work and
Etching, and Arts- Crafts Lamps-How to Make Them.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1 Built-Up Shades

Chapter I Droplights 7

Chapter II Reading Lamp No. 1 14

Chapter III Reading Lamp No. 2 20

Chapter IV Square Dining-Room Dome 28

Chapter V Mission Chandelier 32

Part 2 Soldered Shades

Chapter I Desk Light 39

Chapter II Droplight No. 3 46

Chapter III Chandelier 49

Chapter IV Hexagonal Library Lamp 53

Chapter V Hexagonal Dome 60

Part 3 Etched Shades

Chapter I Lamp No. 1 67

Chapter II Lamp No. 2 73

Chapter III Lamp No. 3 79

Chapter IV Lamp No. 4 86

Part 4 Sawn Shades

Chapter I Conventional Patterns 91

Chapter II The Butterfly Design 98

Chapter III The Pyramid Design 103

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