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Final Details on ‘Campaign Furniture’

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After much wrangling of numbers, pixels and typos, we have almost all the details set for our next book, “Campaign Furniture.”

The book will go to press on Monday and be available in early March. We will take orders on the day the book arrives in our warehouse and begin shipping it immediately. All orders placed during the first 30 days of ordering will receive free domestic shipping.

The book will be $33. We tried to beat it lower, but we were going to have to sacrifice the paper weight or a critical manufacturing detail to reduce the price (and eat).

The book will be 344 pages and printed in a 6” x 9” format. The paper will be an #80 matte coated paper, which is heavy, bright white and takes exceptional detail. It is the same paper we used in “By Hand & Eye.”

The book will be casebound, Smythe sewn and have contrasting headbands. The endsheets (the paper between the cover and the interior) will be a nice natural color.

The entire interior will be printed in color. Shots of finished furniture will be in full color. Step photos will be a duotone, as shown above.

Here is a final table of contents.

Preface…vii

1. Campaign Style 1
2. Campaign Woods 38
3. Campaign Hardware 52
4. Campaign Chests 82
5. Campaign Secretaries 122
6. Folding Camp Stool 138
7. Roorkee Chairs 154
8. Strong Trunk 190
9. Field Desk 214
10. Collapsible Bookshelves 234
11. Traveling Bookcase 248

Afterword… 265

Appendicies
A. Roubo on Campaign Furniture… 268
B. India’s Joiners, by George Cecil… 279
C. Army & Navy Stores… 284
Acknowledgements…318
Further Reading…319
Index…323

In the coming days we will offer this book to our retailers, both domestic and international. We’ll let you know which retailers will be carrying the book (it is their choice, of course).

The book will be available as a pdf on the same day the book is released in March. We plan to have a special price for those customers who wish to buy both a hardcopy and pdf.

I cannot wait until Monday. After this book heads to the printing plant, I get to dive into Peter Galbert’s book on chairs and Andrew Lunn’s “The Art of the Saw.”

— Christopher Schwarz

21 thoughts on “Final Details on ‘Campaign Furniture’”

  1. When you talk about all of the printing details, I feel a little bit like my wife when I talk about my woodworking projects. “Yup…. Uh huh…. Interesting…” Supportive and enthused, but with zero actual understanding of the craft. 🙂 Keep it up!

  2. Chris, are you giving up EPUB formatted books? PDFs are a major pain to read. I was just reading the Anarchists Toolchest again and the format makes it so easy.

    Any chance some of your recent books will come out on EPUB?

    Michael

    1. Michael,

      We have all but abandoned epub and mobi formats for our books. Because of their extensive graphics, they aren’t suited for text readers. We continue to look for a better format than pdf, but we haven’t found it yet.

  3. Absolutely love that photo and would love to make it my new wallpaper. Any chance of a higher resolution version?

    And congrats on completion of the book!

  5. You understand this is going to require me to buy a van capable of towing (done) and a trip to all the great Ohio / Indiana lumberyard to get the right wood to make these. I’m really glad this is done as I have loved this furniture since I was living in England but have never found a piece I could afford in good enough shape to use.

    Wife is going to take away the cards again……sigh

    1. “…Wife is going to take away the cards again……sigh”
      I had a friend whose wife actually took his cards out of his wallet, stuck them in individual glasses full of water and then stuck them all in the freezer. (Little background, he had her on a budget but he went out and bought a new Harley. His second one.)

    1. Hi Lars,
      Removing waste is just that…removing waste. However you choose do it is the best way. For half blind or full blind dovetails, it is easier (if you have a drill press) to drill out the waste with a forstner bit, then clean up with chisels. Like Chris says, try it before you poo poo it.

      Oops, I used potty talk, sorry to offend.

      Chris,
      Can’t wait to see the new book! Keep up the good work.
      J

    2. Lars,

      If I have a ton of half-blinds or full-blinds to clean, a drill press with a fence saves hours of chopping. And when doing this book, EVERYTHING was dovetailed. Hence the drill press.

      1. Ah, now I get it. At first glance I mistook those half-blind dovetails for full through dovetails. I can see where drilling makes since in half or full blind. Thanks for the explanation.

  7. Chris,
    Would like to add my name to the “Campaign Furniture” list. Also l want “Grampa’s Woukshop”. No hurry could be shipped with CF order. When, how do I pay?

    1. Paul,

      Thanks for the interest. We don’t ship out of the united States, but many of our retailers do. Likely the best place to buy the book for you will be Lee Valley. They carry “Grandpa’s Workshop” and will likely carry “Campaign Furniture.” They offer competitive international rates.

      So I’d check with them about April.

      Best,

  8. Chris As someone who spent 33 years in the printing trades, 20 years of which were in digital prepress, high end color scanning and correcting, page construction and detail correction, and ended up the “data cop” in a fairly high-end shop, I enjoy your excursions into the details of your print production. Also, as someone who a few years ago was invited by new management to find other employment in a “downsize” and therefore had to turn what was to be a retirement business into a right now business, I enjoy your excursions into better quality hand woodwork and how to make that work a true production reality and not just an effete exercise. It hadn’t occurred to me to actually fence my drill press to clean my waste. It will beat my jewelers saw on large work six ways on Sunday. Thanks, James Oliver

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