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A History of the Amateur Woodworking Movement

A Decade-by-Decade Narrative of Amateur Woodworking in America From 1900 to 2000

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Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4 Chap 5 Chap 6
Chap 7 Chap 8 Chap 9 Chap 10 Chap 11 Chap 12

Headnote for Manuals    Manuals by Decade

1900-before 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1930 1931-1940 1941-1950
1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-later

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Prologemena

Introduction: The Pivotal Roles of the 1920s, the 1950s, and the Hour Glass Analogy  (see Appendix 16)

1. Woodworking: 1900 and Before: Nineteenth century and earlier background [under construction]

Document 15: C M Woodward, on the importation of the Russian system of teaching woodworking 1887


Appendix 23: From Handicraft System to Factory System

Appendix 24: From Hand Tools to Machine Tools

2. Woodworking 1901-1910 [under construction]

Document 1: P H Adams Reclining Chair May 1902

Document 2: A L Hall "Workshop at Home" 1908

Document 6: a 1904 article heralding "The Significance of the Arts and Crafts Movement for Woodworking" 

Document 19: Gustav Stickley -- The Motif of 'Mission' 

Document 21: Frank Lloyd Wright -- Art and Craft of the Machine 1901


Document 27: Gustav Stickley: "The Structural Style in Cabinet-Making" House Beautiful  15, December 1903, pages 78-93  

Document 42: IRA S. GRIFFITH "Recreation with Tools" Countryside Magazine and Suburban Life 10 June 1910 pp 22+

Document 48: William L Price "The Attitude of Manual Training to the Arts and Crafts" 1905

Document 49: William L Price "The Building of a Chair" 1904

3. Woodworking 1911-1920 [under construction]

Document 3: H H Windsor "How to Make a Morris Chair"
Document 25: Electrical World 75 May 15 1920

Document 29: R A Wagner "The Development of Skilled Mechanics" The Building Age 36 1914


4. Woodworking 1921-1930 [under construction]

Appendix 19: The Impact of Electrification

Appendix 20: Electric Woodworking Tools Developed in the 1920s

Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America

Appendix 23: J D Wallace Jointer

Appendix 24: J D Wallace Table Saws

Appendix 25: Appendix 25: Notes for Piece on Modernism, Modernization, Modernity, Antimodern

Appendix 26: From Handicraft System to Factory System

Appendix 27: From Hand Tools to Machine Tools

Appendix 28: not yet uploaded

Appendix 29: Geoge C. Kelley and Ray L. Carter Develop the Router

Document 4: Paul D Otter "Morris Chair" 1914 (reprinted 1923)

Document 9: "Notes on Progress of the Use of Electricity in the Industrial and Domestic Field" 1921

Document 13: Paul V. Woolley's "The Importance of Projects in the Education of Boys" 1926

Document 14: Principles of Bauhaus Production 1926

Document 22: Henry B Allen -- Improvements in Steels for Woodcutting Saws and Knives 1930  

Document 23: John Shaw Portable Electrically-Driven Machines 1928 

Document 24: Paul D Otter on "Mechanic", "Cabinetmaker", "Craftsman", "Carpenter" 1923

Document 41:  Popular Homecraft volume 1, number 1, 1930 "The Growing Popularity of Homecraft Workshops"

Document 46: William Klenke "The Saw That Saws on Top"

Document 47: Stanley Rule and Level Plant "This Will be the Bench" 1927

5. Woodworking 1931-1940 [under construction]

Document 12: The formation of the National Home Workshop Guild  1933

Document 10: Hobbs Working With Tools 1935

Document 16: Joseph Aronson on "Modern Furniture" 1938

Document 20: Anonymous "Riding a Hobby Leads to Profit" Furniture Record 1937

Document 43: Torque. What Is It?

6. Woodworking 1941-1950 [under construction]

Appendix 22: Hans Goldschmidt and his Shopsmith

Document 8: Popular Science "How the Hammer, Saw and Try-Square Can Satisfy" 1946

Document 44: John Folkerth Interviews Hans Goldschmidt

Document 45: Herman Hjorth "The Router" 1949

7. Woodworking 1951-1960 [under construction]

Document 11: Gordon B Ashmead "Precision Makes the Shopsmith" 1951

Document 5: Creden "America Rediscovers Its Hands" 1953

Document 17: Judson Mansfield Woodworking Machines -- History of Development, 1852-1952  

Document 18: N C Brown From Handmade to Mass-Produced Furniture 1952  

Document 28: Walt Durbahn: "Our House is Different! Yours Can Be Too!" 1954  

Document 26: Herman Hjorth on the Radial Arm Saw Home Craftsman Magazine J-F 1950 

Document 32: Walt Durbahn -- A Model for Work Experience: The Building Trades in 1950s 

Document 33: Walt Durbahn: "Make a Hit With Your Handyman" 1954 


8. Woodworking 1961-1970 [under construction]


9. Woodworking 1971 -1980 [under construction]


10. Woodworking 1981-1990 [under construction]

Document 7: Mark Duginske, "Thoughts on a Working System." 1983


11. Woodworking 1991-2000 [under construction]

12. Woodworking early 21st century [under construction]

Appendices: (under construction)

Appendix 1: Memoir of Forty Years of Woodworking

Appendix 2: The Morris Chair as an Icon of Amateur Woodworkers

Appendix 3: The Evolution of the Tilt-Arbor Table Saw (under construction)

Appendix 4: A Century of Woodworking Manuals (under construction)

Appendix 5: A Note on the Index to Handicrafts

Appendix 6: Evolution of the Woodworker's Cutting Edge  

Appendix 7: Creativity and Woodworking: Is woodworking "process" or "product"? (under construction 6-22-07)

Appendix 8: The Newbie Woodworker?s Guide to the Anatomy and Physiology of Wood (under construction)

Appendix 9: Defining Industrial Arts 

Appendix 10: Furniture Styles 

Appendix 11: On the Origins of the Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Style

Appendix 12: The Aesthetic Movement 1875 - 1885

Appendix 13: Defining Modernistic Furniture Design for Amateur Woodworkers in the 1930s

Appendix 14: Stanley Tools (Corporate) How to Work With Tools and Wood, 1927, & 1952

Appendix 15: Woodworker's Manuals in Public Libraries

Appendix 16: Amateur Woodworking - Hour Glass Analogy

Appendix 17: Editorial Advisors

Appendix 18: On the Origin of the Radial Arm Saw

Appendix 19: The Impact of Electrification

Appendix 20: Electric Woodworking Tools Developed in the 1920s

Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America

Appendix 22: Hans Goldschmidt and his Shopsmith

Appendix 23: From Handicraft System to Factory System

Appendix 24: From Hand Tools to Machine Tools


Appendix 25: Notes on Modernism, Modernization, Modernity, Post-Modern, Antimodern

Appendix 26: The Evolving Concept of Leisure

Appendix 27: Home-Ownership's Central Role for Amateur Woodworking