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OK…I now have this book, “By Hand & Eye“, in my hands and can highly recommend it. The book introduces and explains the use of proportions for furniture design. This system will give you guidelines to properly proportion a piece to obtain the most pleasing forms. This system will also free you from the use of ruler dimensions and allow you to increase or decrease the scale of a project or adjust a project to fit the available lumber while maintaining the form. Dividers are heavily employed in this method and I have found their use to be both, liberating and highly accurate. The book contains drawing exercises that will walk you through geometric constructions up through the layout of a classic order Doric Column. The book also contains several projects, I’ve not built any of them yet, that will introduce you to the use of the system for actually producing a finished piece.
Even if you have no interest in using the system, the book is a good primer on geometric constructions for woodworking.
Give it look and see what you think.