I’m very much looking forward to this book.  Ive been using dividers and the sector in the shop as much as I can.  The less I use my ruler the more accurate I become.

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.

My copy is waiting for me at the post office. I’ll pick it up next week. Thanks for your feedback on it, Greg. Good to see you recommending it.

I’m still making my way through ‘With The Grain’ so it’ll be a week before I can start a new one!

George.

For those of you who are reading this book…the Doric column exercise is a challenge. Spent several hours today but I got thru it. I think its correct…learned quite a bit about proportions.

Thanks George.