Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls

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(5 stars) - Looks like a good book.
Haven't built anything yet but the book looks very good. I like the drawings.
I am barely a novice...I bought Woodworking for Dummies also.

(5 stars) - awesome
My husband and I can't wait to start building furniture for the 18" dolls. He really enjoyes working with wood.

(3 stars) - Good designs, but lacking detail
This book had several good furniture designs for beds, chests, bookcases, etc. However the assembly instructions were very hard to follow. It could really use an assembly drawing to illustrate how each piece of furniture goes together. You should also be aware that you will need a pretty good assortment of tools to cut and assemble the parts. It would be nice if there were a list of recommended tools. This was not a problem for me, but it could be if you are not a woodworker. Also, check the measurements as I found several incorrect measurements in the book.

(2 stars) - Almost, not quite
I am an experienced woodworker with a well-equipped shop who makes period furniture without problems. I bought this because I wanted plans at the American Girl scale to build with my daughter who is a beginner woodworker. So far we've built the picnic table and the instructions were overly sketchy and the plans were wrong. After we realized this I had to redraw everything to fix it and restart. Also, structurally it isn't a very practical design and a couple of extra slats would make it much sturdier and easier to construct. At least for this plan you are probably better off just following an actual picnic table plan and scaling it.

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