Cricket Tables

by Derek Jones

You can download an excerpt from this book here.

Simplicity, necessity and ingenuity are the three key principles for making cricket tables. This traditional three-legged table exists in a variety of forms and woods – no two are the same. So making them follows an organic process – your tools and materials dictate your approach and your cricket table’s final form.

Jones introduces the form, then teaches you the simple skills to create a variety of everyday furniture with a few basic hand tools and easily sourced materials.

Technical Specifications

“Cricket Tables” is 112 pages, full color and printed on white, 70# matte coated 8-1/2" x 11" paper. The pages are sewn, glued and taped for durability. And the whole thing is wrapped with 98-point boards that are covered in lime cotton cloth. Like all Lost Art Press books, it is produced and printed in the United States.

Contents

Introduction 1
1. Misnommer & Nomenclature 5
2. Simple Forms & Variations 11
3. Huguenots & Other Influences 29
4. Building with Triangles 37
5. Human Resources 43
6. Geometry for 3 Legs 57
7. Jigs for Joinery 63
8. Projects 69
Afterword 99
Acknowledgments 101

About the Author

Derek Jones began working with antique furniture at 14 as a Saturday boy in a restoration workshop in Brighton. What followed was a couple of decades of design and commercial manufacture within the industry for retail customers and end users. Nearly 40 years later, the skills acquired in that little workshop have become an important part of his working methodology today – good construction and a careful choice of materials with a nod to the past.

As editor of the UK’s premier woodworking magazine, Furniture & Cabinetmaking (2008- 2018), Derek managed to combine his flare for making with a passion for sharing a range of skills that if not practiced might one day no longer be part of our lives. Time spent making things by hand today is perhaps the most important investment we can make for our future. Make things well and build them to last using materials and techniques that complement our natural resources.

Read more about Derek in a profile by Nancy Hiller.