are there any books/ plans about building primative style furnature?
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Probably, but it seens to me that primitive means that the builder didn't follow any plan or style, but the finished product shows the inate talent of the artist.
Formal training negates the primitive. Follow your instincts and see what happens.
Peter
Roy Underhill's books are a good reference - primative to me suggests materials from the immediate area worked with basic tools (and probably not a complete set of tools) - axe and froes and drawknife(maybe) - 'The Pine Furniture of Early New England' by Russell Hawes Kettell contains lots of nice examples -
also, many of the books by Eric Sloane contain good information early american construction/tool use
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