Popular Mechanics published this book as three volumes in the early 1900s, and Schiffer has gathered them into one handy tome. Windsor supplies measured drawings and woodworking instructions for some 110 projects, ranging in difficulty from a boxy six-piece piano bench to a luxurious sideboard with leather-lined drawers. The designs all have quintessentially Mission forms and details, like slats, square posts, projecting tenons, and ornamental tacks. A few of the suggested furniture types are entertainingly obscure or obsolete, such as a “pyrographer’s table,” “chafing-dish buffet,” and a billiard table that can be folded to form a davenport. The book also helpfully explains carpentry fine points, including “cutting tenons with a hand-saw” and “making screws hold in the end of grain wood.”