What's New
9/24/2009
Now
on CD:
TSC Volume 1
TSC Volume 2
TSC Volume 3
The
Scale Cabinetmaker
Reading List
The Scale Cabinetmaker & Depot Museum is now open.
In the Interim
Publications
The Scale Cabinetmaker
The
Cabinetmaker's
Guides
The
Best of TSC
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Sampling
The Wares
Why Scale?
In
the Interim (1976-2005)
Suppliers &
Other
Cool Sites
Retail Orders
We will be adding an online shopping cart in the next month (April 1, 2010). In the meantime, you can order from Dorsett Pubications by:
US Mail: Download the retail order form (pdf file), fill it in, and send your order and check to:
Dorsett Publications
630 Depot Street NE
Christiansburg, VA 24073Phone (credit card orders only): 540.382.6431
If you have questions, you can email Dorsett Publications
We can process credit card purchases onsite and it removes the possibility of online theft of credit information. Please see second page of the retail order form for more information. Due to problems with currency exchange (we are located in the non-population end of Virginia), we ask that all payments be in US funds only.
Domestic shipping & handling is included in the cost for shipping to the Continental US and Canada.
Outside of the US and Canada, shipping is extra: email Dorsett Publications with a list of what you want to order and we will calculate the shipping and customs costs for you and email the amount due.
Existing Publications: Currently, there are ten volumes in the Cabinetmaker's Guide series and six volumes in the Best of TSC series. In addition, there are still a number of issues of The Scale Cabinetmaker still in stock. You can peruse the catalogs of available titles online.. All publications, unless otherwise noted, are printed in a workbench friendly, looseleaf format and can be stored, when not in use, in a three-ring binder.
New Publications: In 1976, Jim and Helen Dorsett published the first issue of The Scale Cabinetmaker. Thirty years later, we are re-releasing The Scale Cabinetmaker on CD. The first volume will be available in Summer 2007. Each cd include a full year of TSC (four issues), additional construction and workbench notes, the history of Dorsett Publications and The Scale Cabinetmaker for the year of production, a list of suppliers and other resources for the modeler, and a cumulative index, all in pdf format. Dorsett Publications expects to release two to three volumes of The Scale Cabinetmaker per year.
The Scale Cabinetmaker. The cd-rom versions of TSC include all four issues of each volume, additional workbench notes, the TSC Reading List, and a cumulative index. Available volumes are:
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 1 (October 1976-July 1977).
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 2 (October 1977- July 1978).
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 3 (October 1978- July 1979).
Coming Soon:
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 4 (October 1979-July 1980)
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 5 (October 1980-July 1981)
- The Scale Cabinetmaker, Volume 6 (October 1981-July 1982)
The Best of TSC (Volume 7): The Stanley Whitman House. The plans and instructions for the model were originally published in the first volume of TSC (TSC 1:1-1:4). The prototype model, built by Jim and Helen Dorsett in 1976, was based on a post-and-beam house in Farmington, Connecticut and now resides, on permanent display, in the American Colonial Museum in Bath, England.
The Best of TSC (Volume 8): The Beginner's Workbench: Tools. The Beginner's Workbench was a series of articles, published during the 20 year span of TSC, that taught beginners basic tool use and modeling techniques. The articles used a photo-text format and step-by-step instructions that walked the beginning modeler through introductory modeling processes. The publication will be a must have for the beginning modeler.
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