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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 563704, member: 5066&quot;]Not complicated, furniture building 101. Certain build techniques were used at different times. In america, steam powered machines took over building furniture in the 1840s and except for custom work, never returned to the hand made ways.</p><p>Even in rural areas, the country cabinet shops had to convert or die because of railroads. Those rail cars didn&#039;t make one way trips empty, they were loaded both ways. Carried farm product to cities &amp; finished goods back to the country. By 1860, all the cities on east coast were connected by a network of rails and that extended into the MidWest as well where every farm was within a few miles of a railroad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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