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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 564756, member: 5066&quot;]I am not trying to keep &quot;anything going&quot; but the notion that cabinet shops in america were left out of the industrial revolution until &quot; So it wasn&#039;t really until electric power was available&quot; is simply wrong.</p><p>It is generally accepted by furniture scholars that anything built after 1850 in the furniture world in america was largely machine made (excluding custom work), long before electricity became available.</p><p>You seem to be suggesting that machine made furniture didn&#039;t occur until &quot;electric power was available&quot;, this is simply wrong &amp; ignores the historical record.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I didn&#039;t say that, some drawer blades for example were dovetailed into the case &amp; not pinned however, i don&#039;t think i have ever seen a hand made piece of furniture where ALL the joints were glued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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