What's New
1/22/2010
The Scale Cabinetmaker
Cumulative Index
Volume 1 to Volume 3
Now
on CD:
TSC Volume 1
TSC Volume 2
TSC Volume 3
The
Scale Cabinetmaker
Reading List (1976-1980)
The Contributors to
The Scale Cabinetmaker
(1976-1995)
The Scale Cabinetmaker
& Depot Museum is now open.
In the Interim
Publications
The Scale Cabinetmaker
The
Cabinetmaker's
Guides
The
Best of TSC
Retail Order Form
Sampling
The Wares
Why Scale?
In
the Interim (1976-2005)
Suppliers &
Other
Cool Sitesß
Contacting Dorsett Publications
Dorsett Publications, LLC. Publishing quality miniature plan, pattern, and technique books since 1964.
Dorsett Publications, LLC is a new name for an old company. The company was started by Jim and Helen Dorsett as Dorsett Miniatures in 1964. In 1976, when they began publishing The Scale Cabinetmaker, they renamed the company to Dorsett Publications, Inc. In 1996, after 20 years of publishing TSC, Jim retired, although he continued to produce new books and started working on the re-release of TSC on cd-rom. In 2006, the company was reincorporated as Dorsett Publications, LLC. After more than 40 years, we are still a family-owned company.
We pride ourselves in releasing quality miniature plans, patterns, and technique publications. In an essay "Why Scale?", published in the first issue of TSC, Jim defined the mission for both The Scale Cabinetmaker and Dorsett Publications. He often said that he and Helen started the journal as an answer to the age old assumption that "men don't play with dollhouses and women don't use tools."
Since its founding, we have published materials on everything from building Victorian furniture to building power supplies to caning. We invite you to spend some time exploring the website, download a sample project, read the essays on scale modelling, and, if you are new to miniatures, pick up an x-acto knife and join the fun.
Meghan Dorsett
A Note about our logo and the depot. The drawing of the train and the Cambria (Christiansburg) Depot (our new logo) was done by Joe Olivaras in 1985 for the first "Depot Day" celebration in 1986. Sale of the poster helped pay for the depot's rennovation. We still sell the poster through the Cambria Toy Station Museum Shop to help support the endless work involved in maintaining a 140+ year old building that sits 15 feet from the mainline of the Norfolk-Southern rail tracks.
In addition to remaining the headquarters and workshop of Dorsett Publications, the depot serves as home to the Cambria Depot Museum, featuring the prototype models from Jim and Helen Dorsett, Cambria Toy Station Museum Shop , an occasional home to the publishers, and the depot security force (two small dogs with more hair than body mass). If you are driving through Virginia on I-81, stop in Christiansburg, stick your head in the door, and have a cup of coffee (the pot is always on).
