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Finish Carpentry

Built-Ins and Storage - For Pros, By Pros

RC-T070780
$17.95

Built-Ins and Storage - For Pros By Pros
Field-tested techniques for adding storage to your home - Storage never goes out of style. No matter how big the house, families always need more storage, which makes creating storage one of the magic words in the world of home building and remodeling. Built-in details that work well and look great start with the expert advice, tips, shortcuts, and techniques found in Taunton’s For Pros By Pros® books. Built-Ins and Storage gives you the information you need to select the right materials and complete each job to professional-level standards.

Hard-cover
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture & Cabinet Construction - Hard-cover

RC-T070534
$39.95

Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture & Cabinet Making
A graphic, step-by-step presentation of basic furniture construction techniques. Expert woodworker and writer Andy Rae takes the construction of furniture and breaks it into components -- from boxes, cases, doors and drawers to shelves and feet. He explains all the techniques used to build them, so you can choose the ones that are best for you. Then he shows you how to put the pieces together to make great furniture.

Hard-cover
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery - Hard-cover

RC-T070535
$39.95

Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
A comprehensive, step-by-step pictorial reference on joinery. There’s no more thorough and readable guide to joinery than this new book from expert woodworker Gary Rogowski. The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery uses full-color, step-by-step photo essays to show you how to make every practical woodworking joint. Over 1,400 color photos and drawings illustrate the methods, from simple butt joints to angled tenons and complex scarf joints.

SlipCase Set: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Woodworking

RC-T070665
$119.95
$107.95

Complete Illustrated Guides to Woodworking - 3 Volumes
   Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
   Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
   Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture & Cabinet Construction

Three volumes of the most authoritative and comprehensive references available on joinery, wood shaping, furniture construction, hardware, and period furniture details. Written by a "dream team" of professional woodworkers, each book is organized to give you accurate information quickly. Beginners will find a full library of techniques from which to learn woodworking. And veterans will find a source for inspiration, complete with unusual and seldom used techniques.

Hard-cover
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood - Hard-cover

RC-T070533
$39.95
$29.95

Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
A comprehensive and graphic wood shaping reference. In Shaping Wood, Bird shows you how to dress up your furniture, personalize your work and create period details. Learn to turn, carve, bend, cut and shape with hand tools or machines. All the techniques are in this accessible guide -- from cutting a simple circle to carving a ball-and-claw foot. He leads you through visualizing, drawing a shape and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it.

Finish Carpentry Effective Techniques for Custom Interiors

CR467
$34.95

Finish Carpentry Effective Techniques for Custom Interiors
This new book contains over 500 photos and illustrations from real job sites that show you how to achieve exceptional finish carpentry results in record time. You'll learn how to install windows, doors, baseboard, crown molding, and more. Find out about the tools, jigs and templates that let you do precision work at production speeds.

Finish Carpentry - For Pros By Pros

RC-T070633
$17.95

Finish Carpentry - For Pros By Pros
Tools, tips, and techniques for installing wainscots, casings, cornices, baseboards, and more. Pleasing proportions, clean lines, flawless miters, and other well-crafted details are all measures of excellence for finish carpentry. Finish Carpentry takes you to the job site to see exactly how topnotch trim carpenters get interior detailing done right. This book covers the essentials of interior trim and built-in construction, including techniques for constructing hutches, baseboards, windows, crown molding, and paneling.

Finish Carpenter's Manual

CR456
$22.50

Finish Carpenter's Manual
Everything you need to know to be a finish carpenter: assessing a job before you begin, and tricks of the trade from a master finish carpenter. Easy-to-follow instructions for installing doors and windows, ceiling treatments (including fancy beams, corbels, cornices and moldings), wall treatments (including wainscoting and sheet paneling), and the finishing touches of chair, picture, and plate rails. Specialized interior work includes cabinetry and built-ins, stair finish work, and closets.

Graphic Guide to Interior Details

RC-T070453
$24.95

Graphic Guide to Interior Details
A standard reference for residential framing details - This essential reference helps readers choose and install floors, walls, ceilings, cabinets, countertops, trim and stairs. Just as Rob Thallon's Graphic Guide to Frame Construction is the standard for residential frame construction details, this carefully researched volume is the authoritative guide to interior construction details. A must-have for the libraries of designers, builders, architects and anyone involved in residential construction or remodeling.

Machine and Hand Joinery

RC-T070902
$17.95

Machine and Hand Joinery
Learn Joinery Secrets to Long-Lasting Joints Using Both Traditional Hand Tools and Modern Machine Tools. The concept of joinery is as old as recorded history. Furniture with hand-cut dovetail joints has been found entombed with the mummies dating back to ancient Egypt. Several thousand years later, dovetails are still being used today to fasten objects of wood. The fact that there are thousands and thousands of pieces from 18th century still being used today shows just how durable good joinery can be. In these articles collected by the editors of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll learn how to use your hand and power tools to make tight joints that will help your furniture last for generations.

DVD
Sam Maloof - DVD

RC-T061032
$19.95

Sam Maloof - DVD
See Sam Maloof at Work Building and See How His Furniture Embodies His Ideas on Craftsmanship, Design and Technique. Sam Maloof is one of the fathers of contemporary woodworking. Now in this DVD profile of a master craftsman, you can see Maloof at work and home, and see how his furniture embodies his ideas on craft, design, and technique. This visually rich documentary spans a week with Sam Maloof while he builds and discusses his designs, including his much imitated Sam Maloof signature rocker. Its an opportunity to savor the nuances and substance that make Sam Maloof an inspiration to woodworkers everywhere.
Also Available In VHS Format

Hard-cover
Sustainable Commercial Interiors - Hard-cover

JW-0-471-74917-2
$74.95

Sustainable Commercial Interiors
An Illustrated, Step-By-Step Guide to Green Design Strategies for Commercial Interiors - Sustainable Commercial Interiors provides an engaging introduction to and exploration of the vast field of sustainable design as it specifically relates to commercial interior spaces. In Sustainable Commercial Interiors, the authors share their passion for environmental advocacy while offering designers and architects the technical knowledge important for success in this evolving discipline. The authors apply the concept of environmental responsibility to the design of interiors, and employ the organization of the LEED Green Building Rating System to sort the design process into five categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy issues, materials, and indoor environmental quality.

Hard-cover
Sustainable Residential Interiors - Hard-cover

JW-0-471-75607-1
$74.95

Sustainable Residential Interiors
An Illustrated Guide to Green Design Strategies for Residential Interiors - Issues of sustainability and environmental consciousness have been increasingly important to designers of residential interiors. With solutions for the design practitioner, this book covers topics such as indoor air quality, identifying low-impact materials, conserving energy and water, and support of construction teams in reducing waste, Sustainable Residential Interiors provides designers with the necessary information and tools to integrate environmentally responsible design into their practice. Sustainable Residential Interiors takes readers through an integrated design process, showing how sustainable principles and practices can be applied on virtually every level of interior design

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Set - 3 Volumes with Bonus Video

RC-T070880
$89.95

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Set - 3 Books with Bonus DVD
3 Volume Limited Edition Plus Bonus DVD of Woodworking Expert Tage Frid Teaching Woodworking. Through these three classic volumes, it's easy to see why we and woodworkers the world over consider Tage Frid a most cherished woodworking icon. His passion has inspired countless enthusiasts and even shaped the course of the craft today. In this limited-edition set (only 10,000 copies have been printed), the dean of American woodworking teachers, Tage Frid, brings to your shop more than half a century of woodworking insight and experience. You'll learn this master's techniques through step-by-step photos, detailed drawings, and thoughtful instruction. Set Includes Volumes on Joinery, Shaping, Veneering & Finishing, and Furniture making.
DVD Also Available Separately

Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins - Build Like a Pro Series

RC-T070592
$19.95

Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins - For Pros By Pros
Expert advice from start to finish. Learn how to get tight miters and crisp details when casing doors and windows, running baseboard, and putting up crown molding. Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins shows you how to get professional results with all of your common trim projects. Detailed instructions with hundreds of photos and drawings can help you overcome challenges like out-of-square walls, floors, and ceilings. You'll also learn how to design and build custom built-in bookcases and cabinets to enhance any room in the house.

Trim Carpentry Techniques - Installing doors, windows, base, and crown - Book & Video Combos

Trim Carpentry Techniques
Installing doors, windows, base, and crown
- Book & Video Combos - Once a home's framing and drywall are done, it's time for the trimwork -- the door and window casings and baseboard and crown moldings that give each interior its distinctive character.
"A handy refresher for the journeyman, explicit help for the do-it-yourselfer, and a must for the framing carpenter..."

Trim Complete

RC-T070911
$21.95

Trim Complete
Trim Complete delivers all the information you'll need to handle all kinds of trim and molding projects like a pro. With detailed instructions and over 800 step-by-step photos, expert carpenter Greg Kossow shows you how to complete every possible trim project, from simple baseboards to complicated casings. He even includes hard-to-find advice about complex crown moldings and creating custom moldings.

Trim Transformations - Do It Now / Do It Fast / Do It Right Series

RC-T070752
$16.95

Trim Transformations
Quick and Easy Trim and Moulding Projects You can Do Yourself -  This stylish, fresh approach to home improvement provides just the right combination of design inspiration and how-to information to enable you to express your own sense of style and get pro-level results every time. Expert advice and step-by-step photos will help you transform your home with a wide range of trim and molding applications. All projects can be completed in 1-3 days.

DVD
Wood Finishing Basics - DVD

RC-T061029
$19.95

Wood Finishing Basics - DVD
Surface prep, wipe-on and spray finishing, and a visit with a finishing expert - In this DVD, finishing expert Michael Dresdner shows you what you need to know to become a proficient wood finisher, starting with classic surface-prep problems and their solutions -- how to recognize and remove dents, how to recognize and fill gouges, how to pre-raise wood grain to get the best results under waterborne finishes, and, most important, how to sand wood.
 
 

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Slipcase Set: The Complete Illustrated Guides to Woodworking
3 Volume Set

Taunton’s For Pros by Pros: Finish Carpentry - Fine Homebuilding magazine
Finish Carpentry

The Very Efficient Carpenter - Basic framing for residential construction - Book & Video Combo
Book and Videos

Taunton’s For Pros by Pros: Built-Ins and Storage
Built-Ins and Storage

Trim Carpentry Techniques - Installing doors, windows, base, and crown - Book & Video Combos

Graphic Guide to Interior Details
Graphic Guide to
Interior Details

Hardwood Floors, Laying, Sanding and Finishing Book & Videos


Trim Complete

Sam Maloof - DVD
Sam Maloof
DVD or VHS

Build Like a Pro: Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins
Trim Carpentry
& Built-Ins

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Set - 3 Books with Bonus DVD
Tage Frid Teaches
Woodworking Set
3 Volumes with DVD

Sustainable Residential Interiors
Sustainable Residential Interiors

Sustainable Commercial Interiors
Sustainable Commercial Interiors