Project Plans
Fully Illustrated Projects to Build a Wide Variety of Furniture, Woodworking Projects, Storage Units and Workshop Fixtures

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Project Plans

Beds
Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Nine Classic Beds. A bed is one of the most significant pieces of furniture in most homes, ranking with the dining table as a major purchase or project. Jeff Miller, winner of the 1998 Stanley Award for best woodworking book, offers nine attractive bed projects accessible to woodworkers of any skill level. In Beds, you'll find step-by-step projects for a small bed, a Shaker-style bed, a Craftsman-style bed, a pencil-post bed, a plywood platform bed, a Windsor chair inspired bed, a modern "city" bed, a sleigh bed, and a bunk bed. You're sure to find more than one that will inspire you.

Bookcases
Bookcase Projects and Plans for Building 11 Classic Bookcase Projects. Bookcases are one of the most accessible and commonly built projects -- who doesn't need or want open storage for their homes? The projects in this book cover a range of styles and difficulty -- and they all are designed by well-known custom woodworkers from around the country. Clear step-by-step instructions guide you through the building of each project, and exploded and measured drawings show every detail.

Build A Shaker Table - DVD
From Stock Selection to Final Detailing, You Can Build Your Own Shaker Dining Room Table. Want to build your own Shaker-style dining table? You can -- once you've watched how furniture maker Kelly Mehler handles the task. You'll watch a skilled craftsman organize the entire process of making a traditional leg-and-apron table, from stock selection to finish preparation. And you'll be able to use his techniques for any furniture project you want to tackle
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Building Fireplace Mantels
Distinctive Fireplace Mantel Projects You Can Build for Any Style Home. The building of fireplace mantels is fast becoming one of the most popular home renovation projects in the country. The attractive and distinctive fireplace mantels in this book will inspire you to build your own. Nine projects reflect all the popular home styles from Colonial to Arts and Crafts and Contemporary, ensuring a project to suit your home and tastes. Step-by-step instructions, cutlists, and excellent process photography and illustrations make the mantels accessible -- whatever your skill level. An initial chapter surveys materials for building and finishing mantels. You wont find a better how-to book on fireplace mantels anywhere.

Chests of Drawers
Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Seven Classic Chests of Drawers. Chests of drawers are one of the most popular woodworking projects. Although they may seem complex and daunting, they are actually not difficult to build, especially with the advice of a veteran woodworker. This book includes step-by-step photos, clear building instructions, cut lists, and measured drawings for each project. There is also a bonus chapter on how to solve the challenges in building large case pieces, as well as advice on creating original designs or adapting the designs in this book. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker, the projects will provide plenty of challenges to increase your skills. You'll also find numerous tips and jigs you can use on all your projects.

Children's Furniture Projects
Tasteful Projects for a Childhood's Worth of Furniture. Building furniture for a child is a special pleasure for a woodworker. And because kids need safe and durable furniture sized to their needs, furniture for them presents special challenges, too. Children's Furniture Projects provides a mix of projects that has something for woodworkers of all skill levels. The ten projects - ranging from a fanciful rocking dinosaur to sturdy children's beds -- are designed to help make the children's room as well furnished as any other room in the house. Many of these projects have knockdown construction, which makes the pieces easy to store once they are outgrown. Detailed step-by-step instructions and photos explain how to construct durable furniture that will last a whole childhood.

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.

Dining Tables
Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Nine Dining Room Tables. Chairs are ubiquitous, found in every home, office, and building. Almost all are commercially made since many woodworkers shy away from making chairs, or even stools. Granted, there are not too many square parts to most chairs, and compound angles are somewhat intimidating. But the articles in this book, reprinted from Fine Woodworking magazine, should help dispel any questions or fears you may have about chair building. Not only can you build them, you can make them better than the average commercially made models

Furniture You Can Build
Improve Your Skills While Enjoying Your Time in The Shop. Written Especially For Those Who Can't Devote All Hours of Their Day to Woodworking. Geared for real people - those who want to improve hand-tool and machine skills, but not willing to embark on a seven-year apprenticeship - this book is designed to help you enjoy your time in the shop. As you work through these pages, you'll learn how to work with and build on the skills and tools you already have. And when the sawdust settles, you should also have a few attractive pieces to add to your home or give to friends. My sincerest hope is that someone may look at one of your projects and say, "Wow, you made this yourself?"

Getting Started In Woodworking
Skill Building Woodworking Projects That Teach The Basics of Woodworking. An up-beat and accessible introduction to woodworking. You'll learn basic skills while building attractive and useful furniture. The book employs a friendly tone that will inspire you and give you confidence -- especially if you have little or no experience using tools. Each project teaches specific skills, which can be applied later on, and results in a piece of furniture that you will be proud to have made. Among the projects you will learn to build are a rustic coffee table, two-shelf bookcases, and a funky outdoor easy chair. Throughout the book, Fraser explains in detail the key operations or techniques that are needed to build the project. Helpful color photos and drawings guide you along the way.

In The Shaker Style
Building Furniture Inspired By The Shaker Tradition. Shaker furniture is beautiful, yet simple, craftsmanship. In the Shaker Style, from the pages of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll find the ideas and techniques of more than 15 contemporary artisans and instructions for more than 10 projects, from Shaker chairs to bookcases. Detailed illustrations and photographs accompany each project. In addition, you'll see how distinctive Shaker details can be adapted for use in today's furniture.

Lathes and Turning Techniques
Learn The Secrets of Production Wood Turning On A Lathe. In these 36 Fine Woodworking articles, woodworkers reveal the secrets of production turning and share information on decorative folk turning, spindle turning, and sharpening and honing tools. There are also Wood Turning techniques and projects -- everything from traditional nutcrackers to 3-ft.-wide burl platters. The work is both accessible and diverse. With one lathe, a half-dozen tools, and some lumber you can turn all the parts for a chair or hollow out a bowl.

Projects For Your Shop
Improve Both Your Workshop and Your Woodworking Skills With These Straightforward, Practical Workshop Projects. The projects in this book are no-nonsense, straightforward pieces designed to improve both your workshop and your woodworking skills. When learning to build a set of sawhorses, you'll become familiar with a circular saw. And as you build a workbench, you'll become more skilled with the circular saw and learn the ins and outs of a router and biscuit joiner as well. When you make a stand and outfeed tables for your table saw, you'll learn to join a case piece using biscuits; a task you'll encounter repeatedly as a woodworker. Building a router table, you'll learn another common method for building cases: using the table saw to cut dadoes and rabbets.

Tables
Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Ten Tables. From a Shaker sewing table to a display table for art objects, Tables offers 10 excellent reasons to spend quality time in the shop. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker, the projects offered by Anthony Giudice in this book will provide plenty of challenges to increase your skills. The table projects include a candlestand, an end table, a Shaker sewing table, two coffee tables, a display table, a half-round console table, a hall table, a cherry kitchen table, and a trestle table.

Treasure Chests
The Legacy of Extraordinary Boxes and Chests. Treasure Chests traces the fascinating evolution of the boxes that have held the things that people valued most over the centuries. From tool chests to toy chests, this book celebrates how extraordinary a box can be when it is meant to hold something we treasure. The chests in this book are themselves treasures. Some are amazing for where they have been or who used them. They are veterans of battlefields or the Ringling Brothers circus. Others ingeniously execute the purpose for which they were made -- tightly fitted tool chests and sea chests that shed water. Many are finely designed, elegantly crafted, or made of rare and costly materials. Beautifully photographed, each of the more than 100 extraordinary chests included in this book has an amazing story to tell.

Turning Projects - Book
23 Wood Turning Projects with Step-by-Step Instructions. Richard Raffan has a master's eye when it comes to turning wood. In this book, he presents 23 intriguing woodturning projects -- rolling pins and mallets, hollow vessels, scoops, and ladles, even a turned hedgehog. The projects range from simple to complex, and Raffan provides you with complete instructions with step-by-step photos and drawings. These projects will lead you through a skill-building course in woodturning. A photo gallery of ideas at the end of each chapter is sure to inspire you to turn some truly unique pieces.

Turning Projects - DVD
87 Minute Companion Video to Turning Projects Book. In this video, you'll learn to select the wood species best suited for a wide variety of turning projects. Raffan shows you how to manipulate skews, gouges and parting tools to produce the whole repertoire of wood-turning cuts, and how to recognize the structural aspects of a project as it develops on the lathe. Raffan also shows you how to sand and apply finishes and waxes, and he offers important safety tips throughout the video.
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