Woodworking Books
Books and
DVD's about Woodworking, Joinery, Shaping Wood,
Cabinet Making
and
Furniture Making
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Basic Box Making
Learn The Art of Making Wooden Boxes
from One of the Foremost Experts in the Craft.
Fundamentals of box making: the elements of good design, wood
selection and preparation, and finishing. The basics are followed by
tips and techniques on cutting, gluing, and reinforcing joints,
decorating lids, and installing hinges. In later chapters, you'll
learn more sophisticated techniques, such as making spectacular
bookmatched lid panels, sprucing up the interiors with lining,
dividers, and trays, using frame-and-panel lid construction,
dovetails, and finger joints, and dealing with specialty hardware.
In addition to Freedman's designs, there are also selected projects
from a number of professional box makers.
Companion
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Box Making Basics
Basic Wood Box Making Design
Ideas, Techniques and Projects from An Expert Box Maker.
Fundamentals of box making: the elements of good design, wood
selection and preparation, and finishing. The basics are followed by
tips and techniques on cutting, gluing, and reinforcing joints,
decorating lids, and installing hinges. In later chapters, you'll
learn more sophisticated techniques, such as making spectacular
bookmatched lid panels, sprucing up the interiors with lining,
dividers, and trays, using frame-and-panel lid construction,
dovetails, and finger joints, and dealing with specialty hardware.
In addition to Freedman's designs, there are also selected projects
from a number of professional box makers. |
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Building Doors and
Drawers
How To Make Cabinet Doors and
Furniture Drawers That Are Stylish, Functional and Uncomplicated.
Whatever type of cabinets you're creating, doors and drawers are at
the center of their style and functionality. When you're done, they
get all the attention. But to get precisely the results you're
looking for, you need a plan, some reliable techniques, maybe even a
few inside tips. Discover practical tips and advice from expert
cabinet maker Andy Rae, step-by-step instructions, plus 35 drawings
and 325 full-color photos that show you exactly how to handle every
facet of design and construction |
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The Complete Guide to
Sharpening
A Comprehensive Guide to Sharpening Tools -
From Chisels to Drill Bits. You know how
frustrating it is to work wood with tools that are dull. All that is
over. Tool expert Leonard Lee has consolidated a lifetime of study
of sharpening methods, techniques, and devices into the most
practical reference on the subject. You'll discover the most
effective ways to sharpen your tools -- from chisels to drill bits.
You'll get better edges than on most razor blades, and you'll learn
how to shape them to cut better and stay sharp longer. In fact,
Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment wil allow you to
sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter. |
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Complete Illustrated Guide to
Box Making
Create, Shape and Finish Wooden Boxes
with Beautiful Results.
Making small boxes is a favorite project for many woodworkers.
While it may seem a simple process, there are many ways to build a
box -- and in this comprehensive pictorial reference, veteran
woodworker Doug Stowe covers all the techniques you will need to
produce boxes you'll be proud of. You'll learn about making boxes by
using traditional carcase joinery or by shaping on the bandsaw or
lathe. Covers special boxmaking techniques associated with making
lids and bases, attaching them to the box, and partitioning boxes to
hold small objects like jewelry. Additionally, there are a host of
techniques for creating special effects that decorate a box, turning
the small, useful object into a jewel itself. |
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Complete Illustrated Guides to Woodworking - 3
Volumes
The Complete Illustrated Guide
to Joinery
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
The 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Complete Illustrated
Guide to Using Woodworking Tools
A Visual Guide to
Using Hand and Power Woodworking Tools. This
step-by-step pictorial reference covers using all the tools found in
a modern woodworking shop. Organized for quick access, this book
makes it easy to find exactly the technique you are looking for.
Over 850 photos and drawings illustrate using hand and power tools,
including choosing the right tool for the job, setting it up, and
basic and special operations. |
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Dovetail A Drawer - DVD
Dovetail Joint
Techniques to Create Drawers That Fit. If it's
properly fitting drawers you're after, this is the dovetail video
workshop for you. Professional cabinetmaker Frank Klausz cuts quick,
precise dovetails without jigs or templates, then glues up and fits
the finished drawer. This 55 minute video teaches you how to make
perfect dovetail joints for drawers and cabinets without the need
for jigs or templates.
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Identifying Wood
How To Accurately Identify Over
180 Types of Hardwoods and Softwoods with Simple Tools.
With just the naked eye and a hand
lens or elementary microscopy, you will be able to identify over 180
domestic and tropical hardwoods and softwoods by following the
straightforward techniques in this book. |
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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. |
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Making Mortise and Tenon
Joints - DVD
Produce Clean and
Quick Mortise and Tenon Joints, By Hand or Machine.
Woodworkers rely on the versatile
mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools,
tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint
cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines.
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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. |
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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.
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Available In VHS Format |
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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 |
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Understanding Wood
A Craftsman's Guide to Wood
Technology.
The first edition of
Understanding Wood was published in 1980 and has since sold more
than 130,000 copies. It is widely held as a definitive reference
work and the cornerstone of every woodworker's library. Now, Bruce
Hoadley's comprehensive guide to wood technology has been revised
and updated in this 20th-anniversary edition of a classic. New
information on composite materials, adhesives, and finishes brings
this book into the 21st century, while more than 300 photographs
bring important visual information to life. This edition covers the
nature of wood and its properties, the basics of wood technology,
and the woodworker's raw materials. Understanding Wood was
written for woodworkers by a scientist with a love of woodworking.
It will be sought after by craftsmen and collectors alike. |
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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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Woodworking
Basics
Master Woodworking Skills
Essential to Woodworking Craftsman. Woodworking
Basics presents an approach to learning woodworking that has
proven successful for hundreds of people who have taken the author's
introductory course over the past 20 years. Peter Korn's method
helps new woodworkers learn the right techniques from the beginning.
More experienced woodworkers can use it to master the classic
furniture-making skills key to fine craftsmanship. Korn includes two
attractive and useful projects -- a small bench and a side table
with a door and drawer -- providing you the opportunity to practice
skills and develop confidence with tools. |
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Woodworking
Techniques
Learn to Assemble, Decorate and
Complete Fine Wood Furniture. Woodworking Techniques
brings together the best articles on the construction techniques
necessary for both amateurs and pros to assemble, decorate, and
complete fine furniture. The editors provide seasoned advice from
well-known experts in the field on every type of furniture project,
with special focus on details such as hinges and locks, moldings,
veneers, and inlay. Over 300
illustrations and photos help move projects from the idea stage to
reality. |
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Tage Frid Teaches
Woodworking Set
3 Volumes with DVD
3 Volume Set
 Book
and Videos
Sam Maloof
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