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The Complete Illustrated Guide Books |
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 Turning and carving, as well as building accurately, are all included in a highly visual format. Over 400 photos and drawings illustrate the methods -- from half-blind dovetails to gooseneck moldings. If you love period details and long to create them, you will want this book.
You'll learn about:
» Casework techniques
» Moldings and edge treatments
» Carved and turned legs
» Period chair components
» Finials and applied carvings
About the Author:
Lonnie Bird is a professional woodworker, teacher, writer, and tool designer whose work has been featured in Fine Woodworking. His books include Shaping Wood, The Shaper Book, and The Bandsaw Book. He lives in Dandridge, Tennessee. |
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 This book fills a gap by providing the essential information needed for this key component of furniture and cabinet making. It uses the successful CIG format to illustrate hardware-related woodworking techniques — along with information on choosing appropriate hardware. It covers all the major classes of hardware from hinges and pulls to keyboard trays and television swivels.
Choosing hardware can be fun and creative, but selecting the right hardware for a job can be difficult -- even for the most experienced woodworker. Installing it is something else again. This book covers the entire range of hardware, including common household pieces such as locks, pulls, and handles; all presented in a straightforward style with step-by-step photos and instructions. Tips ease the installation process, and quick access guides help you find the exact information you need.
Choosing and Installing Hardware includes sections on:
» Nails, screws, and hinges
» Catches, latches and locks
» Assembly, knockdown and mounting hardware
» Knobs, handles, and pulls
» Cabinets and Built-ins
» Drawers, doors, and shelves
» Internal Architecture
» Bases, Backs, and Tops
» Hardware and Fasteners
» Hardware for tables, chairs, drawers, shelves, and beds
About the Author
Bob Settich is a freelance writer and woodworker who has written for Workbench, Wood, Woodshop News, and Better Homes and Gardens. He lives in Gladstone, Missouri. |
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 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. You'll acquire a working knowledge of woodworking materials, a higher control over your work and tools and an understanding of basic design principles.
Features Include:
» Graphic, step-by-step presentation of key techniques and methods
» Visual maps, cross-references and indexes make information easy to find
» Covers the many woodworking methods and tools available
» Modern, up-to-date coverage of tools and techniques
» Part of a three-volume encyclopedia of woodworking
The Author: Andy Rae
"After 20 plus years of practicing the craft, I still search daily for new ways of working. Once you discover something that works, call it your own and stand by it." -- Andy Rae |
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 Over 1,400 color photos and drawings illustrate the methods, from simple butt joints to angled tenons and complex scarf joints. A project as simple as a box, for example, has a dozen ways to solve the joinery question. And, since many joints can be used interchangeably, Joinery leads you through making the right choice for your project based on the function of the piece, the time you have to work on it, your skill level, and your tooling.
Perhaps best of all, Joinery features an appealing, modern visual approach and is completely up-to-date regarding tools and methods. This book will not gather dust on your bookshelf; it will be a permanent fixture in your shop. The real value of this book is the coverage of the many ways to get the same result. For example, there are eleven methods for cutting a simple mortise described here. This gives woodworkers the option of choosing the option that best fits their tooling and skill level. The book is organized for quick access, using visual maps, and detailed visual contents. Since nomenclature varies, the visual reference allows rapid identification of the desired result. And like a classic cookbook, this book gives all the standard methods and variations, but is especially useful for guidance on a seldom used, but necessary technique.
You will learn ways to master:
» Dovetails and finger joints
» Mortises and tenons
» Rabbets, dadoes, and grooves
» Scarf joints
» Lap and bridle joints
You will find that this book is:
» A modern replacement/complement to the classic woodworking bestseller: Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking.
» A complete visual reference on making woodworking joints.
» Over 1500 step-by-step color photos illustrate the processes.
» Covers every practical joint used in modern woodworking (and a few exotic joints).
» Multiple options depending on skill level and tools.
About the Author:
Gary Rogowski is a contributing editor of Fine Woodworking Magazine and the author of Router Joinery (and has appeared in the video of the same name). Rogowski has been a professional furniture maker for over twenty years and directs the Northwest Woodworking Studios, a woodworking School in Portland, Oregon. He regularly teaches and lectures on woodworking across the country. |
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