How-To Books: Build Your Own Mantel

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• by John Lewman
• Second Edition
• Softcover: 130 pages

This book elevates mantel-making to an art and guides you through the intricacies of selecting, building, and installing your dream mantel.

Whether you're designing a new unit, retrofitting an existing fireplace, or going for a new look, this book covers every necessary topic for wood and gas systems.

Includes hundreds of designs and fifteen patterns you can make yourself.

You'll find completely updated and revised standards and specs on the newest innovations in fireplace technology, to help you build and install the mantel of your dreams. Dimensioned original drawings, full color photos and detailed close-ups will add depth and realism to your creative planning.

Building Fireplace Mantels

• by Mario Rodriguez
• Hundreds of photos
• Lots of color
• Softcover: 153 pages

A handsome mantel can be the centerpoint or focus of any room. Mario Rodriguez presents nine easy to build designs in his new book.

The book describes techniques and ideas for mantels that will make your fireplace stand out.

Making Mantels

• by David Getts
• Hundreds of color photographs
• Black and white drawings
• Softcover: 200 pages

Getts takes a professional's look at the art and craft of making mantels, with extensive color photo coverage of modern mantels and mantels from a century or more, ago.

The gallery of what is, and has been, covers more than 20 pages, some of which are exceptionally impressive (bookmatched mahogany paneling, with extensive carving at the upper trim parts) and exceptionally (and deceptively) simple looking, like a whitewashed flat maple mantel.

This book take you through the steps needed to produce both simple and complex mantels of your own. Coverage is provided for recessed side walls as well as non-recessed.Provides enough instruction for even a total beginner to make a good-looking, sturdy mantel, while it provides enough incentive to help the professional produce better looking mantels, both simple and complex as the client desires.

The Pocket Hole Solution to Trim Carpentry DVD

This educational DVD from Kreg features Gary Striegler, a second generation home builder with over 25 years experience.

Learn how to use the speed, strength and simplicity of pocket hole joinery to create a variety of eye-catching trim details for the home.

In this 114 minute DVD, Gary expertly shows you how use pocket hole joinery for:

   • Door jamb extensions
   • Fireplace mantels
   • Bookcases

• Window seats
• Newell posts

• Stairs
• Wainscoting

Crown Molding Router Bit Set

This set lets you make crown molding that surpasses anything you'll find at the lumberyard ...

... and crown molding is just the beginning! By arranging the profiles of the six router bits in various combinations you can create dozens - or hundreds - of different decorative profiles!

The set consists of a 7" diameter, 5/8" arbor cove cutter for your table saw, and six 1/2" shank carbide tipped router bits. All six bits - three ogees and three roundovers - feature CMT's unique inverted design.

Why use inverted profiles? Because the flat face of your workpiece always remains in firm contact with your router table for unprecedented accuracy and control.