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Get started on your woodwork practice with this ultimate guide to essential carpentry skills, techniques, tools, tips, and tricks. Complete and easy directions for key skills, from simple joinery techniques to more involved woodworking projects, with clear helpful photographs. Key carpentry skills, from simple joinery techniques to fine woodworking projects, through clear, step-by-step instructions and photographs. New carpenters will learn about the essential tools needed and the principles...

Includes useful and money-saving projects, each with its own step-by-step instructions and materials list.

This comprehensive, information-packed course introduces the reader to a full range of woodworking tools and skills through a series of progressively challenging furniture projects. Step-by-step photographs, detailed plans, and cutting lists accompany each project, demonstrating all the basic woodwork techniques. Techniques include: shaping techniques - using hand and power tools; choosing timber - how to select and prepare wood for different projects; finishing techniques - putting the finishin...

With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate ""how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it."" This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworki...

Projects for all ages, with easy-to-follow large scale plans and instructions for making simple models of houses, boats and trains as well as puppets, climbing figures, hobby-horses, ganes and much more.

Smart projects that give new life to old lumber. The Reclaimed Woodworker provides inspiration and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction for beginning and intermediate woodworkers who want to make well-built, stylish furniture and furnishings from reclaimed lumber. Featuring 21 projects ranging from the ever-popular sliding barn door to modern desks to chairs with vintage charm, each project is designed to use upcycled materials without sacrificing style. They are modern and fresh, but based...

From one of the most respected instructional authors in woodworking today, this step-by-step guide shows how to build and utilise jigs in the workshop.'

Finding straightforward, step-by-step and attractive projects is a constant challenge for the 'weekend woodworker'. Now, Phillip Gardner has designed a range of fun, original and contemporary projects sure to keep home-based carpenters busy for months. Projects range from smaller items-such as a stylish CD rack, mailbox, picture rail shelf and birdhouse-then progress to larger, easy-to-assemble projects such as a wall cupboard, child's bed, computer workstation or coffee table. Each project prov...

Glen D. Huey pieces are instantly recognizable--in large part because of his signature finishes; they make Glen's work stand out in any room. Now, you can achieve the same eye-catching result with step-by-step instruction from Glen. Whether you work with figured woods such as tiger maple or flame birch, or you use traditional hardwoods such as cherry, walnut or mahogany, the DVD shows you everything you need to make your finishes pop!

All woodworkers have a pile of wood scraps lying about, but aren't sure how to put it to use. Kerry Pierce helps them work with this perfectly good material in fun and creative ways. In 18 projects, Pierce shows woodworkers how to tum their leftovers into great gifts using carving, turning and hand-tooling techniques. Step-by-step photos and instructions are included with each project. Woodworkers will start turning their "waste" into carved kitchen utensils, small boxes, letter openers, jewellr...