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This title offers professional techniques to bring your furniture back to life. It features clear step-by-step instructions for everyday restoration tasks, such as polishing, staining, waxing, graining, gilding, veneering, and marquetry and parquetry repairs. It contains expert advice on essential tools, equipment and materials, from saws, hammers, screwdrivers, clamps and chisels to veneers, polishes, gilts, leather and locks. Projects include removing a blister, raising a dent, disguising a sc...

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...

This volume offers easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to transform inexpensive, unfinished furniture - bare pine, fibreboard, flat pack - with paint. Twenty designers have created 45 pieces, including tables, chests, a nightstand, dressers, benches, stools, bookcases, CD rack, entertainment units, chairs, a rocking chair, garden chairs, coatrack and a wall unit.

Take your carpentry skills to the next level as you explore an array of woodworking techniques, complete with step-by-step instructions and photographs.Want to master your woodworking techniques but don't know where to begin? Don't worry, DK has got you covered! Introducing Woodwork - a step-by-step guide to mastering key woodworking techniques - from basic through to more advanced types of wood joints, finishing, wood-turning, and furniture restoration. Discover how best to use all the essentia...

Furniture made from high-quality wood is as durable and timeless as it is pleasing to the senses. More than 30 species of deciduous and coniferous trees and the wood veneers produced from them are explored in this illustrated reference. Each type of wood is closely identified and notable properties such as malleability, durability, methods of treatment and colour changes due to ageing are thoroughly discussed. In addition, there is background information about each type of wood, including the hi...

A fun and informative manual designed to assist young people who want to decorate with "real" furniture in their new homes. The author sets out to help to guide the reader in finding a personal style and establishing a realistic budget, whilst at the same time working with colour. Bridges shares both her professional and personal anecdotes to help first-time home- and flat-owners make the transition in purchasing furniture that will endure for years. With the help of professional designers, Brid...

Maximize space, increase efficiency and bring new life to your shop! Woodworkers spend a lot of time in their shops, so why not make that space the best it can be? The 24 projects in Practical Woodshop Projects will allow you to:    • Organize your tools for maximum efficiency.    • Create functional and flexible workbenches and workstations.    • Maximize the performance of your woodworking machinery.    • Use your woodshop space most effectively. Each of the projects comes with easy-to-fo...

In a world where disposable furniture fabricated from stapled foam is becoming the depressing norm, this book teaches the classic principles of traditional upholstery using natural and sustainable materials - linen, horsehair, hessian and calico - to create furniture that you won't find in the shops.

This is a comprehensive workbench manual with practical advice on building a range of storage projects. Articles are selected from Fine Woodworking magazine, the most respected woodworking magazine in the world. It includes styles for every taste, from Shaker to modern. This collection of chests and cabinets from the pages of Fine Woodworking walks the reader through the process of building elegant works of furniture with the clear instruction and comprehensive drawings that Fine Woodworking is...

The unskilled or inexperienced amateur should find this book easy to work from and professional restorers should find it a valuable reference guide.

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a t...

Vic Tesolin's Projects from the Minimailist Woodworker teaches the basics of furniture making using step-by-step photos detailing the process of building handsome projects any woodworker will be proud to create. A follow-up to Vic's much-lauded first book, The Minimalist Woodworker, this book is a celebration of the small tool set needed to create beautiful work and and expansion of the techniques and skills learned in that first book. Like a seasoned woodworker lending a helping hand in the w...

This book of basic construction techniques uses exploded drawings and hands-on photographs as visual explanation. Divided into four main parts: construction; joints; furniture repair and restoration, and converting old furniture, the book looks at cupboards, doors, shutters and windows, locks, knobs, handles, cases, frames, tables, chairs and beds - and all the appropriate joints and repair techniques that go with them. The final "old-into-new" section includes instructions for converting a chai...

Toronto Makes features over 50 of the city’s most exciting creative entrepreneurs sharing the stories behind the crafts they’ve dedicated their lives to. This beautifully photographed and designed volume celebrates bakers and brewers, fashion and jewellery designers, furniture makers and ceramicists, and many more—an eclectic group of incredibly talented people who make Toronto a little more special. Toronto Makes pairs engaging profiles by Toronto writer Randi Bergman artful photos of the peo...