Woodwork category: 409 books

What's the best way to get a workshop to work well--no matter its size or how much equipment is in it? This book tells all. It shows woodworkers who want to do more how to do it better with functional shops that meet their needs. Featuring a great selection of well-designed projects, this step-by-step...

This title is suitable for absolute beginners looking to become confident woodworkers. It combines the best material from Taunton's Getting Started in Woodworking Series. It includes detailed step-by-step photos, illustrations, shop schematics and exploded drawings. For beginners looking to become...

Over the centuries, craftsmen have transformed humble objects-drills, saws, planes, and levels-into works of art. This new title expands on Sandor Nagyszalanczy's acclaimed The Art of Fine Tools by offering a world tour of objects that rarely leave the private vaults of collectors. A visual feast...

A handy pocket-sized guide that offers all the tips, tricks, and ideas a woodworker or DIY-er needs to get the most out of this indispensable tool. (#2)Covering everything you need to get the most out of your tools, the Missing Shop Manual Series goes beyond basic safety and set-up. You'll learn tips...

Show off your woodworking skills--in the kitchen! Anyone who has ever entertained knows that guests inevitably end up in the kitchen--so what better place to showcase your woodworking? Why not add a hand-crafted focal point--a kitchen island or handsome touches such as a cutting board, spice...

This vintage book contains a course of woodworking exercises, together with a short treatise on wood, designed for manual training classes in schools and colleges. With a wealth of invaluable information and simple directions, this volume is highly recommended for novice woodworkers, and would make...

Revised and expanded, with new full-color photographs Steps for planning and locating a fence, setting posts, creating infill, and attaching gates Techniques for building the fence you want Advice on tools, materials, foundations, and special features Easy-to-use patterns Foldout of full-size pickets 130 designs included

Learn everything there is to know about building a wood fire. Fire has brought humans together for millennia. The cozy warmth of the hearth and the adventure of the campfire draw the same attention today as they did 100 years ago. Part how-to, part history of fire, Building Wood Fires...

Few pieces of furniture, save perhaps chairs, work as hard as doors. Building them to last, especially exterior doors, takes knowledge and experience that don’t come from making other types of furniture, such as tables and bookcases. Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your...

This handy pocket sized guide offers all the tips, tricks, and ideas a woodworker or furniture maker needs to get the most out of this indispensable tool.

One area where woodworkers strive to gain more information is on the topic of finishing. Since finishing is one of the most important aspects to any woodworking project, it can become a frustrating process for many woodworkers regardless of skill level. Wood Finishing Simplified breaks down the various...

Famed woodworker and Emmy Award-nominated talent Tommy "Mac" MacDonald takes readers by the hand to create all 13 projects from the second season of public television's smash hit, Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac. Woodworkers of all levels will love constructing both traditional...

Great Victorian classic offers full coverage of basic lathe techniques: history and development, special apparatus, softwood turning, hardwood turning, metal turning, more. Projects include billiard ball, egg cups, ash trays, vases, jardiniers, others. First inexpensive paperback reprint. "Required reading . . . very resourceful stuff."— Fine Woodworking. 771 figures. 22 plates.

Covering everything you need to get the most out of your tools, the Missing Shop Manual Series goes beyond basic safety and set up. From cutting dados and moldings to creating jigs, you'll discover the tips and techniques you need to maximize your table saw's performance.