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The Log Cabin Book

A Complete Builder's Guide to Small Homes and Shelters

by Oliver Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Plans and directions for simple structures are easy enough for amateurs to follow; time and inclination are the only necessary elements. Each of the designs has been tested and allows numberless alterations...
Cover of Making Authentic Pennsylvania Dutch Furniture
by John G. Shea
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

Richly illustrated guide to the design, construction, painting, and decoration of a host of distinctive pieces — candle stands to four-posters. Includes designs for 24 popular hex signs and measured drawings for building 50 representative pieces: chairs, tables, desks, and many more. 250 illustrations. Bibliography.
Cover of The Essential Guide to Wood Finishing For Beginners
by Lance Fender
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

This book covers several topics including: I. WOOD FINISHING IN GENERAL II. PREPARATION OF NEW AND OLD SURFACES III. STAINS IN GENERAL IV. FACTORY PREPARED STAINS. V. WATER STAINS VI. STAIN  BRUSHING AND PROCEDURE VII. PREPARING WOOD TO TAKE STAIN EVENLY VIII. THE MIXING AND USE OF...
Cover of Mission Furniture
by H. H. Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Mission Furniture By H. H. Windsor
Cover of Birdhouses You Can Build in a Day
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004

Build a Fine Home for your Feathered Friends Birds of all feathers will be flocking to your backyard to live in the beautiful houses and dine in the unique feeders you can build in just a few short hours. This book is chock-full of more than 50 simple projects for bird, butterfly and bat houses designed...
Cover of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
by Robert Penn
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016

The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning,...
Cover of Woodlore For Young Sportsmen: Survival in the Wild and Hints on Hunting
by H. Mortimer Batten
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Originally published in 1922, this is a fascinating illustrated guide to various fieldsports and the woodcraft connected with them. Contents Include: Life Habits of British Animals Game Birds of Great Britain Vermin Destruction of Vermin Hints for the Gunner Angling and Habits of Fresh Water Fish...
Cover of How to Build Egyptian Boat Models

How to Build Egyptian Boat Models

Patterns and Instructions for Three Royal Vessels

by Jack Sintich
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

The ancient Egyptians were avid model makers. Many of their miniature masterpieces were replicas of boats, lovingly handcrafted from the finest woods and often decorated with rich materials such as ivory. Amazing examples of Egyptian maritime art and technology, many of these models remain intact...
Cover of Lofting a Boat

Lofting a Boat

A Step-by-Step Manual

by Roger Kopanycia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013

The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. Its...
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Fiberglass Boat Restoration

The Project Planning Guide

by Captain Wayne Canning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

How to select a boat, plan your project, finish the job, and actually head for the water. Over the past thirty to forty years boat builders, large and small, have produced tens of thousands of fiberglass boats. Many now sit abandoned, waiting for some tender care to get back on the water where they...
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Prepping: No1 Survival Guide For When SHTF

Prepping & Survival Series, #1

by Fredrick M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016

prepping: No1 Survival Guide For When SHTF Do you know how to survive when SHTF? In this book you're about discover how-to survive when SHTF What would happen if everything you are so used to were to be wiped out by a catastrophe? How would you survive? How would you source for food,...
Cover of Handicraft and Hobbies
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable. The information in this ebook on various aspects of handicraft, other hobbies and relelated subjects is organized into 17 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who like crafts,...
Cover of Woodworking Hobby to Business
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Do you enjoy woodworking, crafting your own pieces of furniture from wood? It's a very nice hobby that enable people to relax and destress. Many people take a step further. After making their masterpieces, they sell them, either online, or they open a shop! These people basically convert their...
Cover of The Work Of Craft
by Carla Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

The Work of Craft is a profound meditation on the relationship between craft and craftsman. Focusing in turn on pottery, weaving, and woodcarving, and grounding her insights in her own experiences as a potter, Carla Needleman shows that the basic material every craftsman works with is himself or herself....
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