Popular Woodworking Books imprint: 86 books
Popular Woodworking's Arts & Crafts Furniture
25 Designs For Every Room In Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Timeless Style and Simplicity
Simple and beautiful, Arts & Crafts furniture designs offer an excellent learning medium for furniture building. The Arts & Crafts style allows the craftsman to build a quality piece of furniture in a reasonable amount of time while providing a very successful...
Hand Tool Essentials
Refine Your Power Tool Projects with Hand Tool Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
Hand and Power Tools Work Best Together
In today's world of more-power-is-better, it's easy to overlook the value of hand tools. What most woodworker's don't realize is that combining both hand and power tool worlds is the best way to produce the highest quality woodworking.
In Hand Tool Essentials...
Simple & Stylish Woodworking
20 Projects for Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
One of the rewards of woodworking is getting to show off your work – either as part of your home decor or as handmade gifts for family and friends. This book provides 20 small-scale projects that can add a touch of style to any living space.
Practice a wide range of woodworking techniques!
Dovetails
Mortise...
The Woodworker's Bible
A Complete Guide to Woodworking
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Woodworking is Timeless
Things change, to be sure, and woodworking is no exception. New tools come on the market, older tools are upgraded and a number of new, finely made hand tools are now available. Regardless of the subtle changes, the basic principles used by woodworkers have remained...
Hybrid Woodworking
Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
A faster route to handcrafted results!
In the last few years, there's been a push to return to the roots of woodworking when every step was done with hand tools--from resawing lumber and planing it flat, to cutting joins and creating profiles. Working this way can produce beautiful results,...
by Editors of Popular Woodworking
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
From Dados to Dovetails - It's All Here!
From the lowly butt joint to the vaunted dovetail, joinery makes a woodworking project stronger, attractive and durable. Learn how to make the most common woodworking joints using hand tools and power tools, with tips to speed and improve your work. Also included...
by Editors of Popular Woodworking
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Updated and Expanded!
Beginning woodworkers are constantly stymied by the apparent need for thousands of pounds worth of tools to start their hobby. Once they have the tool, they face a learning curve to understand how to use the tool. The next problem is finding wood to build the projects. Not everyone...
The Homemade Workshop
Build Your Own Woodworking Machines and Jigs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Less cost! More features! Bragging rights!
Let's face it: Woodworking isn't cheap. Wood and materials alone can cost a small fortune. And well-designed commercial woodworking machines are often so expensive that they are beyond the reach of many home woodworkers. So what's a woodworker to do?...
The Practical Workshop
A Woodworker's Guide to Workbenches, Layout & Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Everything in its place....
Whether woodworking is your hobby or your profession, you'll get more enjoyment and satisfaction from the craft when you have a practical and functional workspace.
The Practical Workshop is your guide to setting up a sensible shop with an efficient workflow...
by Tom Begnal
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
Your personal research assistant
Anyone who works wood knows that the craft veers into math, biology and chemistry. You often have to compute some odd joint angle, calculate the amount of wood movement in a panel, choose appropriate metal hardware, or select the proper adhesive or finish for...
The Foundations of Better Woodworking
How to use your body, tools and materials to do your best work
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Woodworking with Mind, Body, and Senses
What's the secret to producing beautiful furniture that you and your family will treasure for generations? It starts with the fundamentals--those essential, yet often overlooked principles upon which all of your skills should be based.
In The Foundations...
David Thiel's Power Tool Maintenance
Peak Performance and Safety for Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
Get a Lifetime of Peak Performance from Your Woodworking Power Tools
Taking care of your tools is important. You want them to work and you want them to last. Both financially and emotionally, woodworkers make a significant investment in the tools of their trade, and proper tool maintenance is an essential...
The Weekend Woodworker's Project Collection
40 Projects for the Time-Challenged Craftsman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Pick a Project, Finish It in a Weekend
Do you have time only during weekends to immerse yourself in your woodworking? If so, then The Weekend Woodworker's Project Collection is for you. This book has 40 projects from which to choose and, depending on the level of your woodworking skills, any of them...
Contemporary Furniture
17 Projects You Can Build
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Matching furniture to your home decor can be a tall order. Classic furniture styles with intricate details can overpower a room or clash with other styles in the typical home. That's one of the reasons why contemporary furniture is so popular – and why woodworkers love to build it.
Contemporary...