Woodwork category: 409 books
by Scott D. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Here is a complete, down-to-the-last-detail guide for building attractive, sturdy, and genuinely inhabitable wooden birdhouses that will add a touch of natural beauty to garden, backyard, or anywhere else they are placed. Step-by-step instructions, clear diagrams, and many helpful illustrations and...
The Beginner's Handbook of Woodcarving
With Project Patterns for Line Carving, Relief Carving, Carving in the Round, and Bird Carving
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
"An excellent book for all carvers." — The Mallet"A woodcarver is one who can take a scrap of wood, breathe life into it with patient, skilled hands, and make it a warm object of lasting beauty. That is creativity," say award-winning craftsmen Beiderman and Johnston in this well-organized and highly...
Puzzle Boxes
Fun and Intriguing Bandsaw Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Unlocking the Secrets of the Puzzle Box
Have you ever thought inside the box? These band-sawn boxes could be the most intriguing and fun projects you've ever made.
Author Jeff Vollmer describes his boxes as key-and-slidecut a dovetail key, cut a slider piece, cut another key, cut another...
How to Build Your Own Bentwood Chair
A Guide to Building and Selling Rustic Furniture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
How to Build Your Own Bentwood Chair is an introductory guide for those who want to master the art of rustic furniture making and learn how to sell their creations, either as a hobby or full time business. This book covers environmentally safe ways to collect material, economical ways to collect tools,...
by Roland Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The bandsaw is a woodworking favorite and the workhorse of any wood shop. Craftsmen and women turn to this practical tool for a wide array of tasks -- cutting curves, ripping stock, making a variety of useful joints, using guides and templates, and transforming thick boards into veneer. Now woodworkers...
The Village Carpenter
The Classic Memoir of the Life of a Victorian Craftsman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
First published in 1937, this woodworking classic reveals a fascinating look into the social structure of a 19th-century English town and a carpenter's place in it. Encapsulating a time prior to power tools and mass production, when woodworkers made virtually everything, Walter Rose writes eloquently...
A Gathering of Spoons
The Design Gallery of the World's Most Stunning Wooden Art Spoons
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Featuring more than 200 hand-carved art spoons, this collection is the definitive photographic record of the world's most brilliant and beautiful examples of art spoon design. Spoons are not just utilitarian tools but are also revered as powerful ceremonial and symbolic objects Showing how spoonmaking...
Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta
A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Jimmy DiResta has made a name for himself with his inventiveness and workshop skills, creating dozens of projects for YouTube videos and television shows such as Hammered and Against the Grain on the DIY network. In Make: Workshop Mastery With Jimmy DiResta, Jimmy and co-author John Baichtal teach...
Modern Lumberjacking
Felling Trees, Using the Right Tools, and Observing Vital Safety Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Timber! Learn how to wield a chainsaw safely-and other lumberjacking skills.
While the lumberjack look may be trending among the fashion-forward crowd, lumberjacking is a useful real-world skill. An amateur with a chainsaw or an ax is dangerous to both people and property. Fortunately, experienced...
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters
The Education of a Craftsman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer/maker of fine furniture, takes a...
Handmade
Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shapes the builder into a more complete human being.
by Pablo Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
How To Build Bird Houses: A Guide For Beginners
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: How To Make The Best Bird House Chapter 2: Building The Best Bird House For Your Feathered Friends Chapter 3: Bird House Design With Pre-built Kits Chapter 4: Bird House Kit Taking...
by Nina MacLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
"No other book has made me want to re-read Ovid and retile my bathroom floor, nor given me the conviction that I can do both. I loved it." —Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men
A warm and inspiring book for anyone who has ever dreamed of changing tracks, Hammer Head is the...
by Carl Bridenbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
"A fascinating study not only of the work of the 18th-century American artisan but of his place in pre-Revolutionary society." — The New Yorker
In colonial America, craftsmen comprised the largest segment of the population, after farmers. They were cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers,...