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Rogowski describes how to make every practical woodworking joint in a series of full-colour step-by-step photographic tutorials.
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Finishing features advanced techniques on controlling and adjusting color, disguising defects, and repairing finishes.
Shape is critical to the ultimate success or failure of a piece of furniture. In this work, Lonnie Bird guides the reader towards visualising, then drawing, a shape and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it.
The author of The Shaper Book, The Band Saw Book, and The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood, Lonnie Bird now brings us Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Using Woodworking Tools.
This new paperback expands on the techniques covered in Shaping Wood - a title in the enormously successful Complete Illustrated Guides series.
A guide to working with wood explains key skills and applications, offers a directory of hand and power tools, provides advice on workshop planning, and features 260 techniques and projects with step-by-step directions.
Expert woodworker Andy Rae brings his enthusiasm to this ultimate reference--a graphic, step-by-step presentation of basic furniture construction techniques. 847 color photos. 127 drawings.
The Joint Book features illustrated instructions for over 70 joints—providing easy-to-follow step-by-step directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise and tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, dowels and biscuits, and detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints. This book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills. This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5" × 8", the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access.The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book's useful tips. Within, you'll find: Step-by-step illustrated instructions for making all the basic joints in every joint family—mortise and tenon, dovetails, miters, and more—and their variations. Both hand tool methods and power tool techniques, plus a variety of easy-to-build jigs. How the nature of wood and its properties affect joinery, glue, and furniture design. The Joint Book is the ultimate workshop reference, providing woodworkers with the knowledge to choose the right joint for the job.
a clear and comprehensive guide to woodworking of all types, with expert advice and practical tips show how to develop your skills over 1600 colour photographs illustrate more than 200 easy-to-follow techniques and projects all shown in step by step.
The Encyclopedia of Joint Making has step-by-step illustrated instructions for making all of the basic joints in every joint family--mortise and tenon, dovetails, mitres, and more--plus popular joint variations. The Encyclopedia of Join Making has comprehensive coverage of the nature of wood material and how it affects joinery, glue, and furniture design for informed engineering of joints to last. Learn to use fasteners, bindings, adhesives and only wood elements when creating your wood joints. Have you started a woodworking project only to find yourself stuck in at a crossroads when it comes to making a wooden joint? Use this book to learn all the tricks necessary to choose and use layout tools for accurate works, plus practical marking methods for quick identification of project parts. Wooden joint making has never been so easy. Master the dovetail joint, mitre joint and so many more to ensure your furniture or wooden engineering project is completed to perfection. The Encyclopedia of Joint Making also includes both hand tool methods and power tool techniques, a variety of jigs and up-to-date coverage of contemporary alternatives. So, grab up your tools and get started on that woodworking project you always wanted to finish but never got around to.
