Home Woodworker Series: Home Workshop Setup--The Complete Guide

Home Woodworker Series: Home Workshop Setup--The Complete Guide
Author: Jim Harrold
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764344183

Now that you've cleaned out the garage or finally freed up some space in the basement, it's time to start planning your ideal home workshop. Fortunately, this second installment of the Home Woodworker Series has everything you need to create the efficient, safe, clean, and comfortable workspace you've envisioned for working with wood. Start with the workshop planner and use its tool templates and gridded worksheet to lay out a customized floor plan based on your dedicated space. Then follow the guide to decide on other needs for your shop, including flooring options, lighting and heating, dust collection, outfitting with compressed air, and fire safety. The guide also walks you through a garage shop makeover, providing detailed plans for space-saving components like carts, cabinets, and racks. Armed with an action plan based on the guide, you'll have all you need for setting up the perfect home workshop. Add in tools, a bench, and storage, and you can take your passion to the next level, building projects for the home, family, or to sell.

Home Workshop Storage

Home Workshop Storage
Author: Jim Harrold
Publisher: Home Woodworker
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764345746

In a disorganized workshop, it's impossible to be efficient and maintain a high degree of functionality. If you find yourself losing valuable woodworking time searching for that special tool or piece of figured stock, then it may be time to get organized. Here is everything you need, from simple-to-build cabinets to racks and special storage boxes, all made from common home center materials and hardware. In this third installment in the Home Woodworker Series, you'll find several projects that can be completed in a single day or weekend. Most are cost-effective and designed to give the builder the freedom to choose his own materials and configurations. Featured units are based on the latest innovations in storage design, and maximize convenience while showcasing your tool collection as well. "Convenience-Plus Buying Guides" help you determine what you need to build each project.

The Woodworker's Studio Handbook

The Woodworker's Studio Handbook
Author: Jim Whitman
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1610581970

Celebrate the joys of working with wood in your own home studio or wood shop. The Woodworker’s Studio Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the artistry, design, and skills all woodworkers need to propel their hobby to the next level. Master woodworker Jim Whitman walks you through planning your work space, helps you select tools and the right wood for the right projects, and gets you comfortable with your tools so you feel at ease in the studio and ready to experiment…all with gentle instruction and reassuring humor. His 20 teaching projects make you feel like a seasoned craftsman from step one, regardless of your experience level. Learn about the importance of proper planning, measuring twice so you just have to cut once, and how to make the most of your wood. Above all, get ready to get your hands dirty: woodworking is about play just as much as precision! The Woodworker’s Studio Handbook: - Teaches joinery, lamination, routing, turning, carving, and finishing—core woodworking skills in full-color photographs, and complete with illustrated tool guides. - Illustrates the steps for 20 beautiful teaching projects for all skill levels, including a picture frame, a small cabinet, a carved pendant, turned bowls, and more. - Engages your creativity with reclaiming recycled wood, using green wood, or using a sketchbook and drafting tools to design original work.

Setting Up Shop

Setting Up Shop
Author: Sandor Nagyszalanczy
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561588381

To a woodworker, there is nothing more personal than the workshop. Creating your ideal sanctuary involves hundreds of practical decisions from where to locate the shop and which machines and tools to buy to where to put the lights and electrical outlets. With the expert advice of professional woodworker and author Sandor Nagyszalanczy, you'll make the right choices to fit your space and budget. Detailed illustrations and useful tips help you handle every job, from insulating walls and organizing storage to installing dust collection. 'Shop Profiles' give you a look inside the shops of well-known woodworkers, so you can see how they've tackled common shop problems. With all the ingenious solutions in Setting Up Shop, you'll never run out of ideas for improving an existing shop or planning the shop of your dreams.

How to Design and Build Your Ideal Woodshop

How to Design and Build Your Ideal Woodshop
Author: Bill Stankus
Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001-11-15
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781558705876

Turn your vision of the perfect woodshop into reality! Picture your ideal woodshop: tools neatly stored within the reach, plenty of space for lumber and materials, ample ventilation, lighting and electrical outlets. Everything you need, exactly the way you want it. Whether your woodshop is in the garage, basement, outbuilding, attic or even a closet, you can make the most of your space and bring your ideal woodshop to life. The invaluable advice, layouts and planning tips inside show you how. From space management and tool setup to noise reduction and dust control, Bill Stankus covers every subject in detail. He takes a logical approach to woodshop organization, showing you dozens of ways to achieve optimum efficiency for less time and money. In this completely revised edition, you'll learn how to: Plan your ideal woodshop--everything from lumber storage and ventilation to dust collection and lighting Avoid potential mistakes and injuries with safety-first checklists Make your woodshop environment comfortable and cozy Maximize space with ideas for building mobile storage units and workstations Create useful storage space and the perfect workbench Customize your woodshop, while considering layout and budget issues Seven examples of actual "ideal" workshops, with insights and ideas from the woodworkers who designed them, help illustrate every guideline and tip. You can begin transforming the space you've got into the shop you dream about--quickly, practically and effectively.

The Complete Manual of Woodworking

The Complete Manual of Woodworking
Author: Albert Jackson
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996-12-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0679766111

Designed to instruct and inspire every woodworker from the beginner to the most exacting expert, this authoritative guide is a must-have classic in the world of woodworking. With more than 1,800 drawings, diagrams and photos, The Complete Manual of Woodworking encompasses the whole art and craft of woodworking. Includes a discussion of all the principal hardwoods and softwoods, how to choose and use hand tools, detailed information on every woodworking technique--jointing, bonding, fastening, laminating, and much more.

Woodworking with Hand Tools

Woodworking with Hand Tools
Author: Editors of Fine Woodworking
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Woodwork
ISBN: 9781631869396

For woodworkers, hand tools put the emphasis on the process of woodworking rather than the result. Yet hand tools also are essential to the highest level of craftsmanship, bringing a refinement to work that machines alone cannot produce. Whether using hand tools alone as a source of pleasure, quality, or efficiency, or in combination with machines, woodworker can trust the information in Woodworking with Hand Tools, a collection of 35 articles from the experts at Fine Woodworking magazine. In Woodworking with Hand Tools, expert craftsmen explain how they choose, sharpen, and use every kind of hand tool. There's advice on tool maintenance, techniques for getting the most from the tools, and projects made using hand tools. With clear photographs, drawings, and step-by-step instructions, Woodworking with Hand Tools will be a useful and necessary resource for anyone who works wood.

Woodworking

Woodworking
Author: Tom Carpenter
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 1182
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607656515

• Two books in one—both a skills-building book and a woodworking project book. • All of the information and project plans that aspiring craftsmen need to develop a hobby that will last a lifetime. • Covers choosing wood, measuring, marking and layout, cutting, joinery, drilling, shaping, clamping, gluing, fastening, finishing and more. • 41 complete projects for building home furnishings. • More than 1000 photos, illustrations and diagrams.

Spalting 101

Spalting 101
Author: Dr. Seri C. Robinson
Publisher: Schiffer + ORM
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1507303351

A step-by-step guide to DIY spalting—harnessing fungi to create spectacular colors and lines in wood Leads beginners to success and offers spalting veterans fascinating info to improve their work Whether spalting wood in your yard, your bathroom, or a lab, save time and frustration