The Complete Woodworker's Companion

The Complete Woodworker's Companion
Author: Roger Holmes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1996
Genre: Woodwork
ISBN: 9781850297802

A fully-illustrated book that demonstrates all the essential techniques of woodworking. Topics covered include plank constructions and projects to make open shelving and a chest of drawers. Guidance on tools and setting up a workshop is given for beginners and the experienced craftsperson.

Woodworking FAQ

Woodworking FAQ
Author: Spike Carlsen
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1603427295

Whether you’re a beginner building your first shelf or an experienced craftsman designing a new gazebo, Spike Carlson has the answers to all of your woodworking questions. You’ll find expert advice on setting up your work area, choosing appropriate tools, working with different types of wood, and building furniture, as well as tips on joinery techniques, custom finishes, and much more.

Gluing and Clamping

Gluing and Clamping
Author: Reader's Digest Editors
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN: 9780762102006

Discover how to create strong, permanent glue joints, by understanding the nature of adhesives, how they work, and how they're applied. Over 200 illustrations and photographs clearly show gluing techniques and the tools required.

Nick Engler's Woodworking Wisdom

Nick Engler's Woodworking Wisdom
Author: Nick Engler
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Cabinetwork
ISBN: 9780762101795

An indispensable, authoritative manual on everything you'll ever need to know about woodworking tools, techniques, design, and materials. It provides the amateur woodworker with the skills and tricks a master brings to a project.

Making Desks and Bookcases

Making Desks and Bookcases
Author: Nick Engler
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Bookcases
ISBN: 9780875965819

Introduces principles of desk and bookcase design, shows how to make drawers, pigeonholes, tambours, secret compartments, shelves and doors, and suggests a variety of projects.

The Woodwright's Companion

The Woodwright's Companion
Author: Roy Underhill
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0807869821

With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs complement the text.

Woodworking

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

This big book provides the expert guidance you need to become a master woodworker, with step-by-step instructions on tools and techniques, 41 complete home furnishing project plans, easy-to-follow diagrams and more than 1,000 lavish full-color illustrations.

Using the Drill Press

Using the Drill Press
Author: Nick Engler
Publisher: Rodale Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1995
Genre: Drill presses
ISBN: 9780875967219

Discusses selection and maintenance of drill presses; working with metal and plastics, making screw pockets, mortice-and-tenon joints, toy wheels, rosettes, and includes instructions for several projects.

Joining Wood

Joining Wood
Author: Reader's Digest Editors
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN: 9780762102013

Possibly the most important task and the most confusing in woodworking is joinery -- attaching one board to another. This book simplifies this complex subject, showing how master woodworkers produce strong, durable designs.