Making and Mastering Wood Planes

Making and Mastering Wood Planes
Author: David Finck
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Planes (Hand tools)
ISBN: 9781402720222

Teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner.

Woodworking Mastery 2023

Woodworking Mastery 2023
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-16
Genre:
ISBN:

Are you ready to explore and thrive in the art of woodworking? In this engaging collection, the fanatical woodworker and author John Wilson guides you through a detailed journey to get you from scratch to crafting gorgeous wooden objects quicker than you can imagine. Keep reading... Let's face it! Woodwork can be a satisfying hobby if you get it off on the right foot. Woodworking is extremely relaxing and allows you to create some fascinating goods to keep for yourself or give to your loved ones, bearing in mind that DIY is always loved! The wooden handmade is also extremely successful as a product to sell, which is something to keep in mind if you're planning to make your passion pay off... Ok, Ok...nice words, but how can I approach this world from scratch and start creating my first projects without going crazy? You've come to the right place! This 3-in-1 guide will be the unique tool you need to learn woodworking from scratch. With a hands-on, pragmatic approach, John will provide you with all the tools, safeguards, and techniques you need to take to become a wood craftsman one step at a time. Learning to work with wood has never been easier, budget-friendly and above all surprisingly exciting. Here's what you get by reading this bundle guide: ★ PART 1: Woodworking for Beginners A comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the pastime that is becoming more and more popular All you need to know about the tools to use and setting up an inexpensive and effective workspace The finest crafting techniques to start with, plus dozens of smart ways to avoid the most common mistakes ★ PART 2: Woodworking Plans and Projects An easy-to-follow handbook on understanding wood and the ways of working it to create unique pieces How to wisely choose the type of wood and develop its full potential to craft enchanting objects that everyone will love Over 60 step-by-step projects to start the first steps in woodworking and decorate every room of your home ★ PART 3: Woodworking for Kids A lovely guide to passing on the art of woodworking to the youngest and teaching them the values of handwork Valuable tips to keep you safe while working and enjoy a safe and healthy work environment A rich collection of simple, child-friendly projects to create wooden toys and bring them immense satisfaction What are you waiting for? The art of woodworking is all you need to enjoy deep gratification in crafting things and decorating your spaces. This 3-in-1 book is all you need to do this in the simplest, safest, most thrifty, and most enjoyable way. Prepare to be enthralled, inspired and amused... Grab your copy now and start crafting gorgeous items today!

88 Areas of Mastery

88 Areas of Mastery
Author: Justin Eric Sutton
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2023-12-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1664278265

As a homeschooler’s handbook, this compendium of traditional academic courses, areas of interest, art forms and inspirational reflections is a window on the world that pays homage to the great diversity of human knowledge, experience and artistic expression. Beginning with the foundational principles of academic education, the reader will travel on a journey through the vast potential of mankind’s greatest occupations and ambitions. Each of these 88 areas will, in a moment, give the student a new focal point that is unique to human life. With each page you turn, this book will open a virtual doorway into the past, present and future of human knowledge, craftsmanship and raw talent to inspire students and teachers of all ages. In this book there is something for everyone... and maybe just a bit more.

Woodworker

Woodworker
Author: Sam Maloof
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 1988
Genre:
ISBN: 9784770014108

Ship of Magic

Ship of Magic
Author: Robin Hobb
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2003-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553900250

The first book in a seafaring fantasy trilogy that George R. R. Martin has described as “even better than the Farseer Trilogy—I didn’t think that was possible.” Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the Vivacia, the ship is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. Don’t miss the magic of the Liveship Traders Trilogy: SHIP OF MAGIC • MAD SHIP • SHIP OF DESTINY

Learning Through Woodwork

Learning Through Woodwork
Author: Pete Moorhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351628801

This essential guide provides clear and comprehensive support for those looking to introduce creative woodwork into early years settings. With theory, practical advice, stunning colour images and case studies, the book will inspire practitioners to embrace woodwork and encourage children’s independent creative learning. Focusing on the numerous benefits that working with wood offers young children, from boosting their self-esteem and problem-solving skills, to enhancing their communication and social development, the author draws on over 25 years of experience to discuss each and every aspect of establishing woodwork in the early years curriculum. Including practical information on materials and tools, staff training, and health and safety advice, this go-to guide provides a treasure trove of ideas to engage children at various stages of development, drawing the maximum benefit from working with wood and tools. Both inspiring and informative, Learning Through Woodwork will become an essential tool for early years practitioners and teachers wishing to explore and develop woodwork provision.

The Perfect Edge

The Perfect Edge
Author: Ron Hock
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-12-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440310211

Sharp Tools Work Better! If you've never experienced the pleasure of using a really sharp tool, you're missing one of the real pleasures of woodworking. In The Perfect Edge, the mystery of the elusive sharp edge is solved by long-time sharpening expert and tool maker Ron Hock. You'll soon find how easy and safe hand tools are to use. This book covers all the different sharpening methods so you can either improve your sharpening techniques using your existing set-up, or determine which one will best suit you needs and budget. Ron shows you the tricks and offers expert advice to sharpen all your woodworking tools, plus a few around-the-house tools that also deserve a perfect edge.

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1324090766

"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” —Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill? For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was drawing a museum-ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could anyone become so good at anything? There seemed to be a fundamental mystery to mastery. Was it possible to unravel it? In The Real Work—the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick—Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and building up—of identifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery almost always involves intentional imperfection—as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik’s simplest and most invigorating lesson, however, is that we are surrounded by mastery. Far from rare, mastery is commonplace, if we only know where to look: from the parent who can whip up a professional strudel to the social worker who—in one of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik has ever written—helps him master his own demons. Spirited and profound, The Real Work will help you understand how mastery can happen in your own life—and, significantly, why each of us relentlessly seeks to better ourselves in the first place.