Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker

Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2005-09-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440316147

Your Blueprint for Making Good Cabinetry and Good Money If you've ever dreamed of making an honest living with your hands, then let Jim Tolpin show you how to become a professional cabinetmaker without losing your shirt - or your sanity. Thirty years ago Tolpin almost destroyed his custom cabinetmaking business because he committed every easy-to-make but hard-to-avoid mistake. He fixed his shop, his woodworking techniques and his business model so that instead of them making him crazy, they would make him a comfortable living. With the help of Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker you can follow the same successful and detailed path as you set up your own woodworking business (or make your existing business run more smoothly). Here's what you'll learn: • Be as good at business as you are at woodworking. Structure your business correctly. Keep records that allow you to set accurate prices. Find new business and keep the old. • Configure your shop, buy your tools and build your jigs so they earn their keep. • Blend high-tech European cabinetry techniques with American furniture styles to make cabinets that are quick to build, easy to customize and a snap to sell to people in your market.

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Measure Twice, Cut Once
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-06-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440317607

The First Book a Woodworker Needs! Professional woodworker Jim Tolpin offers solid instruction on the principles of measurement and proportion, walking you through every step of the woodworking process. From design and layout to developing a cutting list, his easy-to-follow style introduces a variety of tools (new and old) used to transfer measurements accurately to the wood. You'll learn the best cutting techniques, how to prevent mistakes before they happen, and for those unavoidable mistakes, you'll learn how to fix them so no one will know!

Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets

Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561587971

First published in 1994, this book quickly established itself as the standard shop reference on building kitchen cabinets. It covers all aspects of building a complete set of cabinets, from choosing a style for doors, to laying out the cabinets, to finishing and installing convenience hardware in the interiors.

Jim Tolpin's Woodworking Wit & Wisdom

Jim Tolpin's Woodworking Wit & Wisdom
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07-29
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781558707191

Did you know? The three most fundamental and essential tools can't be bought. Sanding is the slowest, most tedious, and most counterproductive way to prepare a surface for the clearest, richest finish. The absolute strongest bends are made without bending the wood. A scrap of tarpaper and a chunk of scrap wood comprise one of the most precise layout tools available to a woodworker. There is no such thing as a mistake in woodworking. Well, neither did I when I started working wood more than 30 years ago. But I sure wish I had learned these and a host of other essential woodworking concepts and techniques a lot sooner than I did - it would have saved me much anguish and frustration. However, I wasn't able to learn these fundamentals from books, shop classes, or TV woodworkers. Instead, I was fortunate enough to work with and learn from members of the last generation of traditionally apprenticed cabinetmakers and boat builders. The 60 essential lessons from the trade that I have recorded in this book are the first things I teach to my own kids in the hope that they will enjoy, as I have, a life of working wood with immeasurable pleasure, passion and purpose - and a minimum of wicked awful mistakes. Jim Tolpin

Building the Perfect Tool Chest

Building the Perfect Tool Chest
Author: Jim Stack
Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003-07-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781558706507

Step-by-step instructions for building 15 wooden tool chests and boxes.

The New Traditional Woodworker

The New Traditional Woodworker
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440304289

Working Wood, Not Machining It If you're more interested in working with wood rather than machining it, you will be relieved to learn that expensive powered machinery isn't required to build furniture. You can also forget the dust masks, face shields and hearing protection since many of the safety concerns related to woodworking—the use of power tools—are eliminated. In this book, you'll learn to set up a hand-tool woodworking shop, then discover the toolset, practice the skillset, and understand the mindset—effectively completing a comprehensive course in hand-tool woodworking.

Impractical Cabinetmaker

Impractical Cabinetmaker
Author: James Krenov
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780941936514

"Krenov invites the reader into his workshop where he shares his techniques and his uncompromising approach to craftsmanship, along with thoughts about his work and its place in the world. Photo sequences show how he composes a cabinet directly in the wood, without dimensioned drawings." -- Page 4 of cover.

To Make As Perfectly As Possible

To Make As Perfectly As Possible
Author: Roubo (M., André Jacob)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: Cabinetwork
ISBN: 9780985077754

The first English-language translation of the French 18th-century classic text on woodworking.

Hedge Fund Due Diligence

Hedge Fund Due Diligence
Author: Randy Shain
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118039246

Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you to recognize and avoid questionable hedge funds before its too late. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book offers an overview of due diligence into hedge fund management, how information on managers can be obtained, and why this information is essential to your investment endeavors.

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Measure Twice, Cut Once
Author: Norm Abram
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780316004947

Norm Abram is America's most famous master carpenter, appearing in The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House. In this book, Abram presents a series of sixty lessons for carpenters of all levels of expertise.