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Woodworking Basics
Peter Korn's method helps new woodworkers learn the right techniques from the beginning. More experienced woodworkers can use it to master the classic furniture-making skills key to fine craftsmanship. Korn includes two attractive and useful projects -- a small bench and a side table with a door and drawer -- providing you the opportunity to practice skills and develop confidence with tools. This book provides a step-by-step introduction to all aspects of woodworking, including: Safe use of woodworking machinery Correct use of hand tools Milling a board four-square Cutting a mortise-and-tenon joint Cutting dovetails About the author Peter Korn is the Executive Director of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, which offers hands-on courses for novice, intermediate, and advanced woodworkers. He is also the author of Working With Wood (The Taunton Press, 1993), on which this revised edition is based, and The Woodworker's Guide to Hand Tools (The Taunton Press, 1998). He has more than 30 years of experience as a professional woodworker, and his award-winning furniture has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums. Softcover, 8-1/2 x 11 in., 208 pages, with color photos and drawings Published 2003, ISBN 1-56158-620-X, # 070675
Woodworking Techniques
Best methods for building furniture from Fine Woodworking
The best advice on the construction techniques needed to assemble, decorate and complete fine furniture are all in here.
Readers will be turning out their finest furniture ever with the help from this volume. They'll learn from the masters the construction techniques for assembling, decorating, and completing fine furniture. Plus, they'll discover the secrets to hinge and lock fitting, making and applying moldings, veneering, inlay and more!
Soft cover, 192 Pages, 238 Color Photos, 63 Drawings
Workshop Math
By: Robert Scharff
A major, indispensable reference work jam-packed with hard-to-find calculations, formulas and tables.
Unique, quick, accurate ways to compute from Popular Science. '' These formulas make smooth work of sticky calculations....Add this book to your workshop library.'' --Better Homes & Gardens.
456 pages, 379 b/w illus., 6 x 9.
