Wood working books
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Tauntons For Pros By Pros Building Stairs
Stairbuilding advice from the experts Stairway design and construction is a cornerstone of homebuilding. This is where carpenters show off their skill in combining safe, solid construction with suitable dimensions, excellent craftsmanship, and (more often than not) impressive measures of ingenuity.
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Tauntons For Pros by Pros Finish Carpentry
Tools, tips, and techniques for installing wainscots, casings, cornices, baseboards, and more Pleasing proportions, clean lines, flawless miters, and other well-crafted details are all measures of excellence for finish carpentry. Finish Carpentry takes you to the job site to see exactly how topnotch trim carpenters get interior detailing done right. A collection of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, this book covers the essentials of interior trim and built-in construction, including techniques for constructing hutches, baseboards, windows, crown molding, and paneling.
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Tauntons Home Storage Idea Book
Practical storage ideas for every room in the house Every house needs storage space that you can get to easily, that holds a wide variety of items, and that is as flexible as possible. Using a room-by-room guide to the house, Joanne Kellar Bouknight shows how to make the most of your storage space, focusing on four key categories of storage: active, seasonal, dormant, and displayed.
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The Homeowners Ultimate Tool Guide
Choosing the right tool for every home-improvement job If you have the proper tools, you have a much better chance of getting every home improvement job done right. With this essential guide, you’ll find out exactly what tool you need, how to ask for it at the hardware store, and what to do with it when you get home.
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The House to Ourselves
Reinventing home once the kids are grown When the kids leave the nest many couples are suddenly free of many of the constraints that tied them to a particular house or neighborhood. It's a time of new opportunities, an exciting time to rethink the very concept of home to suit changing needs and interests.
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The Kitchen Idea Book
Planning the kitchen of your new house or a remodel of your old kitchen?
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The TimberFrame Home
Design -- construction -- finishing Two decades ago, Tedd Benson helped kindle the dramatic rebirth of timber framing in this country. Today Benson and others are combining centuries-old timber-framing techniques with modern building materials to create houses that are as beautiful as they are durable and comfortable. In this book, Benson traces the history of the timber frame and tells how to create a new house in the tradition of old-world craftsmen.
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Trim Carpentry Techniques
Installing doors, windows, base, and crown Once a home's framing and drywall are done, it's time for the trimwork -- the door and window casings and baseboard and crown moldings that give each interior its distinctive character. In Trim Carpentry Techniques, trim carpenter Craig Savage gives practical advice for hanging doors, setting windows, buying, making and installing molding, selecting tools and finishing trim with paint or varnish.
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Trim Transformations
Do it Now / Do it Fast / Do it Right Molding doesn’t look like much when it’s stacked in the lumber racks at your home center. But it’s exciting to see how these contours can transform any room in your house by creating attractive details around windows, doors, passageways and elsewhere. Trim Transformations gives you all the inspiration and how-to information you need to master a wide range of molding projects -- wainscot paneling, ornate cornices, fluted casings, and mantelpiece shelves, just to name a few.
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Joinery Shaping amp Milling
Milling, shaping, and cutting joinery—the first three steps in building furniture—are detailed in this book.
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
There's no more thorough and readable guide to joinery than this new book from expert woodworker Gary Rogowski. Includes full-color, step-by-step photo essays to show you how to make practical woodworking joints.
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The Nuts amp Bolts of WoodWorking
Features 20 project ideas plus tips and technique ideas.
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Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques
Building 15 elegant boxes is easy with full-color photos, step-by-step instructions and detailed cutting lists.
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Boxes Carcasses and Drawers
Learn how to choose, make and use every kind of box joint, with emphasis on the dovetail.
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BoxMaking Basics
Easy to follow step by step instructions for more than 15 useful and attractive boxes.
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Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making
Create, shape and finish boxes with beautiful results Making small boxes is a favorite project for many woodworkers. While it may seem a simple process, there are many ways to build a box -- and in this comprehensive pictorial reference, veteran woodworker Doug Stowe covers all the techniques you will need to produce boxes you’ll be proud of.
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The Art of Making Elegant Jewelry Boxes
Design & Techniques
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Turning Boxes with Richard Raffan revised
Revised and updated full-length study of box-turning When it comes to turning, there is no greater master to learn from than Richard Raffan. Here in Turning Boxes, Raffan reveals the tricks you need to know when turning boxes, from the cutting and seasoning of the wood to finishing the piece.
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Classics From The New Yankee Workshop Companion to the Public Television Series
Join Norm in his workshop and learn how to construct beautiful, practical pieces, based on the classic designs of originals found in preservation societies and museum collections around the country.
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The New Yankee Workshop Companion to the Public Television Series
Here, he invites you into his "New Yankee Workshop". Demonstrating traditional craftsmanship, and using the speed and accuracy of power tools, Norm shows you how to construct simple, elegant furniture with ease and confidence.
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