Green Woodworking Pattern Book

by Raymond Tabor

A book of over 300 patterns for traditional craft designs featuring projects ranging from fences, gates, garden furniture, through benches and stools to light pulls and door wedges - all with metric and imperial dimensions. Each item has annotated black and white line drawings and patterns, a brief description, historical details where relevant and information on the materials that should be used, where this is critical to the process. Both an historical record and a sourcebook for those looking to use their green woodworking skills to make traditional items of beauty, the book Special tools and cleaves, froes, rounders, shaves, horses and setting frames; Fencing and post and rail, pales, gate hurdles, wattles, cottage gates, field gates; Garden borders, pea-sticks, stakes, pergolas, trellises; Green wood in thatching wood, shingles, lathes and wattles; Wooden rakes, besoms, mallets, chisel handles, axes, billhooks, scythe handles, st

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Green Woodworking Pattern book is a book for those looking to use green (or non-cured) wood in their projects. Ray gives a great explanation at the beginning of the book and there are plenty of patterns to keep the green woodworker busy. Since I'm new to woodworking in general, I thought I probably shouldn't start here. He states in his introduction that this is not an intro book and not for beginning woodworkers. I did enjoy thumbing through and enjoyed the straightforwardness of his writing.

[Maedhros · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really excellent source of inspiration for the green wood worker. I can only speak as an absolute beginner, but it was a joy to flick through and absorb all the possibilities.

I have inadvertently trained myself to believe that reference books should include as many high definition photographs as possible (partly from reading older books with dim, grainy images like Haynes), but have rediscovered the joy of a simple, clear diagram.

I borrowed this from my local library but will purchase it as soon as possible because I expect to refer back to it a lot.