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Woodworking Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You need to Design, Build and Create
The latest addition to Black Dog's best-selling Wisdom and Know-How series, this complete, all-in-one, easy-to-follow resource, from the reliable experts at Taunton Press, covers everything you need to know about woodworking, from carving to building to finishes.
Woodworking Wisdom & Know-How is the essential go-to book for every woodworking project under the sun, from building kitchen cabinets to refinishing a deck. Published in the same oversized, comprehensive, winning format as the other books in Black Dog's Wisdom and Know-How series, this book is organized by topics such as Types of Wood, Building a Workshop, Working and Finishing Wood, Design and Styles, and Small and Large Projects. Each section is further broken down into chapters that cover specific skills, projects, and crafts for both the beginner and the advanced woodworker—Choosing Plywood, Cutting Dovetails, Building a Look-Inside Birdhouse, Relief Carving, Constructing a Classic Bed, Handheld Power Tools, Building a Cherry Chest of Drawers, Milling Lumber Four-Square, Fashioning a Shaker- Style Clock, and much more. Chapters feature step-by-step instructions, and an appendix of essential resources for supplies, tools, and materials is also included. The text, sourced from Taunton Press's vast cache of projects and woodworking advice is trusted, tried, and true.
Other titles in the Know-How Series, include:
Survival Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-753-4)
Country Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-239-5)
Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-800-5)
Craft Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-863-0)
Garden Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-837-1)
Woodworking Wisdom & Know-How is the essential go-to book for every woodworking project under the sun, from building kitchen cabinets to refinishing a deck. Published in the same oversized, comprehensive, winning format as the other books in Black Dog's Wisdom and Know-How series, this book is organized by topics such as Types of Wood, Building a Workshop, Working and Finishing Wood, Design and Styles, and Small and Large Projects. Each section is further broken down into chapters that cover specific skills, projects, and crafts for both the beginner and the advanced woodworker—Choosing Plywood, Cutting Dovetails, Building a Look-Inside Birdhouse, Relief Carving, Constructing a Classic Bed, Handheld Power Tools, Building a Cherry Chest of Drawers, Milling Lumber Four-Square, Fashioning a Shaker- Style Clock, and much more. Chapters feature step-by-step instructions, and an appendix of essential resources for supplies, tools, and materials is also included. The text, sourced from Taunton Press's vast cache of projects and woodworking advice is trusted, tried, and true.
Other titles in the Know-How Series, include:
Survival Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-753-4)
Country Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-239-5)
Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-800-5)
Craft Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-863-0)
Garden Wisdom & Know-How (978-1-57912-837-1)
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First published October 14, 2014
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August 31, 2020There's a ton of foreground overview regarding wood qualities by varieties, sensibilities of the grains, water content plus interactions, movement, lumber grades, regional likelihoods, stains or other specialty finishes, handling of sheets, precision cutting, drying wood, and countless techniques for cuts, joins, trimmings, and fittings are revealed in the context of fairly standardized projects. Decisions like planing or scraping, other milling discernments; and equipment needs by hand tool, power tool, and milder yet unequivocally frequent use tools for wood builds.
The charm of these 500+ broad pages in uniform newsprint is largely in these encyclopedic factors, albeiting appreciation and insight into the many built factors of a house and its furnishings. For $20, the adage "something for everyone" also rings true of the publication, since the majority of projects draw upon key shop items. A maker space requires certain hours of learning for habitually safe use of many power tools kept on hand, so none of that should be skipped-over by anyone, when it comes to engaging any article-formatted project like it stands on its own among the latter contents. Most projects are for those that are very well familiar with a category of woodwork, so as to know the handful of major equipment so often involved, and seeking insightful approaches and next-level considerations for different wood projects. For anyone else, the newsprint photos add a cloudy layer to the mere suggestions.
If you find your garage is filled with enough equipment to soundly learn a bit more of it, if you're willing to buy a pricey piece and some other pertinent hand tools or accessories thereof, intent on using the other nice pricey tools for something gorgeous, it's worthwhile to take your pick of features projects. Besides the equipment manuals and warnings, you'll probably want to research more visual guidance for selected projects or their close matches, as well as explicit instruction on any new equipment or new uses of owned equipment. More of the content herein has to do with filtering through your hand tools (for the hoarding garage) and more times to use them instead of power tools. The pointers still pair well with other project instructions, so abundant online nowadays and often super simplified there, because it's a lot of fine details like when and what sealants are good before what projects because it does so vary. Far beyond the satisfaction of this or that standing item, the details of how nice it gets and how it performs and wears are key items of the publication.
Also, if you encounter first or second hand furniture, cabinet facets, flooring, it's super to digest any of the beginning summaries (several times with comparison tables,) plus plenty of the techniques strewn among the many feature project stories. The abundance of information is enough to verify, but if you know oak or pine, cherry or maple are mostly your thing, it's then an incredibly particular depth with which you're approaching those now. Appreciating and knowing why and how, adds a lot of meaning to standard categories of environmental mastery.
The charm of these 500+ broad pages in uniform newsprint is largely in these encyclopedic factors, albeiting appreciation and insight into the many built factors of a house and its furnishings. For $20, the adage "something for everyone" also rings true of the publication, since the majority of projects draw upon key shop items. A maker space requires certain hours of learning for habitually safe use of many power tools kept on hand, so none of that should be skipped-over by anyone, when it comes to engaging any article-formatted project like it stands on its own among the latter contents. Most projects are for those that are very well familiar with a category of woodwork, so as to know the handful of major equipment so often involved, and seeking insightful approaches and next-level considerations for different wood projects. For anyone else, the newsprint photos add a cloudy layer to the mere suggestions.
If you find your garage is filled with enough equipment to soundly learn a bit more of it, if you're willing to buy a pricey piece and some other pertinent hand tools or accessories thereof, intent on using the other nice pricey tools for something gorgeous, it's worthwhile to take your pick of features projects. Besides the equipment manuals and warnings, you'll probably want to research more visual guidance for selected projects or their close matches, as well as explicit instruction on any new equipment or new uses of owned equipment. More of the content herein has to do with filtering through your hand tools (for the hoarding garage) and more times to use them instead of power tools. The pointers still pair well with other project instructions, so abundant online nowadays and often super simplified there, because it's a lot of fine details like when and what sealants are good before what projects because it does so vary. Far beyond the satisfaction of this or that standing item, the details of how nice it gets and how it performs and wears are key items of the publication.
Also, if you encounter first or second hand furniture, cabinet facets, flooring, it's super to digest any of the beginning summaries (several times with comparison tables,) plus plenty of the techniques strewn among the many feature project stories. The abundance of information is enough to verify, but if you know oak or pine, cherry or maple are mostly your thing, it's then an incredibly particular depth with which you're approaching those now. Appreciating and knowing why and how, adds a lot of meaning to standard categories of environmental mastery.
January 12, 2024
In all honesty I did not read every page of this mammoth book, but read several sections.
It is almost 300 pages of Kindle content.
IT did re ignite a love of woodworking in me, and challenge me to get out to the garage and finish a few projects and get ready to start a couple of others.
This book is everything you ever need to know to do woodworking, and I have been doing woodworking for 45 plus years. IF you want one big, easy to read, exhaustive reference work, this is your book.
I have built a project or two depicted, including the bookshelf by Steve Latta that graces the upstairs hallway in my home.
Strongly recommended for anyone who wants to be a better woodworker.
In the name of honesty, in terms of this years reading goals, I think I will probably hit 100 books by reading 52 Novels or serious nonfiction books, and 48 books like this that are reference books on things such as Hiking, Stereo Equipment, woodworking, wheel throw pottery, travel, or other things I enjoy.
Happy reading, and I can't say enough good about this book.
It is almost 300 pages of Kindle content.
IT did re ignite a love of woodworking in me, and challenge me to get out to the garage and finish a few projects and get ready to start a couple of others.
This book is everything you ever need to know to do woodworking, and I have been doing woodworking for 45 plus years. IF you want one big, easy to read, exhaustive reference work, this is your book.
I have built a project or two depicted, including the bookshelf by Steve Latta that graces the upstairs hallway in my home.
Strongly recommended for anyone who wants to be a better woodworker.
In the name of honesty, in terms of this years reading goals, I think I will probably hit 100 books by reading 52 Novels or serious nonfiction books, and 48 books like this that are reference books on things such as Hiking, Stereo Equipment, woodworking, wheel throw pottery, travel, or other things I enjoy.
Happy reading, and I can't say enough good about this book.
May 25, 2018
A compilation from other sources that is very poorly edited.
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