Fine Woodworking Best Tips on Finishing, Sharpening, Gluing, Storage, and More


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This guide brings together nearly 350 shop-tested tips found in "Fine Woodworking" magazine--from storage solutions and surface preparation to milling lumber and power-tool strategies to insights into clamping, gluing, sharpening, finishing, and more.




The Complete Guide to Sharpening


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Lee, a well-known tool manufacturer, covers the practical and technical information to sharpen tools quickly, efficiently and safely. Descriptive photos, clear line drawings and step-by-step instructions show exactly how to improve the performance and safety of any cutting tool. 255 photos.




Great Book of Woodworking Tips


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Excellent for the expert or the novice, this is the world's biggest collection of reader-written, shop-tested, photo-illustrated woodworking tips and techniques, sure to inspire new ideas and creations.




New Complete Guide to Band Saws


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Learn to master the band saw, the workshop's most versatile tool. Includes buying advice, expert instruction, tips for making jigs, 500 illustrations, and more.




Foundations of Woodworking


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"Foundations of Woodworking gets to the very core of the craft of woodworking: laying out, cutting, and assembling joinery for furniture and other treasured wood objects. After an introductory chapter on the basic woodworking strategies that apply to anything you might build, Pekovich dives into a step-by-step, project-by-project description of the essential wood joints, from rabbets and dadoes through mortise and tenons to dovetails and miters. Master these joints--with a combination of hand tools and power tools--and the door is open to create just about any design you can think of"--




Shop Tips from America's Best Woodworkers


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Drawn from the wisdom of more than 200 of America’s best woodworkers, this compendium of shop-tested advice offers more than 600 woodworking tricks and techniques on everything from tuning machines and cutting joints to making stains and finishes. Including tips on how to tune a plane, cut dovetails, build a workbench, sharpen router bits, deal with dust, cover up joinery mistakes, and much more, there's never before been such an extensive collection of woodworking savvy.




Anarchist's Tool Chest


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Hybrid Woodworking


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A faster route to handcrafted results! In the last few years, there's been a push to return to the roots of woodworking when every step was done with hand tools--from resawing lumber and planing it flat, to cutting joins and creating profiles. Working this way can produce beautiful results, but is it the best method for woodworking in the 21st century? In Hybrid Woodworking, author and Internet woodworking star Marc Spagnuolo offers a more efficient approach that combines the strength of power-tool and hand-tool techniques. The end result: You save time and effort while producing furniture that still has that stunning handmade look. The Hybrid System Hybrid Woodworking will show you which machines and power tools are best for the grunt work of furniture making. It will explain which hand tools are essential for fine-tuning. And best of all, it will demonstrate techniques for working flawlessly and efficiently with every machine and tool in your shop. Making beautiful furniture can be immensely gratifying. By adopting the hybrid woodworking system you can get to that satisfying end result with less effort while enjoying every step along the way.




The Perfect Edge


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Sharp Tools Work Better! If you've never experienced the pleasure of using a really sharp tool, you're missing one of the real pleasures of woodworking. In The Perfect Edge, the mystery of the elusive sharp edge is solved by long-time sharpening expert and tool maker Ron Hock. You'll soon find how easy and safe hand tools are to use. This book covers all the different sharpening methods so you can either improve your sharpening techniques using your existing set-up, or determine which one will best suit you needs and budget. Ron shows you the tricks and offers expert advice to sharpen all your woodworking tools, plus a few around-the-house tools that also deserve a perfect edge.




Ultimate Shaker Workbench


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Inspired by the workbench at Hancock Shaker Village, this bench has a big, heavy base with drawers for all of your hand tools, and a beefy hard-maple top. There is a twin-screw vise on the front apron, with enough space between the screws to dovetail most furniture parts. A sliding board jack supports boards for edge planing, or for when you need to dovetail a part that's too big for the vise. The top can be drilled for holdfasts. SKILL LEVEL Intermediate FINISHED SIZE 84 in. wide by 26 in. deep by 34 in. tall PRINTED PLAN INCLUDES Extensive full-size and scale drawings Detailed cutlist Step-by-step companion article