Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking


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Individual volumes have distinctive subtitles.




Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking


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Learn from Tage Frid, the dean of American woodworking teachers. Make and use joints from the basic tongue and groove to multiple-spline miters and dovetails.




Encyclopedia of Furniture Making


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An illustrated reference guide to furniture making, including material characteristics and properties, necessary equipment, techniques, and tips on component construction, veneering, marquetry and inlaying.




Woodworking Basics


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Presents an introduction to woodworking, covering wood, joinery, woodworking machines, and hand tools, and including illustrated, step-by-step instructions for five projects.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Woodworking


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All you need to know to set up shop and learn the art of woodworking.




Making and Mastering Wood Planes


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Teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner.







A Cabinetmaker's Notebook


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Cabinetmaking at the highest level is an art, a discipline, a philosophy--even a way of life--in addition to being a useful craft. In this book one of the greatest living cabinetmakers reflects on the deeper meanings of his craft and explains for less accomplished workers how the right attitudes toward materials, tools, and time can increase the joys of this complex activity. Craftspeople in every medium will be inspired by this account of getting started and developing habits that lessen the difficulties of a complex craft.




Solid-wood Cabinet Construction


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You don't have to invest a fortune in gadgetry to make accurate measurements, and you needn't have advanced mathematical training to build complex houses. Author John Carroll provides dozens of beautifully simple techniques for highly accurate measuring, marking, and layout using a number of basic tools. Good habits of measuring and marking not only ensure high quality but also save materials and money and increase productivity. Measuring, Marking & Layout will help you produce clean, professional-looking work and shows you how to do the job right the first time.




Tea Ceremony Manual


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Tea Ceremony Manual is a complete, lavishly-illustrated guide to Tom Sachs' culture of tea, featuring the artist's step-by-step instructions on how to perform a tea ceremony. Inspired by niche manuals such as The Tea Ceremony, by Seno Tanaka, The Fundamentals of Judo, by Yves Klein, and Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, by Tage Frid, the book features a statement by the artist, an essay and haiku by Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart, a foreword by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon, and substantial back-matter, including a visual index of all of Sachs' tea-related works and an array of contextualizing appendices. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, on view at The Noguchi Museum thru July 24, 2016 and traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas thru Jan 2018.