Woodworking Books

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking
by Tage Frid
Two Volumes in One, unabridged:
Book 1: Joinery
Book 2: Shaping, Veneering, Finishing
416 pages, many b/w photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305160
€ 29.95

Tage Frid is the dean of American woodworking teachers. In these two classic volumes, now combined into one convenient paperback, Frid has packed more than 50 years of practical woodworking experience.

Frid demonstrates his techniques step by step, with instructions keyed to sharp black-and-white photographs. In the first part, Frid shows you how to make a wide variety of joints with hand tools and machines, and how to select the right joinery for each application. In the second part, Frid continues the documentation of essential woodworking techniques: bending, shaping, carving, turning, veneering, inlaying, and finishing.

David Charlesworth's Furniture-Making Techniques Vol 1
by David Charlesworth
A Guide to Hand Tools and Methods
The best from Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine
120 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305162
€ 17.95

In this indispensable guide to the basic principles of furniture making David Charlesworth reinforces his status as a dedicated commentator and teacher of the craft. This book is an ideal workshop accessory, with easy to follow instruction on the use of hand tools and how to build confidence and creativity with new, or maybe just rusty, techniques. Designed to encourage the complete beginner and challenge the student or keen amateur, all woodworkers will glean inspiration from the sound knowledge and advice within these pages. The book is suitable for all levels and abilities and includes tips & techniques on how to get the best from hand tools.

David Charlesworth's Furniture-Making Techniques Vol 2
by David Charlesworth
135 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305163
€ 17.95

A second volume of David's highly regarded work. With 180 full colour photographs of the finished products, the approach this book takes to the art of furniture making is a combination of analytical, practical and innovative views, where woodworkersof all levels are challenged alike.

Box-Making
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making
Doug Stowe
151 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305166
€ 24.95

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 youll be proud of.

You will learn about making boxes by using traditional carcase joinery or by shaping on the bandsaw or lathe. Stowe also covers special boxmaking techniques associated with making lids and bases, attaching them to the box, and partitioning boxes to hold small objects like jewelry. Additionally, there are a host of techniques for creating special effects that decorate a box, turning the small, useful object into a jewel itself.

This book covers all these methods in a highly visual format that has become the hallmark of the Complete Illustrated Guide series: Everything is covered in over 500 step-by-step photos accompanied with straightforward text.

Box-Making Projects for the Scroll Saw
Gary McKay
133 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305156
€ 17.95

The wooden box is a classic and popular wooden project; it is fun to make and useful to have. However, crafting a box can often involve several different tools. In this book, designer and box maker Gary Mckay will introduce you to his simple techniques for making a varitety of elegant and functional boxes.

Finishing
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Finishing
Jeff Jewitt
294 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, hardback
Nr. 305167
€ 35.00

The art of finishing is best learned with complete, visual step-by-step instructions - and that is exactly what Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Finishing offers you. With the help of detailed process photography, youll be able to demystify the process of finishing - and get the look you want for all your woodwork.

Jeff Jewitt, a world-renowned wood finisher, provides an in-depth coverage of tools and materials and covers all of the key processes. Youll learn about everything from surface preparation to color matching. Especially valuable is the coverage of advanced and special techniques, not usually covered in general finishing books, including detailed information on adjusting color, disguising defects, toning, glazing, spray finishing and rubbing out a finish. This comprehensive finishing reference is the most complete and detailed book on the subject - and you will find it incredibly valuable no matter what your skill level.

The Tub Boats of Sado Island
Douglas Brooks
Bilingual: English and Japanese
184 pages, 16 color pages, 84 b/w photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305590
€ 30.00

Douglas Brooks is a boat builder who specializes in replicas of traditional American and Japanese boats. He works for museums and municipalities, developing projects that demonstrate boat building to the public.

He has been researching traditional Japanese boat building since 1990, focusing on the techniques and design secrets of the craft. These techniques have traditionally been passed from master to apprentice with almost no written records.

In 1996 Brooks apprenticed with the last man still building the tarai bune (tub boat) of Sado Island, Niigata-ken. In 2000 he built a beka bune (seaweed gathering boat) in Urayasu, Chiba-ken.

In 2002-2003 Brooks is building three traditional boats in Japan, two in Tokyo and one in Aomori, as part of a research grant funded by the Freeman Foundation. He has published the results of his research in the United States and Japan. More ...

Beginning Woodcarving
Best of Woodcarving Magazine
206 pages, many color and b/w photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305170
€ 19.95

Woodcarving magazine selects the best for its pages on woodcarving in this book. Whether you hope to tackle lettering, paneling, portraits, bodywork, bird carving, or architectural work, it’s explained here in richly illustrated detail. A variety of the most admired authors guide you progressively, until you have a firm understanding of the fundamental principles of turning a block of wood into an attractive piece of craftsmanship.

Small Woodworking Shop
The New Best of Fine Woodworking
154 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305175
€ 17.95

A well-designed, well-built workshop can do more for your woodworking than a new tool. A good shop is a place where you want to be -- a safe, well-lit space where work flows efficiently from machine to bench to finishing area. The articles included in this book offer ideas and solutions on everything from designing your floor plan for workflow to the nitty-gritty of picking the right tools.

Themes:
- Locating and organizing your shop
- Good floor plans
- Essential tools
- Good choices for lighting and heating
- Dust control and collection
- Shop safety
- Benches, vises, aprons and pegboards

Fine Woodworking on Bending Wood
122 pages, many b/w photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305184
€ 9.95

Wood is usually considered a stiff, unyielding material, but over the centuries, woodworkers have found some ingenious ways to bend wood to make what they wanted - items as diverse as a delicate violin, a flexible pair of skis, and a graceful, comfortable chair.

In this collection of 35 articles from Fine Woodworking magazine's classic black-and-white era, craftsmen explain basic wood-bending methods and how they've put them to use in their shops. You'll also learn how you can make the tools and acquire the skills you need for successful bending in your own projects.

Designing Furniture
The New Best of Fine Woodworking
154 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305174
€ 17.95

Designing a piece of furniture should be fun. Yet woodworkers who think nothing of building a complicated jig or mastering a difficult finish feel lost when it comes to designing a piece of furniture. The articles in this book will help you understand the basics of designing for both form and function and learn approaches to planning your designs for successful construction.

In this book you’ll discover:
- Design inspiration - from Shaker to Arts & Crafts
- The four objectives of furniture design
- Drafting basics and how to create working drawings
- How to choose the best construction methods for your designs
- Models that help projects succeed
- Tips for designing graduated drawers, legs and aprons, doors
- Design strategies for coffee tables, sideboards, chests of drawers

New Wood Puzzle Designs
by James W. Follette
96 pages, many color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305176
€ 21.95

Jim Follette offers a range of 12 puzzles of four different basic types. There is expert advice on the woods, glues and finishes that will give the best results. These puzzles are beautiful and intriguing objects.

Your puzzle will work with accuracy and precision after the author shows you how to make perfectly square sticks, round wood disks, and rings. You'll find that these newly developed skills will enhance all of your woodworking projects.

Turning
Taunton’s Complete Illustrated Guide to Turning
by Richard Raffan
246 pages, lots of color photographs and explanatory drawings, hardback
Nr. 305165
€ 35.00

This step-by-step pictorial reference covers all of the essential techniques for turning wood. Organized for quick access, this book makes it easy to find exactly the technique you are looking for. Over 850 photos and drawings illustrate how to hold, sharpen, and use turning tools, use specialized chucks, deep hollow elegant vessels, finish at the lathe, and much more.

Turning Bowls
by Richard Raffan
186 pages, lots of color photographs and explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305180
€ 24.95

The world’s pre-eminent woodturning teacher provides everything you need to know to turn bowls. Richard Raffan draws upon his 30 plus years of experience to lead you through the key elements -- from planning to completion.

With the help of detailed text and step-by-step photos, Raffan covers wood and tool selection, design advice, surface embellishment and finishing techniques. For the more experienced turners, there are chapters on advanced techniques, decoration, and form and balance. You’ll also find extensive appendices, troubleshooting charts and advice on selling bowls. Perhaps best of all, Raffan’s contagious respect for the craft comes through on each page, and it will stir you to do your best work.

Turning Bowls gives you:
- thorough coverage of tools, wood selection and design
- advice on how to avoid and solve common turning problems
- information that ranges from the basic to the advanced
- expert-level instruction in an easy-to-understand format

Turning Pens and Pencils
by Kip Christensen and Rex Burningham
165 pages, lots of color photographs, softback
Nr. 305181
€ 17.95

Here is the definitive guide to turning writing instruments. The authors leave no aspect of this very satisfactory craft untouched in their bid of produce the best book on the subject for both seasoned pen makers and anyone new to the absorbing craft.

Through clear text and superb photography they describe the various ways of approaching the task, allowing you to select the best procedure for the equipment available and work according to your desired scale of production.

The projects were selected to show a wide variety of techniques used in making various types of writing instruments.

Wonders in Wood
by Edwin M. Wyatt
76 pages, many explanatory drawings, softback
Nr. 305182
€ 8.95

This is the sequel to the author's hugely popular "Puzzles in Wood" which was reprinted by popular demand and which has been selling for over fifty years.

In this collection some 46 puzzles are just waitung to be made up and solved. They range from the simple to quite challenging pieces for those craftsmen who like to take pride in having their work fit snugly and accurately.

Harvesting Urban Timber
by Sam Sherrill
224 pages, colour photographs, softback
Nr. 305171
€ 25.95

Every year in our cities and towns, thousands of trees and the lumber they contain are thrown away in landfills, buried on construction sites, ground up for mulch, or cut for firewood.

At the same time, we pay dearly at lumber yards and home centers for many of the hardwoods and softwoods we continue to burn, bury, grind, and throw away. The purpose of this book is to encourage you to make better use of urban timber by saving the best logs for lumber.

The book is full of photographs and expert reviewed, computer-generated illustrations to help make clear the more complicated aspects of urban logging and milling.

Making Working Wooden Locks
by Tim Detweiler
96 pages, many colour photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305173
€ 21.95

Here is a book for all woodworkers who enjoy making moving, mechanically-oriented objects, such as puzzles, games, gears, motors, etc. It is the novelty of a wooden lock that makes it so irresistible.

All projects include step-by-step instructions, color photos, and measured drawings. Complete plans for five working, entirely wooden, locks.

Making Shoji
by Toshio Odate
119 pages, many b/w photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305172
€ 21.95

The construction of Shoji - Japanese sliding doors and screens - requires great skill and attention to detail, however the task is within the reach of amateur woodworkers, and the results will add grace and serenity to any interior.

With Toshio Odate's help, woodworkers can tackle this traditional craft with confidence. Odate, who served a craftsman's apprenticeship during his yoouth, unites traditional insight and technical mastery in a way that anyone can understand. Step-by-step instructions, illustrated by photos taken at every stage of the work, give detailed information on how to prepare materials, lay out joinst, cut the parts, and assemble two Shoji projects: the common sliding screen with hipborard, plus an intricate transom featuring the beautiful asanoha pattern.

Building on this foundation, Odate gives construction details and notes on eight Shoji variations. Technical chapters cover the Japanese mortise-and-tenon joint, shoji paper, and homemade rice glue.

Seeking for Shoji paper?

The Complete Guide to Sharpening
by Leonard Lee
245 pages, many explanatory b/w photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305179
€ 22.95

You know how frustrating it is to work wood with tools that are dull. All that is over. Tool expert Leonard Lee has consolidated a lifetime of study of sharpening methods, techniques, and devices into the most practical reference on the subject.

You'll discover the most effective ways to sharpen your tools -- from chisels to drill bits. You'll get better edges than on most razor blades, and you'll learn how to shape them to cut better and stay sharp longer. In fact, Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment will allow you to sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter.

Sharpening with Waterstones
A perfect edge in 60 seconds
by Ian Kirby
112 pages, many explanatory b/w photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305187
€ 14.95

Kirby, a master woodworker educated in England, in this small book shows the reader how to put a perfect edge on chisels, plane irons, and knives. The author advocates using Japanese waterstones in conjunction with the ordinary electric grinder as the best route to a sharp edge, yet he also shows how to get excellent results from traditional oil stones. Kirby also includes a discussion of diamond hones.

The Toolbox Book
by Jim Tolpin
200 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305055
€ 22.95

Every craftsman needs to store his tools properly. Learn to plan and design tool boxes.

If you value your tools and want to find the best way to store or transport them, you'll find essential information in this fully illustrated guide. Suitable for anyone else working with wood.

Bird Boxes and Feeders for the Garden
by Dave Mackenzie
168 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and construction drawings, softback
Nr. 305058
€ 23.90

Here are 21 projects showing how to make practical bird boxes and feeders using inexpensive and readily available timber. Each of these projects will actively encourage birds and wildlife to visit your garden. Excellent results are achieved quite simply, with no need for expensive equipment or specialized tools, and every project is designed with the needs of the animal foremost.

Building a Shed
by Joseph Truini
202 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and construction drawings, softback
Nr. 305190
€ 19.95

Once you've enjoyed the extra space a shed provides, you'll wondering how you managed without this backyard addition. Wether your shed needs to store gardening tools, serve as a workshop, or provide a special playspace for kids, Joe Truini will show you how to design the right structure and build it from ground up.

Making Screw Threads in Wood
by Fred Holder
132 pages, many explanatory colour photographs, softback
Nr. 305157
€ 19.90

A good understanding of screw threads, and the techniques used to cut them in wood, you can apply them to any project you wish. Covering screw threads on the lathe using jigs and hand-held chasers, he also addresses the use of taps and screw boxes to cut threads by hand. Specific projects - including a wooden bolt, threaded spindle, screw-top box and walking stick join - illustrate alternative ways of using threads in wood.

Turned-Bowl Design
by Richard Raffan
169 pages, many explanatory b/w and colour photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305151
€ 25.90

This is the book woodturners have been waiting for - a provocative, in-depth examination of bowl design by a master turner.

Everyone loves a spectacular bowl turned from beautiful colored, richly figured wood. But the sad truth is that color and figure always fade. In this book, Richard Raffan teaches you design - how to create turned shapes that will continue to delight your eye and hand long after the wood's color and figure have faded away.

The Art of Segmented Woodturning
by Malcolm Tibbets
184 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305177
€ 25.95

The definitive text on segmented turning. Tibbetts discusses various types of construction, staved, and ring design as well as the difference between inlaid and segmented lamination. Step-by-step instructions give detailed explanations on how to proceed with this highly visual form of turning.

Includes what woods to use, glue types, creating a blueprint for your work, building a vessel, shortcuts, building a stave constructed vessel, and building an Indian blanket design ring.

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
by Gary Rogowski
390 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and drawings, hardback
Nr. 305164
€ 35.00

We categorize our furniture making like we do so many of our other human endeavors. There are only so many ways to make a box after all. But we have in our imaginative way, made the most of all the possibilities.

The fact is, there are only two basic joinery systems. Either we use box construction, joining wide panels of solid-wood or plywood materials together, to make our carcases, cabinets, or jewelry boxes. Or we use frame construction to build our chairs, tables, beds, and cabinets. These frames use smaller members fastened together with or without a panel captured within them.

From these two categories spring a wealth of joinery options. A project as simple as a box has a dozen ways to solve the joinery question, and many joints can be used interchangeably. So how do you choose which joint to use?

The function of the piece is the starting point for your joinery choices. Are you building a cabinet to hold the crown jewels or a recipe box destined to be stained with the labors of the kitchen?

Dovetail joints are the best way to join large panels, but a window box doesn't need dovetails to be serviceable.

Next, consider economy -- the need for efficiency and speed in your building. What's your time frame? If it's a weekend project, your choice of a joint will make a big difference. Hand chopping dozens of mortises is certainly not time-efficient, but it may be the perfect way to enjoy working at a leisurely pace in a harried world.

The skill you bring to a project also determines which joint you choose, but learning a new method of joinery is a wonderful challenge. We tend to find our methods and stick to them; but remember that each time you cut a joint, you get a little better at doing it.

One method may work better one day and another method the next. Please also remember that this book is only a guide. No one process, jig, machine, or book can confer mastery. The way to mastering joinery is to make joints. It's the time you spend learning, making mistakes, backing up, and starting all over again. The time you spend in the shop is the real pay-off; the furniture you build a wonderful bonus.

Woodworking Basics
by Peter Korn
186 pages, many explanatory colour photographs, sketches, softback
Nr. 305062
€ 19.95

Woodworking Basics presents an approach to learning woodworking that has proven successful for hundreds of people who have taken the author's introductory course over the past 20 years. Peter Korn's method helps new woodworkers learn the right techniques from the beginning. More experienced woodworkers can use it to master the classic furniture-making skills key to fine craftsmanship. Korn includes two attractive and useful projects -- a small bench and a side table with a door and drawer -- providing you the opportunity to practice skills and develop confidence with tools. This book provides a step-by-step introduction to all aspects of woodworking.

Making Toys that Teach
by Les Neufeld
135 pages, many explanatory colour photographs, scetches, softback
Nr. 305071
€ 19.95

The difference between a good toy and a great one is its ability to entertain -- and instruct -- a child at the same time. In Making Toys that Teach, Les Neufeld combines his skills as an educator and woodworker to show you which toys are most effective for early childhood education and gives you all the information you need to build the toys yourself.

There are nine fun projects -- from Pattern Blocks and Dominoes to a Puzzle Train -- that will get little ones learning without them even realizing it. Kids will learn basic motor skills, color matching, organizing by size and shape and problem solving. Step-by-step instructions and detailed photos make it easy for you build the toys.

Making Heirloom Toys
by Jim Mackowiki
150 pages, many explanatory b/w and colour photographs, scetches, softback
Nr. 305159
€ 19.95

Professional designer and woodworker Jim Makowicki's 22-project collection reflects uncanny historical detail and technical accuracy. Each ingeniously designed toy is a potential family heirloom, as a plaything or for display.

Makowicki's sophisticated toy designs are extraordinary. Some projects have over 50 pieces; one, a handsome ferry boat complete with vintage vehicles has over 100. There are simpler toys, too, all suited to the average woodworker's skills.

Projects are meticulously researched and include scale drawings that can be copier-enlarged into full-size working plans. Readers get step-by-step details, including safety, design and finishing information. Projects are mostly transportation toys: cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, boats and more.

Making Wood Trucks & Construction Vehicles
by Reg Martin
176 pages, many explanatory b/w and colour photographs, scetches, softback
Nr. 305158
€ 14.95

Toys of yesteryear were often finely crafted from wood rather than mass-produced in a factory. Made with pride and care, each one was unique and charming and delighted children. Each project in this book has complete building instructions and detailed drawings.

Working with Handplanes
by Fine Woodworking magazine
A book of THE NEW BEST OF FINE WOODWORKING series
153 pages, many explanatory colour photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 305192
€ 17.95

With a sharp, well-tuned handplane you can quickly adjust the fit of parts or joints, flatten a panel or produce a glass-smooth surface for finishing. But learning to use this classic handtool can be something of a challenge. This book offers advice on how to choose handplanes and tune and sharpen them for top performance. There is also in-depth information on specialty planes and spokeshaves.

The Shaker Legacy - Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style
by Christian Becksvoort
231 pages, many colour photographs, softback
Nr. 305057
€ 24.95

This book presents the unique perspective of a leading expert in Shaker furniture design, restoration, and reproduction. Based on extensive research and personal experience with the last working Shaker community, Chris Becksvoort reveals the roots of Shaker design. He explains how Shaker gelief inspired the design principles exemplified in Shaker furniture and how to recognice the careful craftsmanship and signature details that define Shaker style.

In the Shaker Style - Building Furniture Inspired by the Shaker Tradition
from the Editors of Fine Woodworking
153 pages, with a collection of photos and drawings, softback
Nr. 305068
€ 24.95

Rich with history, Shaker furniture has long been admired for its beautiful, yet simple, craftmanship. This book presents the ideas and techniques of more than 15 contemporary artisans. Inside you'll find instructions for over 10 projects, from Shaker chairs to bookcases. Detailed illustrations and potographs accompany each project. In addition, you'll see how distinctive Shaker details can be adapted for use in today's furniture.

Traditional Windsor Chair Making
with Jim Rendi
112 pages, many explanatory photographs, softback
Nr. 305026
€ 33.00

Basic, step-by-step instructions for building a comb back Windsor chair, using traditional methods. With the simplest of hand tools and a lathe, even the amateur can produce a beautiful chair. Each step is illustrated and the patterns for the parts are given, among with measured drawings.

Designing and Building Chairs
by Fine Woodworking magazine
A book of THE NEW BEST OF FINE WOODWORKING series
155 pages, many explanatory photographs, softback
Nr. 305193
€ 17.95

Chairs are ubiquitous, found in every home, office, and building. Almost all are commercially made since many woodworkers shy away from making chairs, or even stools. Granted, there are not too many square parts to most chairs, and compound angles are somewhat intimidating.

But the articles in this book, reprinted from Fine Woodworking magazine, should help dispel any questions or fears you may have about chair building. Not only can you build them, you can make them better than the average commercially made models

Turning Green Wood
by Michael O'Donnell
135 pages, many explanatory photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 306354
€ 17.95

An inspiring and thought-provoking guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood. Using 'green' timber allows you to choose and cut your own wood. Michael O'Donnell, one of the foremost exponents of the technique, explains how to harvest and store timber, and how to make the best use of the grain pattern and other propertiees.

Green Woodwork
by Mike Abbott
207 pages, many explanatory photographs and drawings, softback
Nr. 306226
€ 25.00

Green woodwork is healthy, creative, inexpensive and simple to learn. The beauty of working green - or unseasoned - wood is that using traditional skills and a few simple tools you can make anything from a tent peg to a spoon to a Windsor chair. You can also make your own pole lathe and avoid the cost, noise and danger of powered machinery! Set up your workshop in the attic, the garden, or even the woods, and find out how to really work with wood, not against it.

Japanese Woodworking Tools
Toshio Odate
Softback
Order nr. 305106
€ 37.20

Many woodworkers have come to realise in recent years that the Japanese craftsman doesn't simply use tools, he has a relationship with them. Master craftsman Toshio Odate has written this unique guide to enable Western craftsmen to understand the ways in which Japanese tools are used and cared for. Saws, chisels, planes, plane irons, waterstones and many more Japanese tools are now used by Western craftsmen and this book will help you get the best from all of them as well as putting them into historical context. Rounded out by the author's reminiscences this book is 'tooljunkies delight'.

The Workshop Book
Scott Landis
Softback
Order nr. 305051
€ 22.95

Scott Landis takes a systematic approach to common problems such as storage for tools, lumber and supplies; heat, light and electricity; where to put benches and machines; dust collection and personal safety. Best of all, this book shows woodworkers how to create a woodworking sanctuary in any space they can afford.

The Workbench
A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench
by Lon Schleining
202 pages, many explanatory photographs and drawings, hardback
Order nr. 305185
€ 34.95

In this contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that perfect bench and its accessories.

This is a fresh look at the classic subject with a focus on helping readers find the right bench and accessories for their needs. The object is to guide the reader through making critical choices, including whether to buy it or build it.

Even long-time woodworkers dream of the perfect bench and the time to build it, and for them, the real enjoyment is in the planning. With nearly 300 photos and drawings, this book provides in-depth information along with the inspiration to fulfill workshop dreams.

Identifying Wood
Bruce Hoadley
Hardback
Order nr. 305048
€ 35.00

With just the naked eye and a hand lens, you will be able to identify many hardwoods and softwoods by following the straightforward techniques in this book. Bruce Hoadley provides an overview of the wood identification process, a look at the basic anatomy of woody plants, hundreds of easy-to-use charts and crystal-clear photographs and microphotographs, sources of information and materials, and a glossary of all technical terms used in the book.

The Commercial Woods of Africa
by Peter Phongphaew
206 pages, many colour photographs, hardback
Nr. 305178
€ 49.95

A Descriptive Full Color Guide profiles 90 exotic African woods. A full set of relevant facts is provided for each tree, including: a full-color photograph of each wood’s grain and pattern, a list of botanical, commercial and vernacular names, a map indicating the tree’s habitat in Africa, and descriptive text about the tree itself, the qualities of its wood, and its common uses and applications.

Finally, mathematical values detailing the woods various physical properties such as density, durability, bending strength, and shrinkage are included.

Bows & Arrows of the Native Americans
by Jim Hamm
157 pages, b/w photographs, softback
Nr. 305186
€ 14.95

A complete step-by-step guide to Native American bows and arrows, including information on how to build and care for wooden bows, sinew-backed bows, composite bows, strings, arrows, and quivers. Enlightening and entertaining, this book has easy-to-follow instructions for the reader who plans to make and use his own bow, and offers good reading for the armchair archer.

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