Working with Wood: 32 Essential Skills for Building Cabinets & Furniture and 7 Skill-Building Projects with Step-by-Step How-To Photos

by Tom Carpenter

Overview

Working with Wood describes how to build attractive and useful cabinets and furniture while learning a wealth of woodworking information.

32 essential skills are presented in 7 projects. You'll learn about:

• Types of woods available at lumberyards and home centers
• Which woods are easy to cut and shape
• Which woods require more patience and skill to plane and smooth
• Which woods accept which stains and finishes best
• How to make a variety of joints
• What is the appropriate use for each joint
• Design features and variations

No two projects use the same woods or the exact same joinery.

Each project presents a unique challenge so you receive a thorough overview of the most important skills a woodworker needs to know.

The projects appear in order of difficulty from simplest to more complicated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781890621957
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	379,880
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.84(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Carpenter is the bestselling author of The Complete Book of Woodworking. He lives in Minnetonka, MN.