Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.

Entirely devoted to the failure analysis of coatings and paints – an “excellent reference to a select market”. Latest edition contains new material on surface preparation, transfer of salt to steel from contaminated abrasive, effect of peak density on coating performance, on galvanizing, silane-modified coatings, polyurea coatings, polyaspartics, and powder coatings and on dry spray. Balances scientific background and practical advice, giving both the theory and applications in a slim, easily readable form. Includes case studies of laboratory tests. Written by an author with over 25 years of experience in the paint and coatings industry.

Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.

For custom car builders today, one of the biggest expenses--and a make-or-break features of the build--is the paint job. Now, with the expert help of one of the country's top custom painters, readers can learn to custom paint their own cars, from design to finishing touches. With the attention to detail and keen sense of style that have made her the most sought-after custom painter working today, JoAnn Bortles offers step-by-step instructions for achieving that professional look at home. Her book provides detailed advice on every step from basecoating to artwork and airbrushing to clearcoating and troubleshooting, with special emphasis on designing and executing elaborate paint schemes such as flames, skulls, murals, and pin striping. Clearly written and amply illustrated, this is the ultimate how-to-custom-paint guide. Also contains an excellent chapter on realistic flames as featured on the book's cover.

This book is a call to ones attention in identifying their true and diving nature. Which are ones true expression of life, and its nature. Are you listening to the call or are you ignoring its call? This book will furnish information to maintain the proper relationship with one self. In maintaining this relationship one must be fully conscious of ones total being in and of its needs. This book provides information from both eastern and western philosophies. The focus is to encourage reconnection to ones real self through the use of meditation, proper diet, and by using physical and mental exercises. We have the ability to transform ourselves; all the power is provided within us, the key is to use it. In taking posession of this power and to do what is needed hopefully one will receive the insight to the roots of many physical and mental problems, which has cause continuous struggles of ones outser self. In this book I have addressed the need for harmony of body and spirit, for one to be totally balance in one s physical and mental expression. With the use of specifics for bodily ailments and meditation, and other mental exercises of affirmations and mantras are given to improve balance. The ultimate goal is to inspire and educate others in ways to promote harmony and balance for a better human existence.