A fully-illustrated book that demonstrates all the essential techniques of woodworking. Topics covered include plank constructions and projects to make open shelving and a chest of drawers. Guidance on tools and setting up a workshop is given for beginners and the experienced craftsperson.

Whether you’re a beginner building your first shelf or an experienced craftsman designing a new gazebo, Spike Carlson has the answers to all of your woodworking questions. You’ll find expert advice on setting up your work area, choosing appropriate tools, working with different types of wood, and building furniture, as well as tips on joinery techniques, custom finishes, and much more.

An indispensable, authoritative manual on everything you'll ever need to know about woodworking tools, techniques, design, and materials. It provides the amateur woodworker with the skills and tricks a master brings to a project.

Discover how to create strong, permanent glue joints, by understanding the nature of adhesives, how they work, and how they're applied. Over 200 illustrations and photographs clearly show gluing techniques and the tools required.

In this book you'll learn how to cut boxes from a single piece of wood, build classic six-board chests, make large storage pieces with framed panels and doors, and create a chest full of drawers. Over 400 photos and illustrations show every aspect of box construction.

With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs complement the text.

Introduces principles of desk and bookcase design, shows how to make drawers, pigeonholes, tambours, secret compartments, shelves and doors, and suggests a variety of projects.

Discusses selection and maintenance of drill presses; working with metal and plastics, making screw pockets, mortice-and-tenon joints, toy wheels, rosettes, and includes instructions for several projects.

Possibly the most important task and the most confusing in woodworking is joinery -- attaching one board to another. This book simplifies this complex subject, showing how master woodworkers produce strong, durable designs.