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601 Woodshop Tips & Tricks

By Graham McCullouch

Woodworkers take pride in their ability to save money and time and devising new tips or tricks of the trade are a popular way of doing so. 601 Woodshop Tips & Tricks is a compendium of hundreds of clever solutions to woodworking problems encountered every day by both beginners and pros. Many of these pointers are time and shop-tested, with more than 200 new ideas developed in response to emerging technologies and products, such as magnets and glues. Extensive illustrations and color photographs, plus several plans for jigs and fixtures, are included.

 304 pages

Arts & Crafts Furniture Anyone Can Make

By David Thiel

While many 2x4 books offer pretty clunky furniture projects, it doesn't have to be that way. Arts & Crafts furniture designs lend themselves to working with dimensional lumber fairly easily. Working with 1x, 2x and some plywood (all available in home center stores), many attractive furniture pieces (for indoors and outdoors) are not only possible, but simple. This book includes 20 Arts & Crafts inspired furniture and household pieces, built using dimensional lumber from home center stores. Joinery is simple (biscuits, dowels and screws) and require very limited woodworking tools and machinery.

 240 pages

Bill Hylton's Ultimate Guide to the Router Table

By Bill Hylton

The router is one of the most versatile tools in any shop, and router tables make it even more versatile by incorporating it into a stationary platform. The router table opens up a whole new world of using the router that simply can't be done using it freehand. Ultimate Guide to the Router Table starts by giving the reader the option of building their own router table (with plans) or buying a manufactured table (with suggestions on what to look for when buying). In either case, this book gives the woodworker all the information they need to use their router table. Basic router-table knowledge is covered in the first chapter: safety issues, setup fundamentals, feed direction and workpiece control. The next chapters cover specific operations unique to the router table. The woodworker is not only shown how to do an operation, but why to do it in the way explained (and the pitfalls of trying to do it another way). Sidebars and tip boxes will highlight appropriate router bit choices, details on how to construct jigs that can be used in conjunction with the router table and other essential information. Illustrations and close-up photos show procedures clearly. A router is mounted under a table with the business end of the router protruding up through a hole in the table. This enables the user to perform tasks that can't be done with the router hand held. Operations such as edge profiling, making mouldings, cutting lock-miter joints, box joints, rabbets, grooves, splined miters, using templates, pin routing and more can be done using a router table.

128 pages

Box by Box

By Jim Stack

When it comes to great woodworking projects, it's hard to beat boxes. Using a minimal amount of materials, you can craft wonderful gifts or items for sale. And it's a great opportunity to use those pieces of special wood you've been hoarding. The real trick to successful box making is coming up with the right designs. You want something that's attractive, of course, but you also need a design that suits your particular tools and abilities. In Box by Box, author and woodworker Jim Stack offers up plans for twenty-one boxes, along with step-by-step instructions for making them. They range from lovely, simple creations that a novice can make with just a few hand tools, all the way through designs with drawers and dovetail joinery that will provide experienced woodworkers with an exciting challenge. The selection of boxes in this book offers something more than just lovely projects for woodworkers of every skill level. Taken as a whole, they actually provide a course in woodworking. If you were to begin with the first box a very simple affair consisting of seven simply cut pieces of wood and move right on through the book making each project one after the other, you would end up with a lot more than just a very nice collection of boxes. You would end up with a head full of hard-core woodworking knowledge, and hands that know what to do in the woodshop. In the process of making these boxes, you'll learn how to lay out parts, match grain, saw shapes on the band saw, cut a wide variety of joints with the table saw, router, and handsaw, bookmatch veneers, glue and clamp up assemblies, install hardware, and even do a bit of decorative carving. All of the techniques are very clearly demonstrated in step-by-step fashion in carefully composed photographs. Cutlists are provided, and you get plenty of tips along the way to ensure that your project comes out as it should. Of course you'll pick up on a lot of nifty little tricks along the way, such as using painter’s masking tape on your pipe clamps to prevent them from staining your work pieces during glue-ups. Another thing that's great about these particular boxes is that they're not just variations on a theme. Far from it. Leaf through these pages and you'll see arched-top boxes shaped like treasure chests, oval boxes, traditional boxes with dovetailed corners, a pyramid-shaped box with drawers, a box shaped like a circus tent, and a 20-sided sphere. (That's gotta be fun to assemble!) There's even a box that's modeled after a locking safe, which includes a shop-made tumbler mechanism. Some of them are made to suit particular purposes. There is a lap desk, and a box to display collectible knives, with each resting in its own French-fit recess. There's a box for recipe cards, and one that includes a grid insert for organizing a collection of small items. A lovely dovetailed box designed to hold silverware is destined to become a treasured family heirloom. Of course you'll find a couple of very nice jewelry boxes too. All of it is attractive and sure to provide you with lots of your own design ideas as well. Regardless of your woodworking experience, building these boxes will provide a world of fun and the opportunity to develop lots of new skills. In the process, you'll become a better woodworker bit by bit, and box by box.

144 pages               

Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets, Second Edition

By Danny Proulx

In fact, Danny Proulx's concise, easy-to-follow instructions enable you to create incredible kitchens with just a few power tools -- a table saw, circular saw, router and drill. Completely revised and updated, Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets, Second Edition, provides start-to-finish guidelines for crafting upper and lower cabinets, plus practical information on kitchen design, material selection and tool shortcuts. Proulx's instruction is practical, easy to understand and time-tested, refined in his own shop, and taught by him in countless seminars and workshops. You'll learn how to plan, design, construct and install your own complete handmade kitchen, from simple cabinets and over-the-sink cupboards to lazy-Susan shelving, stemware storage and more. Page after page, Danny Proulx proves that you can build your own beautiful kitchen cabinets.

128 pages               

Chairmaking Simplified

By Kerry Pierce

Chairmaking Simplified offers the complete chair experience for woodworkers by providing not only step-by-step instructions for an in-depth education on chairmaking but also a history of chair design and a section on how to design a comfortable chair. Other titles have covered very specific chairs such as Windsor or Shaker, but this is the first title to cover chairs in a comprehensive manner by offering a variety of styles and configurations guaranteed to offer at least one favorite for every woodworker. Author Kerry Pierce has simplified the process of chairmaking by using jigs and his voice lends to clear and easy instruction.

192 pages

Creating Beautiful Boxes w/Inlay Techniques

By Doug Stowe

Doug Stowe is a woodworker with 20 years' experience and an eye for boxes and box making. In a well-presented, concise format he outlines 15 projects illustrated in full color. The designs are open-ended, allowing the available wood to take the lead in a given project. Materials and tool lists are included, and line drawings highlight details the photographs cannot. Solid advice on woodworking, and by extension, life, is included where appropriate. Most of these projects are geared toward the experienced woodworker, but less skilled hobbyists and other general "enjoyers of wood" will also find pleasure here. Gentle in tone but strong in presentation, this book is solidly grounded in practice.

128 pages

Creating Your Own Woodshop

By Chalres Self

Many typical woodshops are works in progress and have been set up haphazardly over time, often at the expense of efficiency, safety and ultimately woodworking comfort. By offering a plan for any size and location of shop, this book solves your woodshop planning problems and will even help you redesign an existing inefficient shop. Topics covered include electrical, lighting, zoning permits, dust collection, workflow and much more.

  208 pages

Best of Shops & Workbenches, The

By Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine editors

Though woodworkers seem to have 100 different ways of performing a single operation, there are a few things we all agree on. And one of them is that we really like our shops and our workbenches. Even if they are run-down, cramped, ill-lit or just odd, we're always seeking to make the best of the space we're given.

On this easy-to-use CD, you'll find the 62 best articles on workbenches, shop furniture, shop organization and the essential jigs and fixtures that have been published in Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine during the last 10 years. You'll discover articles on all aspects of creating and improving your workshop – everything from the electric service and duct collection to building a workbench and storing your hand tools. No matter what your workshop situation, the articles on this CD will help you make your shop a more efficient and pleasant place to work.

Here's a look at some of the highlights:

§         10 Workbench Plans: whether you want a traditional 18th-century bench, a Shaker bench or an ultra-modern bench for storage and assembly, you'll find complete plans on this CD.

§         11 Articles on Shop Setup

§         Learn where to place every single tool and machine so your shop is an efficient and pleasant place to work.

§         Learn everything you need to know about shop wiring, lighting and dust collection.

§         37 Jigs and Toolboxes

§         Build the right toolbox and equip your shop with the jigs that no shop should be without, such as table saw sleds and router mortising jigs.

Build the 21st Century Workbench

With Robert W. Lang

This DVD will play in any DVD player attached to a television. However, you must have a DVD reader in your computer to access all the data files on this DVD.

This new workbench from Robert W. Lang combines the best workholding devices and ideas from a number of historic bench forms, along with a few design twists of his own. Whether you use power tools or hand tools (or both), this knockdown bench design is perfectly suited for the modern workshop.

This DVD contains everything you need:

• Hour-long video details the bench construction process

• 3D SketchUp model shows bench components from every angle

• Complete printable construction drawings

• PDF slide show of entire construction process

• Enhanced PDF of magazine article, with step-by-step construction instruction

Handplane Basics:  A Better Way to Use Bench Planes DVD

With Christopher Schwarz

While bench planes are the most fundamental handplanes in your shop, they also are the most vexing. Ask two woodworkers how to choose, set up and use your bench planes and you'll get three answers.

After years of historical research and practical bench experience, Editor Christopher Schwarz has found a way to simplify the convoluted bench plane system so you can think for yourself when it comes to these tools. After viewing this DVD you'll know how to select the right size plane for your work. You'll know how to sharpen and set it up so it does the job at hand. And you'll learn how to use the plane so you make perfectly flat and gleaming panels (with the minimum amount of effort).

This DVD doesn't simply spout off a new idiosyncratic way to work with bench planes. Instead Schwarz explains how all the systems work so you can immediately see their strengths and weaknesses and exploit them so you'll do better work.

"Handplane Basics" puts into practice all of the principles explained in the story "Bench Planes:

The System of Three" in this issue of Woodworking Magazine and dives further into the topics of sharpening, setup and use. If you are confused or frustrated by your bench planes, this DVD is just the ticket.

SketchUp for Woodworkers: Part 1 Getting Started

With Robert W. Lang

This ShopClass is comprised of our series of 12 lessons in the basics of using SketchUp (a free 3D-modeling program from Google). The video lessons on this CD take you step by step from setting up the software to gathering information from your finished model. So you'll head to the shop with all the information you need to build any project with confidence. You'll know the exact sizes of every part, and how the parts go together – before you ever cut any wood!

SketchUp for Woodworkers: Part 2: Advanced Techniques

With Robert W. Lang

This CD shows you how to quickly and easily resize even the most complex plans. The video lessons from this CD build on the skills learned in ShopClass Part One. You'll learn the magic of copying instead of drawing and the art of making changes. You'll be able to print detailed parts lists and full-sized templates. You'll know the exact sizes of every part and how the parts go together — even before you cut the wood! Add accurate details such as dovetails, raised panels and cope-and-stick-joints to your projects.

Greene & Greene Furniture

By David Mathias

This book emphasizes details in the work of Greene & Greene as well as their gestalt design philosophy (designing house, furniture, decorative arts) and the important influences on their work. As was the case with their work, the author pulls together disparate influences such as the Arts & Crafts movement, Japanese architecture and philosophy, Chinese furniture and the environment and topography of California (a sometimes overlooked but crucial element). Numerous new photographs together with historical photos provide context and perspective.

 224 pages

Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture

By Bruce Johnson

The Grove Park Inn opened in 1913, at the height of the American Arts & Crafts movement and was decorated with furniture from Roycroft, one of the major commercial producers of Arts & Crafts furniture. The Inn has retained many of the original pieces and has continued to acquire a large and rare collection of original Arts & Crafts furniture. The Grove Park Inn serves as an important link in the history of the Arts & Crafts movement and is a great location to view the furniture in place. This collection is the next best thing to visiting the Grove Park to see the furniture for yourself, showcasing this rare and beautiful furniture for the first time in any book. You'll also find never-before-published measured drawings for many of these pieces, making this a wonderful collection for history buffs and woodworkers alike.

  176 pages

Popular Woodworking's Arts & Crafts Furniture

By Popular Woodworking Editors

Arts and Crafts furniture offers good-looking, quality furniture at a skill level that is approachable for most woodworkers. The style is second only to Shaker in terms of reader preference and More Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects focuses on popular pieces that are sure to appeal to woodworking enthusiasts of all levels. The bonus CD Rom includes additional projects not featured in the book, as well as useful tips and technique articles.

  208 pages

Puzzle Boxes

By Jeff Vollmer

Puzzle Boxes includes a DVD that contains more than 90 minutes of information. Author Jeff Vollmer shows you how to set up your band saw and how to cut, glue up, sand, fit and finish these amazing puzzle boxes. Have you ever thought inside the box? These bandsawn boxes could be the most intriguing and fun projects you've ever made. Author Jeff Vollmer describes his boxes as key–and–slide—cut a dovetail key, cut a slider piece, cut another key, cut another slider. That’s the puzzle or “combination” you use to get to the chamber or heart of the box. Then you cut out the guts of the box to create a chamber. But wait, there's more! Then you cut another box from the guts, then another box or drawer from those pieces, then another and maybe another until things get too small to handle safely. Any type wood can be used to make these boxes—wood with holes, cracks, splits, insect and wormholes, spalting and burls. Jeff calls these flaws “opportunities” to become creative.

  144 pages

Sculpted Band Saw Boxes

By Lois Ventura

Woodworker's love making boxes and a band saw box allows creativity that just can't be found in other woodworking. Of the few band saw box builders today, few have shared their work with other woodworkers and none offer the sculpted artistry of Lois Ventura's work. More than uniqueness of the type of box, Ventura's work has a sculpted beauty to it that starts with the design and moves through the construction. Readers will learn to make their own sculpted boxes and be inspired by Ventura's amazing designs.

128 pages

Storage & Shelving: The Shaker Way

By Kerry Pierce

The Shakers mastered the art of wooden storage systems like nobody else, ever. In large part, this mastery was the inevitable result of a philosophical approach to life that mandated cleanliness and organization. Storage systems that could keep clutter out of sight--and easily accessible - were the subject of a good deal of imaginative Shaker thought. Now, with this helpful guide, you can achieve you own simple and beautiful storage solutions in the Shaker style. This guide provides step-by-step instructions along with helpful hand-drawn illustrations, allowing you to create your own amazing Shaker shelving and furniture.

  144 pages

The Complete Cabinetmakers Reference

By Jeffery Piontkowski

No matter how big or small the job, The Complete Cabinetmaker's Reference is an indispensable resource for cabinetmakers. This handy, comprehensive guide does the homework for the reader, with:

§         Complete cutting lists for all standard-sized cabinets for the kitchen, bathroom, den and bedroom, along with a list of types and quantities of materials needed

§         Step-by-step instructions illustrated with clear, informative photographs

§         Tips and suggestions on building cabinets that will last a lifetime

§         Convenient spiral binding that allows readers to easily photocopy the pages

In addition to standard-sized cabinets, readers are also shown how to adapt the projects to build custom-sized pieces.

256 pages               

The Drawer Book

By Bill Hylton

No detail exemplifies the quality of a piece of furniture better than a drawer; and no other aspect of furniture making causes as much anxiety. The Drawer Book gives readers foolproof steps to create every kind of drawer, with every kind of woodworking joint, as well as professional information on the best way to fit and mount every drawer. With this book, and careful work, readers can create their own top quality drawers.

  160 pages

The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book

By Danny Proulx

At long last, durable joints can be made without clamps or special fasteners. And no book exists that shows woodworkers how to use this time-saving tool to create these joints-until now. The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book gives woodworkers step-by-step instructions for using a pocket-hole drilling jig to create joints in a range of stunning furniture projects, including: Face frames, Cabinets, Tables, Shelving units, Dressers, Frame-and-panel doors, and more. As with the biscuit joiner, woodworkers are learning they can't live without this small, inexpensive piece of equipment that has revolutionized how joints are made. The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book teaches them how to make the most of their new favorite tool. Danny Proulx opened his own custom kitchen-remodeling shop, Rideau Cabinets, in 1989.

128 pages               

The Table Book

By Popular Woodworking Editors

Need a table? The Table Book is just what you need. It contains 35 projects to choose from, each with complete plans, cutting lists and detailed step-by-step instructions. You can learn new woodworking techniques or improve or update your skills. Here are some of the table styles you can choose to build:                                                                                                        

    * Shaker candle stand
    * Greene & Greene table
    * Stickley poppy table
    * Porringer side table
    * Prairie-style coffee table
    * Maloof table
    * Creole table
    * Queen Anne side table
    * Modern occasional table
    * Nakashima-inspired table
    * and 25 more!                                                                                                           

 272 pages

Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use

By Christopher Schwarz

Every workbench should allow the woodworker to easily work the edges, faces and ends of boards, however most benches built during the last 100 years fail on at least one of these tasks. Workbenches is the only book that shows the reader how to design and build a good workbench and most importantly, how to use it in their shop for all sorts of tasks. This book dives deep into the historical records of the 18th and 19th centuries and breathes new life into traditional designs that are simpler than modern benches, easier to build and perfect for both power and hand tools. Two venerable designs are provided as basic skeletons and the knowledge presented shows woodworkers how to design custom workbenches, perfect for their style and method of woodworking.

144 pages