This book shows you how to make dozens of imaginative, good-looking, useful projects for your deck, patio, lawn, and garden. What's more, you can build everything here with ordinary materials, simple tools, and just basic skills. As you page through the book, you'll find picnic tables, deck furniture, barbecue gear, gardening tools, and landscape enhancements. There's play equipment for kids and work equipment for adults. There are big projects and quick projects, all of them offering practical utility. For your total convenience, each project comes with a quick guide showing your investment in time and money, complete shopping and cutting lists, an exploded drawing, and illustrated step-by-step instructions.

Building for the Lawn and Garden: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Benchen, Gates, Planters, Swings, Feeders, Tables, and More

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kelsey, John

Kirby, Ian J.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rodale Pr

You don't need to spend lots of time and money or be highly skilled in woodworking to fill your yard with handsome projects. All you need is this pictorial guide, and you can make dozens of imaginative and practical plans for your deck, patio, lawn, or garden. What's more, you can build everything here -- from picnic tables and potting benches to barbecue gear and landscape enhancements -- with ordinary materials, simple tools, and basic know-how. You'll find complete shopping lists, exploded drawings, and a guide to costs and time needed to complete each project.

Building for the Lawn & Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Benches, Gates, Planters, Swings, Feeders, Tables, and More

Crafts & Hobbies

Rodale Books

The dovetail joint, which woodworkers rely on for making boxes and drawers, is the hallmark of fine craftsmanship. This unique and comprehensive handbook unlocks the intricacies of the classic joint. Woodworkers will learn exactly how to design and lay out all forms of the dovetail, and how to saw and chisel the mating parts for a perfect fit. With detailed explanations at every step and a refreshingly contemporary approach, master craftsman Ian Kirby shows how to achieve superb results with traditional hand tools as well as modern router jigs. Variations include the through, single-lap and double-lap dovetail; the secret miter dovetail; dovetail housings; and rail-to-leg dovetails. Every serious woodworker will need to own this essential reference.

The Complete Dovetail: Handmade Furniture's Signature Joint

Linden Publishing

Steps for putting perfect edges on planes, chisels, knives, and carving tools.

Sharpening with Waterstones: A Perfect Edge in 60 Seconds

How to set up table saws, manage blades, and build simple jigs.

The Accurate Table Saw: Simple Jigs and Safe Setups (Cambium Handbook)