Woodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. In How to Carve Wood, the reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for each project and ends each chapter with a gallery of additional projects using the techniques learned.

How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and Techniques

Arts & Photography

Butz, Richard

History & Criticism

Taunton

With just the naked eye and a hand lens or elementary microscopy, you will be able to identify over 180 domestic and tropical hardwoods and softwoods by following the straightforward techniques in this book. Bruce Hoadley, a professor of wood science and technology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, provides: <ul>
<li>an overview of the wood identification process</li> <li>a look at the basic anatomy of woody plants</li> <li>hundreds of easy-to-use charts and crystal-clear photographs and microphotographs</li> <li>sources of information and materials, and a glossary of all technical terms used in the book</li> </ul>

Identifying Wood: Accurate Results with Simple Tools

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hoadley, R. Bruce

Crafts & Hobbies

For the 27th book in his highly successful patchwork and quilt series, Kaffe Fassett has chosen London's bustling, colorful, and funky Camden Lock as the inspiration for his new collection of quilts. Based around three locks on the Regent's Canal,&nbsp;Camden Lock&nbsp;is home to&nbsp;Camden Lock Market, one of London's top markets specializing in arts, crafts, and handmade items. The charming shops and market stalls at Camden Lock Market selling everything from vintage fashion, handmade jewelry, souvenirs, to beautiful homewares sourced from around the globe. Visitors and locals alike flock to Camden Lock to enjoy the views of Regent's Canal and explore the creative graffiti and street art that serves as the background for Kaffe's equally colorful quilts. The gallery section of the book showcases the 21 new quilt designs plus two new cushion designs, all brilliantly photographed on location at London's Camden Lock by Debbie Patterson. The deep jewel tones of Kaffe's Bright Bordered Diamonds and Cool Bordered Diamonds quilts are enhanced by the bold graffiti art found around the neighborhood. Kaffe's Rich Dark Medallion quilt, featured on the cover, juxtaposes bright pops of floral against geometric dark shapes, brilliantly set against the backdrop of shiny tiles and a watchful tiger. The stunning Hot Economy quilt feels perfectly at home draped over rustic pallets overlooking a corner of the marketspace, while his geometric Stripes and Triangles cushions beckon the reader to get cozy on a bench and do some people watching on a sunny afternoon in London.

Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in London: Photographed at Camden Lock Market

Fassett, Kaffe

Professional designer and woodworker Jim Makowicki's 22-project collection reflects uncanny historical detail and technical accuracy. Each ingeniously designed toy is a potential family heirloom, as a plaything or for display. Makowicki's sophisticated toy designs are extraordinary. Some Making Heirloom Toys projects have over 50 pieces; one, a handsome ferry boat complete with vintage vehicles has over 100. There are simpler toys, too, all suited to the average woodworker's skills. <ul>
<li>Projects are meticulously researched and include scale drawings that can be copier-enlarged into full-size working plans. </li> <li>Readers get step-by-step details, including safety, design and finishing information. </li> <li>Projects are mostly transportation toys: cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, boats and more.</li> </ul>

Making Heirloom Toys

Makowicki, Jim

You know how frustrating it is to work wood with tools that are dull. All that is over. Tool expert Leonard Lee has consolidated a lifetime of study of sharpening methods, techniques, and devices into the most practical reference on the subject. In The Complete Guide to Sharpening, you'll discover the most effective ways to sharpen your tools–from chisels to drill bits. You'll get better edges than on most razor blades, and you'll learn how to shape them to cut better and stay sharp longer. In fact, Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment wil allow you to sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter.

The Complete Guide to Sharpening

Lee, Leonard

Here is the definitive resource on the fine art of making shirts. Author David Page Coffin shows how to create elegant, custom-fit garments for a woman or a man that have a great tailored look and fit perfectly. And, even more important, once you learn to make and fit a shirt -- whether you have sewn for weeks or years -- your sewing skills will be dramatically improved. David shares the construction secrets of garments from the world's finest shirtmakers. Discover how to duplicate and even improve on these garments, using simple tools and techniques any sewer can acquire. Includes 15 pages of full-sized patterns for collars, plackets, cuffs, and pockets. In the companion video, Shirtmaking Techniques, Coffin demonstrates the techniques that are the hallmarks of fine shirtmaking and shows how to master rolled hems, flat-felled seams, collars, cuffs, and plackets. "This book is great -- fresh, focused information on shirtmaking. David Coffin's approach is straightforward and logical...no sooner do you pose a question than he answers it." -- Sandra Betzina, syndicated sewing columnist, author of Power Sewing and More Power Sewing, and host of HGTV's Sew Perfect

Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing

Coffin, David Page

Graphic Design

Here's your chance to become a more efficient carpenter. Larry Haun has been a production framer for more than 35 years and a teacher of apprentices for more than 20. In this book, Haun shows you, step by step, all the techniques he uses to frame a basic house, from laying down the sills to cutting the rafters. You'll learn about: <ul>
<li>cutting and installing posts and girders</li> <li>joisting and sheathing fluently</li> <li>laying out, cutting, assembling, and raising walls</li> <li>framing gable roofs, hips and valleys, and truss roofs</li> <li>building various types of stairs</li> </ul>
There is an opening chapter on tools, plans, codes, permits, lumber, and materials, and additional information throughout the book on safety and site-built tools. The Very Efficient Carpenter is no less than a complete course in basic framing.

The Very Efficient Carpenter: Basic Framing for Residential Construction

Haun, Larry

Architecture

Expert woodworker and writer Andy Rae takes the construction of furniture and breaks it into components ― from boxes, cases, doors and drawers to shelves and feet. He explains all the techniques used to build them, so you can choose the ones that are best for you. Then he shows you how to put the pieces together to make great furniture. In The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture &amp; Cabinet Construction, you'll acquire a working knowledge of woodworking materials, a higher control over your work and tools and an understanding of basic design principles. <ul>
<li>Graphic, step-by-step presentation of key techniques and methods</li> <li>Visual maps, cross-references and indexes make information easy to find</li> <li>Covers the many woodworking methods and tools available</li> <li>Modern, up-to-date coverage of tools and techniques</li> <li>Part of a three-volume encyclopedia of woodworking</li> </ul>

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture & Cabinet Construction

Rae, Andy

When you build your own cabinets you're not just saving money. You also can improve upon the materials and construction used in factory-made cabinets, and get exactly the sizes you want. And with the techniques that Udo Schimdt demonstrates and explains in Building Kitchen Cabinets, you can incorporate custom details in your cabinets to make them even more distinctive. Arched doors, custom cornice treatments, oversize pantry cabinets, and solid wood end panels are just a few of the options to consider. If you're comfortable using a router, tablesaw, and drill, this book will show you how to build beautiful cabinets in your own workshop. What's inside: <ul>
<li>Designing custom cabinetry to suit your space and budget</li> <li>Building drawers and doors in a variety of different styles</li> <li>Installing Euro-style concealed hinges and drawer slides</li> <li>Improving storage and convenience with special hardware and accessories</li> <li>Selecting and installing a wide range of countertops</li> </ul>

Building Kitchen Cabinets (Taunton's Build Like a Pro)

Schmidt, Udo

This book reinvents the countertop with a single material: concrete. Concrete Countertops is an essential book for architects, homeowners and contractors who want to learn how to design, form, mix, pour, color, trowel, inlay and finish decorative concrete countertops. Homeowners will be inspired by the 350 color photographs that bring this exciting medium to life.

Concrete Countertops: Design, Forms, and Finishes for the New Kitchen and Bath

Cheng, Fu-Tung

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