Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1986. — 384 p. Discusses woods, lumber grades, veneers, plywood, and particle board, shows how to read plans, and includes advice on layout, joinery, glue, fasteners, construction techniques, shelves, doors, drawers, and installation
Sterling, 1995. — 160 p. This handbook provides plans and techniques for constructing and outfitting good-quality workbenches to suit the individual needs of the home woodworker.
Fox Chapel Publishing Company, 2011. — 239 p. — (ToolSmarts). Routers can do an amazing variety of tasks in the workshop, from shaping molding to cutting joinery, but which type is the best investment - trim router, plunge router, multi-base router? Along with shop-tested buying advice, Routers and Router Tables includes complete plans for four complete router tables and...
Taunton Press, 2008. — 176 p. What's the best way to get a workshop to work well--no matter its size or how much equipment is in it? This book tells all. It shows woodworkers who want to do more how to do it better with functional shops that meet their needs. Featuring a great selection of well-designed projects, this step-by-step book guarantees that every workshop will be a...
Peoria, Illinois: The Manual Arts Press , 1909. — 170 p. Study Guides are books can be used by students to enhance or speed their comprehension of literature, research topics, history, mathematics or many other subjects. Topics that may be contained in a Study Guide include study and testing strategies; reading, writing, classroom, and project management skills. For example, in...
London, 1892. — 368 p. Organizer and instructor of manual training in woodwork to the London school board, and organizing to the joint committee on manual training in woodwork of the school board of London, the city and guilds of London technical institute, and the worshipful company of drapers
Peoria, Illinois: The Manual Arts Press, 1915. — 144 p. In many states laws have been passed, requiring the teaching of industrial subjects in all schools within the state. In many instances state funds are provided to aid this work in the high schools of farming communities, and in rural schools. The trend of the manual training courses in such schools is toward practical...
Popular Woodworking Books, 2007. — 416 с. — ISBN13: 978-1-55870-826-6. This book is a complete guide to everything a woodworker needs to know about working with wood. Detailed enough to satisfy the experienced craftsman, but also written in language clear and precise enough to be a great benefit to the beginning woodworker as well. This book is one of the most comprehensive...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 440 p. The only books split to cover the essential knowledge and practical activities for Carpentry and Joinery at Levels 2 and 3. Written by experienced author Peter Brett, this full-colour edition provides comprehensive coverage of the practical skills required to pass the work-based competence element of the NVQ.
Edinburgh, 1892. — 92 p. Is a useful introductory manual of technical instruction in wood working. It is written in a clear and business like style, and has a good equipment of illustrations.
Ivison, Blakeman and Company, 1888. — 204 p. The series of lessons in wood-working here presented is intended, principally, for use in schools in which hand-work is pursued as a part of general training. The order of sequence is designed to lead the pupil from one tool to another of larger capabilities, and from one operation to another requiring a higher degree of skill. In...
New York and Chicago, 1888. — 214 p. The series of lessons in wood-working here presented is intended, principally, for use in schools in which hand-work is pursued as a part of general training. The order of sequence is designed to lead the pupil from one tool to another of larger capabilities, and from one operation to another requiring a higher degree of skill.
London, Whittaker, 1891. — 342 p. David Denning wrote four influential books on: cabinet-making; fretwork; carving and finishing. His works were and are frequently quoted and referenced in books by woodworkers, for woodworkers. In print through numerous editions from the late 19th Century through the early 20th Century, The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making provides a thorough...
London: B.T. Batsford, 1913. — 220 p. Modern technical drawing a handbook describing in detail the preparation of working drawings, with special attention to oblique and circle-on-circle work, orthographic, isometric, and oblique projections, practical perspective, freehand drawing and "setting-out"; also various styles of lettering
Ginn & Company, 1903. — 150 p. This text has been prepared for the purpose of furnishing the pupil with the essential facts about tools and their uses. However efficient the instruction may be and however attentive the pupil, it is impossible for him to fully grasp and comprehend during a demonstration the names of tools and technical terms, most of which are new to him. This...
New York, 1897. — 84 p. The practice of wood-turning is an art relative to which there is little published, and there is, in consequence, little chance for arriving at conclusions as to the best method for performing any given operation; so there is a wide diversity in the methods by which different operators arrive at the same results. Some use one tool almost exclusively,...
Ginn & Co, 1888. — 180 p. This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on dry-fly fishing, with both theoretical and practical information for the dry-fly fishing enthusiast.
New York: A. J. Bicknell & co., 1874. — 128 p. Together with these rules, the author also presents tables of the weight and cohesive strength of the different materials used in the construction of buildings as well as the weight required to crush said materials, with a treatise on the adhesion of nails, screws, iron pins and glue. Also an easy system of stair railing for...
New York: William T. Comstock, 1897. — 162 p. The experience of workmen generally will testify that books have, as yet, furnished them but small assistance in the theory and art of construction. The object of the author in publishing this work, is to furnish them with rules for finding sections of pieces placed in any position ; for cutting every description of joints ; for...
New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1875. — 156 p. To invent and draw a system of stair-railing superior to any heretofore published, is claimed to be impossible. But after a careful examination of the systems now in use, the author of this work finds that they are not faultless, but susceptible of improvements, as will be demonstrated and proved to the satisfaction of every one who...
The Manual arts Press, Peoria, 1912. — 150 p. Especially arranged for use with the courses outlined and discussed in Correlated courses in woodwork and mechanical drawing, by the author.
Popular Mechanics Co., 1911. — 121 p. Vintage book on woodworking of the early 20th century. With illustrations throughout. Making-Out a Stock Bill. Laying Out Rough Stock. Hand Saws. Sawing with Hand Saws. Planes: How to Set and Adjust the Irons. Squaring Up Mill-Planed Stock 2G. Squaring Up Mill-Planed Stock (continued). Squaring Up Rough Stock. Whetting Plane Irons and...
Peoria, Illinois: The Manual Arts Press, 1916. — 194 p. It is the author's hope that the following text may be of service to apprentices to the trade, to vocational and trade school students, and to manual training students. The author's experience as a carpenter leads him to feel that not a few journey man carpenters may find their horizon widened and their usefulness as...
Peoria, Illinois: The Manual Arts Press, 1916. — 84 p. This book has been written in the hope that it may be of service in those grammar schools where a more extended treatment of subject-matter, such as that contained in the author's Essentials of Woodworking, is not possible of utilization to an extent sufficient t6 warrant its adoption as an individual text. The average time...
Taunton Press, 1997. — 272 p. Handplanes evoke the romance of an earlier era, when they performed countless woodworking tasks from preparing stock to shaping moldings. In The Handplane Book, aficionado Garrett Hack reveals the rich heritage of this classic tool with a treasure trove of information and history, including detailed guidance on how to buy a plane, tune it up, and...
D.C. Heath & Company, 1913. — 192 p. The following courses in Manual Training-for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades were prepared after eight years of careful study, during which time the author visited over 250 cities and towns in the New England States, New York and New Jersey.
London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1901. — 156 p. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's...
New York: J. Wiley & Son, 1874. — 730 p. This book is intended for carpenters — for masters, journeymen and apprentices. It lias long been the complaint of tbis class that architectural books, intended for their instruction, are of a price so high as to be placed beyond their reach. This is owing, in a great measure, to the costliness of the lates with which they are...
М.: Машиностроение, - 1972. - 208 с. В книге рассматриваются теория, расчет и результаты экспериментального исследования осевых турбин. Исследуются плоский, потенциальный, пространственный потоки в турбинной ступени. Значительное внимание уделено работе турбин на нерасчетных режимах и с охлаждаемыми лопатками. Представлен фактический материал по исследованию потерь в конкретных...
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1919. — 370 p. Early edition of English Church Woodwork, A Study in Craftsmanship During the Mediaeval Period A.D.1250-1550 by F. E. Howard & F. H Crossley in the original publisher's cloth binding. Includes 217 illustrations including monochrome plates. First published in 1917, this is the uncommon second impression. Contents include Structural...
New York: William T. Comstock 1896. — 544 p. It has been the aim of the Author, in preparing this work, to furnish a series of books that shall be of practical value to all who have to do with building operations, and especially to architects, draughtsmen and builders. In this volume an attempt has been made to escribe those materials and methods of construction that come...
Linden Publishing, 2000. — 132 p. Cabinetmaking at the highest level is an art, a discipline, a philosophy--even a way of life--in addition to being a useful craft. In this book one of the greatest living cabinetmakers reflects on the deeper meanings of his craft and explains for less accomplished workers how the right attitudes toward materials, tools, and time can increase...
Linden Publishing, 2007. — 192 p. Sharing his legendary techniques for coopered doors, dowelling, dovetail joints, frame-and-panel work, latches, hinges, fittings, and other cabinetry details, in The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking, master woodworker James Krenov elevates cabinetry to a true art. With continual themes of perfection of technique and building to the limits of one's...
Connecticut Historical Society, 2005. — 576 p. Connecticut Valley Furniture offers the first-ever systematic framework for classifying eighteenth-century Connecticut case furniture--high chests, dressing tables, desks, bureaus, chests-on-chests. Nearly two hundred illustrated entries present the findings of the Hartford Case Furniture Study, an extensive field study of over...
Popular Woodworking Books, 2015. — 128 p. Build your skills as you build solid seating! Inside, you'll find step-by-step photos and instruction, plus measured drawings, for 17 seating projects in a wide range of styles and skill levels. Projects range from simple, square stools to more challenging chairs and benches with compound joints. You'll learn how to use the best tools...
Popular Woodworking Book, 2015. — 128 p. Build your skills as you build terrific tables! Inside, you'll find step-by-step photos and instruction, plus measured drawings, for 17 tables in a wide range of styles and skill levels (including several handsome pieces you can easily build in a weekend). From simple tapered legs to contemporary cabrioles, from simple slap tops to...
Wentworth Press, 1906. — 114 p. Elementary Sloyd And Whittling, by Gustaff Larsson, 1906 was a standard text in the Sloyd, or Slojd system of education. "Sloyd is tool work arranged and employed as to stimulate and promote vigorous self-activity for a purpose which the worker recognizes is good. By 'Elementrary Sloyd' is meant bench work in wood, in two dimensions adapted to...
Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1995. — 164 p. Even though there isn't a holiday every week, woodworkers can make a festive project every weekend! Make signs, decorations, and gifts for New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Bonuses: a happy-birthday clown, a welcome sign, and three different alphabets to...
The Tauton Press, 2003. — 160 p. Kitchen remodeling is one of the most expensive and intensive remodeling projects you can undertake in any house. The process involves important design decisions about cabinets, countertops, lighting, appliances, layout, and finish treatments. In Renovating a Kitchen, a collection of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, professional...
New York: McMillan and Co, 1905. — 514 p. This instructional manual on the art of carpentry and joinery was originally published in 1905. It outlines the skills and basic knowledge necessary to become competent at woodwork, and includes chapters on 'Timber', 'Plane Geometry', 'Tools', 'Wooden Roofs', and much more. This is an excellent informative work, complete with many...
Sterling, 2008. — 160 p. Woodturners eager to reach the next skill level will find this guide invaluable! Anyone who can do spindle turning, and form open bowls and lidded boxes, will move on to even finer things with these hints on sanding, finishing, indexing, and designing, as well as techniques for crafting 33 fabulous items. Here’s everything needed to turn novices into...
Milwaukee, Wis.: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1919. — 148 p. This book is designed primarily for use as a text or reference book in connection with farm shop courses in agricultural schools or in the agricultural departments of rural high schools. The problems that this work presents are many and their seriousness is accentuated by the fact that commonly the farm shop...
University Of Minnesota Press, 1973. — 180 p. The layman, the beginner, the established artist - all will derive pleasure, inspiration and guidance from this uncommon book with a common touch. It tells, in simple straightforward language, how to make, how to understand, and how to use wood sculpture. In disarming manner, the author takes the wraps off the subject of art in...
Popular Woodworking Books, 2011. — 421 р. — ISBN: 978-1-4403-1040-9. Complete plans, expert instruction and rationale for building nine workbench formsInstruction on improving existing workbenches for better workholding and an improved woodworking shop.The Workbench Design Book not only shows how to design a workbench—it also discusses and presents nine specific designs plus...
Dover Publications, 1992. — 224 p. This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built, and finished their furniture and household articles. With its detailed text as well as over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic pieces, it offers woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts a practical guide to the essentials of replicating...
New York: The Industrial Press, 1920. — 341 p. This treatise on patternmaking deals, in its Sixteen chapters, with two general and important subjects which include, first, the principles governing the production of castings by forming suitable molds from patterns, and, second, the actual construction of patterns and core-boxes of different types. Since patterns are used to...
Stanley, 2005. — 240 p. Step-by-step format provides sure-fire how-to for popular storage projects, including bookcases, shelves, plus built-in nooks, benches, and window seats. Basic carpentry techniques are clearly explained and illustrated. Complete instructions offer solutions for common storage dilemmas plus ideas for unusual situations. A pre-start checklist with each...
Schiffer Craft, 1997. — 96 p. Marquetry is a technique where different natural colors of wood veneers are carefully cut to fit precisely together, creating a spectacular design in a single sheet or picture. In the mid 16th century, Italian craftsmen began using marquetry as a furniture decorating art. Using a technique called the double-bevel cut, the novice to advanced...
Taunton Press, 2011. — 176 p. Designed by award-winning woodworker, teacher, and bestselling author Doug Stowe, the cabinets in this book are thoughtfully designed, built of carefully selected materials, and have a utilitarian purpose. The skills learned through building these pieces can subsequently be applied to a wide variety of cabinetmaking projects. Throughout the book,...
J.H. Janson Cleveland, 1926. — 144 p. This book study looks at mouldings from historical, practical, aesthetic, and perceptual points of view; Richard Sammons' foreword and a selection of mouldings in use address applications in contemporary architecture. 100 line drawings, 25 photographs. This is a technical book for the architect on the use and design of architectural mouldings.