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Joints and Jointmaking: (Woodworking Workshops Series) Professional Skills Made Easy--Includes Handy Tools Directory by Hamlyn click to enlarge

Joints and Jointmaking: (Woodworking Workshops Series) Professional Skills Made Easy--Includes Handy Tools Directory

Hamlyn
Here's a good guide for beginners. Covers halving joints; dowel and biscuit joints; mortise-and-tenon joints; miter joints; housing joints; dovetail joints; and others. Each set of instructions includes a checklist of reasons to choose that joint. Test your skills with four projects where good joinery is showcased-- a glass-topped table, mirror frame, bookcase, and breakfast tray.

80, 6x8, color photos, softcover

$9.95

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Kiyosi Seike,Kiyosi Sieke,Rebecca Davis   An authoritative look at joints used in Japanese carpentry, with photos and drawings. Western joiners will find much to borrow and adapt.... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Classic Joints with Power Tools

Yeung Chan   Most books on joint making lead you through a combination of power and hand tool techniques. But who has all the requisite... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Joinery, Shaping & Milling: Techniques and Strategies for Making Furniture Parts from Fine Woodworking (Essentials of Woodworking)

Taunton Press   The title suggests an improbable order of working (usually one begins with preparation of stock), but these articles from Fine Woodworking generally... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Modern Practical Joinery: A Treatise on the Practice of Joiner's Work by Hand and Machine, for the Use of Workmen, Architects, Builders, and Machinists

George Ellis   Here is how to make doors, windows, shutters, frames, showcases, and anything else with joints. This reprint of the 1908 edition is... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Complete Dovetail: Handmade Furniture's Signature Joint

Ian Kirby   The dovetail joint is the telltale voice of fine cabinetmaking, and the craft of making it reached its high point in the... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery

Gary Rogowski   Here is a complete visual reference on making joints for woodworking, with 1500 step-by-step process photos. Covers almost every practical joint along... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Complete Japanese Joinery

Yasuo Nakahara,Paul Nii,Hideo Sato   A practical and comprehensive guide, including all forms of splicing and connecting joints, with detailed step-by-step instructions and explanations of their use.... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book (Popular Woodworking)

Danny Proulx   Learn about the available jigs, and how to build one of your own, for this new type of joinery that requires no... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Dovetail a Drawer

   Learn from Frank Klausz, furniture making master, how to cut the dovetail and then assemble the drawer. He shows you how to... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Fine Woodworking on Boxes, Carcases, and Drawers

Fine Woodworking Magazine   Fine Woodworking's on series reprints technical articles from the magazine's golden black-and-white years, 1975 through 1984, in their original format. 41 articles,... [read more]

$9.95
book cover unavailable Good Wood Joints (Good Wood)

Albert Jackson,David Day   Here is a systematic survey of woodworking joints, showing which joint works best where, and how to make it. A chart shows... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Joinery (Fine Woodworking On)

Fine Woodworking   Fine Woodworking's on series reprints technical articles from the magazine's golden black-and-white years, 1975 through 1984, in their original format. Here you... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

Terrie Noll   The joint Book gives woodworkers the necessary information to chose the right joint for a particular job. It also features illustrated instructions... [read more]

$25.99
book cover unavailable The Precision Handcutting of Dovetails: With a Sequence to the Authors Fifty Years As a Planemaker and User

Cecil E. Pierce   Cecil Pierce, author of "Fifty Years a Planemaker and User," here guides the reader through the entire dovetailing process, by means of... [read more]

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