The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood (Complete Illustrated Guide)
Lonnie Bird
Lonnie Bird guides the reader toward first visualizing the shape that needs to be made, then drawing it, and then choosing the appropriate technique for creating it. Covers simple techniques as well as advanced ones, and includes bending as well as cutting processes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction How to Use This Book PART ONE: TOOLS & MATERIALS Section 1. TOOLS Layout Tools Basic Shaping Tools Tools for Edge Treatments and Moldings Tools for Carving Tools for Turning Tools for Bending Section 2. MATERIALS Dry Lumber Stock for Sawn Curves Stock for Bending Stock for Panels PART TWO: CUTTING SHAPES Section 3. STRAIGHT-EDGED SHAPES Milling Tapers Octagons Chamfers Section 4. CURVED SHAPES Arcs, Circles, & Ellipses Exterior Curves Interior Curves Section 5. COMPLEX SHAPES Raised Panels Door Frames Coopered Panels Compound Curves Section 6. TEMPLATE SHAPING Cutting with Templates Flush Trimming Profile/Trim Shaping Inside Corners PART THREE: EDGE TREATMENTS & MOLDINGS Section 7. EDGE TREATMENTS Simple Shaped Edge Shaping an Entire Edge Lipped Door Edge Shaping a Board's Face Dished Tabletop Section 8. BEADS Quirk Bead Beaded Backboard Cock Bead Section 9. SIMPLE MOLDINGS Machine-Cut Molding Hand-Cut Molding Section 10. COMPLEX & BUILT-UP MOLDINGS Solid Complex Molding Built-Up Molding Dentil Molding Section 11. CURVED MOLDINGS Arched Molding Gooseneck Molding PART FOUR: OTHER DECORATIVE SHAPES Section 12. COVES Machine-Cut Coves Hand-Cut Coves Section 13. FLUTES & REEDS Flutes Reeds PART FIVE: SPECIAL TECHNIQUES Section 14. TURNING Turning Basic Shapes Furniture Legs and Feet Pedestal Decorative Details Complex Turnings Section 15. CARVING Lamb's Tongue Shell Volute Rosette Flame Finial Carved Feet Section 16. BENDING Steam Bending Bent Lamination Kerf Bending Appendix: Shaping Small Parts List of Suppliers Further Reading Index
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