Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door
Purchase
Description
Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door.
Few pieces of furniture, save perhaps chairs, work as hard as doors. Building them to last, especially exterior doors, takes knowledge and experience that don’t come from making other types of furniture, such as tables and bookcases. Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door by woodworker Strother Purdy gathers all the information and guidance that both beginning and intermediate woodworkers need to be successful making their first door.
While covering the construction of the eight most popular doors, Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door starts first by addressing the fundamentals: the basics of good design and proper construction technique, the pros-and-cons of common materials including wood and sheet goods, interior and exterior finishes, hardware and the fine points of hanging doors.
Once those key elements are covered, Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door offers project chapters that walk the reader step-by-step through the construction of eight essential doors, explaining design and material choices in specific contexts, tool options and other considerations. The first four projects are easly accessible to a beginner while the the remaining projects offer up some more challenging details for the intermediate woodworker. Also included are sidebars containing amusing anecdotes and mistake stories – each delivering tips as well as details for hanging a door – and an inspiring gallery of doors that are sure to inspire.
Doormaking: Materials, Techniques and Projects for Building Your First Door is a must for any woodworking hobbyist, professional craftsman, or DIY homeowner.
Products You May Like
-
BUILDING COUNTRY COMFORTS
$19.95
$11.97
Perfect for today's focus on green building techniques and self-reliance, this how-to guide combines and updates two classics-In Harmony with Nature and Country Comforts. The book showcases homes and detailed, step-by-step building projects by non-professionals, along with their personal stories. Heartwarming and informative, this is for everyone seeking a more natural way of life.
-
WOODTURNING WIZARDRY, revised edition
$27.95
$16.77
This fascinating guide gives woodturners the chance to create eye-catching and decorative projects using special tools and techniques. Spheres inside of spheres, delicate latticework, puzzles, whistling top, 20 projects in all. The book combines special techniques with special tools, chucks and exact measurement. Springett explains it all in precise style so that you too can perform magic with your lathe.
-
Google SketchUp® Guide for Woodworkers - The Basics (FWW)
$16.95
$10.17
Just what woodworkers have been asking for. This instructional video is specifically designed for the way woodworkers use SketchUp. Whatever your skill level, novice to advanced, you’ll get up to speed fast with Fine Woodworking’s Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers: The Basics. Easy and intuitive to use. Learn how to set up the program, use drawing tools, navigate in a 3-D space, sketch, refine drawings, and create shop-ready plans. Already know a little? This easy-to-skim video lets you focus on what’s new to you and even lets you go back to review any topic, any time. Learn from an experienced instructor. Dave Richards, an authorized SketchUp trainer, uses a basic cabinet as a model. He walks you through the whole process, from rough sketch through developing your own set of project plans. Along with his expert tips and shortcuts, you’ll get his handy cheat sheet plus a bonus digital plan. The best way to invest an hour. The Basics video is just what every woodworker needs to do custom work. With SketchUp, it’s easier to design your own furniture, refine the concept in 3-D before you build, and assemble all the parts flawlessly. 66 min.
-
WINDOWS OF THE WORLD
$25.00
$15.00
A trove of color photographs reveals the complex character and endless variety of a basic architectural element: the window. A visual catalog that explores the forms, styles, materials, and colors of windows from around the globe.
-
BUILD LIKE A PRO: BUILDING OUTDOOR STRUCTURES
$19.95
$11.97
Building Outdoor Structures offers practical, easy-to-follow instructions on enhancing any homes front and backyard with the natural beauty of wood. Starting with the simple uses of wood in landscaping, such as raised beds, author Scott McBride shows the average DIYer how to build retaining walls, arbors, pergolas and 7 other projects, including a gazebo. The book covers everything from choosing materials to building techniques.
-
Handmade Furniture: 21 Classic Woodworking Projects to Build for Your Home
$19.95
$11.97
by Rafael Nathan. For a woodworker, there’s nothing more satisfying than building a project that adds beauty and function to a busy home: the stunning cutting board used every night in the kitchen, the elegant and helpful end-table next to the bed, or the handsome coffee table that proudly serves in the living room. Ultimately, it’s the handmade pieces of furniture that become the family heirlooms for generations to come. With Handmade Furniture by Rafael Nathan, a professional cabinetmaker and the former co-publisher of Australian Wood Review, woodworkers of all skill levels will discover 21 beautiful projects that will be a welcome and proud addition in any room in the house. Ranging from boxes and trays to tables and cabinets, the stylish yet straightforward projects require only a limited number of hand and power tools and will enhance a woodworker’s joinery abilities as they progress from biscuits and dowels to dovetail and mortise and tenon joints.
Click here to view the inside of the book!