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Anyone can learn the prosÂ’ carpentry secrets thanks to Popular Mechanics and Rick Peters. Popular Mechanics covers everything: the equipment needed and how to use it; window and door casings; baseboards; all types of molding (including the always-challenging crown molding); wainscoting; and architectural trim like gingerbread. There are even insider tips on decorative molding, including how to dress up a plain door so it looks like it has raised panels. For owners wanting to add trim to their home, this book is the most valuable tool of all!
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An amateur cabinetmaker, no matter how skillful, runs into a whole new set of problems when he or she takes on a large project-building all the cabinets for a kitchen or a study, for example-or ventures into cabinetmaking as a commercial venture. For these larger production projects, the issues of accurate and consistant measurement, standardization, effciency, and procedure become crucial This practical manual explains how to keep the work flowing and how to keep in a custom cabinet shop.
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Simple and beautiful, Arts & Crafts furniture designs offer an excellent learning medium for furniture building. The Arts & Crafts style allows the craftsman to build a quality piece of furniture in a reasonable amount of time while providing a very successful and satisfying experience. This book offers a collection of twenty-five Arts & Crafts furniture projects for every room in your home. Some of the projects are accurate reproductions of the original furniture pieces, while others are loving adaptations of the style. In addition to the projects in the book, we've included a Bonus CD-ROM with ten furniture projects and ten technique articles to provide even more information on construction and finishing. This book represents a collection of projects that the Popular Woodworking staff considers to be some of most visually appealing pieces of furniture ever created.
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Learn how the pros build and install cabinets and countertops (and how you can avoid some costly mistakes). These 17 articles from past issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine were written by builders and represent the hard-won knowledge of professionals who have learned from their mistakes.
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The standard text on face frame cabinets; revised and updated to include the latest techniques, brand-new materials, and in-depth instructions for installing traditional kitchen cabinets. Tolpin covers the complete process from design to layout, door style and hardware.
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While many 2x4 books offer pretty clunky furniture projects, it doesn?t have to be that way. Arts & Crafts furniture designs lend themselves to working with dimensional lumber fairly easily. Working with 1x, 2x and some plywood (all available in home center stores), many attractive furniture pieces (for indoors and outdoors) are not only possible, but simple. This book includes 20 Arts & Crafts inspired furniture and household pieces, built using dimensional lumber from home center stores. Joinery is simple (biscuits, dowels and screws) and require very limited woodworking tools and machinery.