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Advice on choosing, tuning, sharpening, and using this classic handtool. With a sharp, well-tuned handplane you can quickly adjust the fit of parts or joints, flatten a panel or produce a glass-smooth surface for finishing. But learning to use this classic handtool can be something of a challenge. This book offers advice on how to choose handplanes and tune and sharpen them for top performance. There is also in-depth information on specialty planes and spokeshaves. Sections include: # Choosing the right bench planes # Flattening wide panels # Planing difficult grain # Making and using a shooting board # Using rabbet planes # Tuning up a spokeshave # Making wooden planes
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Learn basic tablesaw operations as well as special tasks. The tablesaw is the work horse of the modern wood shop. Peerless at ripping stock, this verastile tool can also crosscut accurately and cut a wide variety of joints. This book covers basic tablesaw operations as well as special tasks like cutting coves. Expert woodworkers also offer advice on tablesaw joinery, dust control, and making jigs. Sections include: # Sawing joint-quality edges # Cutting box joints # Tablesawn dovetails # Shopmade tenoning jigs # Building extension tables # One-stop cutting station # Dustproofing a tablesaw
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Advice you can use on all the stationary machines used in a woodshop. Machines make woodworking more efficient, but to perform at their peak they need to be tuned up and maintained. In these articles, expert woodworkers offer advice on set-up, choosing blades, bits, and cutters, and building jigs. This book covers all of the stationary machines used in a woodshop, including tablesaws, bandsaws, jointers, planers, shapers, and drill presses. Sections include: # Choosing machines # Machine tune up # Selecting blades # Milling stock square # Restoring used machines # Taming shop noise # Protecting surfaces
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Here is the second volume in Dana Batorys series of guides to the major woodworking machinery manufacturers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Covered in this volume are Parks Machine Co., the Boice-Crane Co., Baxter D. Whitney & Son, and Crescent Machine Co. As in his first volume, the author provides a history of each manufacturer, as well as a description of the evolution of its product lines over the years. Accompanying the histories are many illustrations taken from the catalogs of the period. This is a mine of information about old woodworking machines and the companies that made them.
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The first in the "Success with Woodworking" series. An introductory guide that makes the theory and mechanics of sharpening easy to understand. Covers both hand and machine sharpening and the sharpening of specific tools such as turning, carving, scrapers, planer blades, household items, and much more.
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An in depth guide to the router and how it is used. Includes information on a box-combing jig, flush-trimming jig, small circle jig, end-trimming jig, housing jig, and trammel jig. Also what to look for in a router, how to buy a dove-tailing jig, how to keep your router running smoothly.
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The collection of articles from the magazine covers all you need to know about hand tools, from choosing the right ones for the job, to marking and measuring, using chisels, sharpening edge tools and saws, and essential hand tool techniques.
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"A Yankee Craftsman's Practical Methods". A practical handbook that presents detailed instructions for making 20 essential hand tools for joinery and general woodworking. All tools can be made using common workshop tools and techniques. Readers will learn how to make various joints with the tools they have constructed. Tools include Dual beam marking gauge, case squaring stick, backsaw, bucksaw, striking tools, shaped mallet, bench plane, and many others.
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"Crafting 16 Artistic Mosaics with Your Scroll Saw". Instructions for each pattern include enlargement dimensions, size, and thickness of wood to use, gluing and sawing details, and stainding and finishing advice. Moore also includes detailed instructions for completing the wood frame to fit the finished project.
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Patterns for 25 projects are included. Full-size patterns for boxs, lids, and lid inserts are presented for all projects. Projects include hinged and lift off lids, boxes with drawers, laminated boxes, recipe boxes, tissue boxes, knitting trays, desk organizers, and much more are also included.
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The 12 projects in this book put your router to good use, and they take only a weekend to complete! Using woods such as cherry, beech, and walnut, novices will soon be building an inlaid side table, a coffee table with sliding panels for hidden storage, and an elegant fluted oak table lamp. Easy-to-follow diagrams and abundant photographs detail everything you need to know to get started.
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This indispensable handbook explains how to choose and set up the right table saw for any shop, and demonstrates basic and advanced techniques for ripping, crosscutting, and cutting bevels and mitered edges. Various jigs and auxiliary miter fences are outlined as well, all designed to maximize safety and efficiency. Filled with practical information and more than 250 color photographs and illustrations, this in-depth introduction provides innovative uses for specialty blades, and great tips for controlling dust, maintaining your saw, working with imperfect lumber, and much more.
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With a focus on traditional and modern hand tools, acclaimed craftsman David Charlesworth presents an indispensable guide for all levels and abilities. Lively writing and more than 300 photographs show how to select and use equipment such as chisels, planes and peen hammers to make high-quality furniture. Covering everything from plans for making a spokeshave adjustor to age-old dovetailing techniques and ways to keep tools in top shape, this is the ideal workshop accessory. Theres also instruction on finishing techniques, and lots of inspiration and encouragement.
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26 ingenious jig and fixture projects from the pages of Woodworkers Journal magazine. Each project is accompanied by detailed plans, expert instructions, and helpful tips to ensure your finished project is well-built and a productive enhancement to your table saw and router. Includes technical and exloded drawings, materials lists, and more.
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This invaluable guide includes everything a woodworker needs to know in order to purchase, setup, successfully use, and maintain a band saw. Also covered is a part-by-part overview of every saw component, the fundamental techniques of alignment to achieve precise cuts, tips on choosing the right blade, and the fundamentals of hand positioning. Special sections include band saw accessories, trouble-shooting, and inside secrets to keep a band saw running effectively and efficiently for years to come.
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Renowned woodworker Paul Anthony and Fine Woodworking bring you the definitive guide to power tools -- all you need to know to choose, use, outfit and keep tools working their best! Each tool's value and unique features are explored. If you want to ramp up the tools you already own you'll discover new ways to get more out of your old friends. And if you want to refine your techniques and advance your skills look no further. Expert advice will be yours on every page. - Includes often overlooked power tools - Expert in-depth coverage of routers, tablesaws, drill presses and hollow-chisel mortisers, bandsaws, jointers, planers and shapers, scrollsaws, oscillating spindle sanders, circular saws, jig saws. - Step-by-step photos and instructions.
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This new title explores the many creative possibilities of floor-standing, stand-mounted, and portable bench-top bandsaw models. With these practical instructions and color photographs, woodworkers can quickly master basic skills such as ripping, cutting angles, and mirror cutting, then practice advanced procedures like making dovetail, mortise and tenon joints and cutting variable-curve edgesand even make their own money-saving jigs and templates.
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Originally published in 1941 this is a fascinating look at how to build a variety of workshop tools. The book was published during and after World War II and the idea was to show craftsmen how to cope with shortages of metal and other materials and still build useable machinery. Included are plans for table saws, thickness planer, cordwood saw, hydraulic press, drill presses, jigsaws, and many other handy tools.