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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.
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Devoted to design principles, influences, appreciation, and application, this fully illustrated manual presents a thoroughly unique approach to becoming a professional furniture maker and designer. The major part of the book is devoted to design principles, influences, appreciation and application for the self-employed craftsman, working either alone or in a partnership, or for the student or woodworker who wishes to start his own business. This section is fully illustrated with examples of work suitable for both batch production and one-off commission work, and these two aspects are discussed in full in two separate chapters. Nine designs are drawn to scale with elevations and plans and detailed cutting lists. A brief introduction is given to the craft furniture movement (Craftsman Furniture), the Cotswold School and the creative craftsmen of the period, followed by an outline of the Froxfield workshops and the author’s own training under Edward Barnsley. It continues with all the aspects of setting up and/or improving the workshop along with the tools and machinery that may be required for a variety of working situations. Business efficiency methods are also explored, including the available professional help such as accountants and solicitors who may ease the paperwork side of running a business, in addition to the promotional aspects—exhibitions, press coverage, gallery display, and photography—that are so essential to growth. Training through trade apprenticeships as well as formal training in specialist schools and technical colleges are given particular attention. This handbook is indispensable to any self-employed craftsman, student, or woodworker looking to start a business.
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"An Introduction to Carving in the Round". Includes 8 skill building projects. No previous carving experience is necessary. The skills learned in the first project, a candlestick, will enable the carver to complete the following seven projects.
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A contemporary view of the effects of wood, as used for building and fuel, and of deforestation on the development of civilization. Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood has been the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped successive societies over the millennia. This book was named one of the "100 Great Books" by Harvard University Press.
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This book bypasses spindle turning and provides basic instructions to get aspiring bowl turners directly to their goal of creating a pleasant bowl.
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Katz offers excellent coverage of subjects not ordinarily found in finish carpentry books. Includes mantelpieces, bookshelves, decorative doorways, decorative ceilings,crown moulding, and more. In the decorative walls chapter he covers paneling layout, using the Master Pro Calculator to determine spacing. The book is aimed at the custom home builder so it covers quite an array of subject matter. Regular $34.95 Now $29.95