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  Includes digital plan. A classic cabinet with heirloom potential. In this lesson-packed video, Fine Woodworking's Michal Pekovich demonstrates the key skills and techniques required to build this authentic oak cabinet, including lessons on crafting tight-fitting, blowout-free through-mortise-and-tenon joinery, how to execute a classic ammonia-fumed finish and more.

• JOINTS: A WOODWORKERS GUIDE

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  The botany, history, healing, and lore of trees. Genera from aspen to willow are captured in 70 dramatic photographs that illustrate their brilliant seasonal transformations. 50 different types of trees are presented and each described by way of botanical qualities, medicinal uses, magical associations, cultural uses, and much more. Quite interesting.

• THE HOMEOWNER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING A RENOVATION

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  Major home remodeling isn’t for the faint of heart; there is huge potential for design problems, cost overruns, or just unsatisfactory workmanship. Here, a professional construction manager who masterminded the redesign at New York’s famed Avery Fisher Hall as well as a massive institute-wide renovation of St. Luke’s Hospital, offers an indispensable guide for homeowners who need to manage a large-scale renovation. There’s advice on how to articulate your thoughts clearly to designers, architects, and contractors; tips on negotiating contracts; suggestions for protecting yourself from legal and financial threats; and help understanding warranty claims. Each step—from initial planning through the completed project—is covered in layman’s terms, and sample contracts, floor plans, cost estimating worksheets and other forms are provided.