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• SMALL AND MINIATURE TURNING: A Complete Guide

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  A thorough introduction, covering both miniature objects (scaled down reproductions of full-sized works) and small turnings. Includes how to season and store wood, choose the appropriate tools, make some tools, in short, everything you need to know to get started.

• Fantasy & Legend Scroll Saw Puzzles: Patterns & Instructions for Dragons, Wizard

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  Includes tips, techniques, 2 step-by-steps and 25 ready-to-cut patterns including dragons, unicorns, mermaids and mythological creatures. Mythical creatures such as dragons and gargoyles, unicorns and mermaids, and griffins and hydras come alive in this guide to scroll saw puzzles. Each puzzle interlocks and can stand on its own. Step-by-step instructions, detailed guidance on getting started, and tips on wood selection, sanding, and finishing ensure success for all woodworkers. Simple patterns include a centaur and a hatchling; medium difficulty patterns include a unicorn and gargoyles; and patterns for experienced scrollers include a green man, an imperial dragon, and a phoenix.

• Bird Decoys of North America: Nature, History, and Art-NS

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  Bird decoys, which were first fashioned by Native American hunter-artists at least 1,500 years ago, are the only major folk art form to originate in North America. Today, decoys made during the heyday of decoy carving--roughly from 1840 to 1950--rank among the most avidly sought of all folk art collectibles, with some rare and outstanding examples fetching upwards of $8000,000 apiece at auction. These humble hunting tools, intended to deceive wildfowl by luring them into shooters' range, are now appreciated on many levels: as compelling works of sculpture, as exacting portraits of living and extinct species, and as irreplaceable historical objects. Successful decoy carvers of the past knew their prey intimately--spending countless hours observing game birds in the wild and then bringing their accumulated knowledge of different species' appearance and behavior to the carving bench. Because the works these artisans created were meant to attract avian eyes--conveying the essence of a bird's plumage, form, and attitude at a glance--older handmade decoys are deeply observed symbols of living birds that no merely decorative object, no matter how photographically accurate, can match. In this definitive, lavishly illustrated work, folk-art expert Robert Shaw chronicles the now-vanished era in which the great decoy makers pursued their craft. Shaw traces the natural history of North American bird species--more than sixty of which are represented in antique decoys. He relates the history of wildfowl hunting on this continent, detailing the excesses of nineteenth-century commercial hunting and the rise of a conservation movement aimed at ensuring bird species' long-term survival. He examines the distinctive forms produced in each major hunting area, from the Maritime Provinces of Canada to the Chesapeake Bay to the bayous of Louisiana and beyond. And, with a storyteller's gift for the entertaining anecdote, Shaw puts us in touch with the lives and circumstances of the decoy makers themselves.

• DOORS OF THE WORLD

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  From a sandstone portal in Morocco to a bamboo-lined aperture in China, an exploration of door forms in vivid color. The authors capture the sheer variety of entryways worldwide, and show the harmony achieved by their diverse proportions, designs, materials, and colors and discloses how doors reflect geography.

• PLUMBING BASICS

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  Solve emergencies such as backed up drains, sinks and toilets. Learn to repair faucets, sinks and toilets. Working with PVC or CPVC as well as copper, and galvanized. Includes instructions for completing a range of plumbing jobs. Basic plumbing for the homeowner.

• THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED G/T SHARPENING (PB)

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  This step-by-step reference provides quick access for learning this essential woodworking process. More than 750 photos and drawings illustrate the equipment available for sharpening and the methods for getting sharp edges on all types of tools -- from basic chisels to molding planes and jointer knives. Among the subjects covered: •Choosing a sharpening system •Sharpening planes and saws •Touching up blades and bits •Shaping turning gouges •Honing carving tools