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• FOR PROS BY PROS: ROOFING, FLASHING & WATERPROOFING

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  The best articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine that give step-by-step guidance from hands on experts. Includes trade secrets, new techniques, and time-saving tips. The book presents the basic principles you need to know to waterproof residential structures.

• THE WOOD EXPLORER CD, Version 2.0

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  Information packed cd that installs a database of 1650+ woods to your computer for fast and easy access. Designed for ease-of-use and searchability. Includes 2000+ full-color wood scans, full mechanical details, and the ability to input your own woods and information. A truly remarkable encyclopedia of wood and tree information. Works on Windows, Mac, and Unix. Includes 1 year free membership to the Wood Explorer website and community.

• FINE WOODWORKING BEST WORKBENCHES

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  Is it possible to create the perfect workbench? The answer is yes, with Fine Woodworking Best Workbenches, a collection of the best articles on the subject from America’s premier woodworking magazine. Filled with focused advice on how to choose and customize a workbench, this book will prove invaluable to woodworkers of all skill levels. Whether you’re looking for a quick and easy workstation that will handle 90% of what you need or a no-compromise workbench that will function flawlessly for decades, or you just want to soup up an existing or ready-made workbench, this indispensible reference book offers the best projects and designs, ranging from traditional to special-purpose workbenches and those sporting the latest innovations and hardware.

• 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks

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  What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine sets himself the challenge of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You get 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively simple?yet gracefully elegant?boxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build. Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book: •how to match grain at corners •how to cut miters •how to make tops and bottoms •how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now). Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic. And then, of course, the book transitions to instructions on designing and building the boxes themselves.

• VICTORIAN FRET-WORK AND WOOD CARVING: PATTERNS AND INSTRUCTIONS

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  Reprinted from the 1877 ed., this is a practical guide of timeless information featuring 67 designs for creating monograms, inscriptions, florals, vines, animal forms, and more. Contains advice on enlarging and reducing patterns, damage repair, selecting necessary tools and appropriate woods, tracing and transferring patterns, oiling, staining, varnishing, carving in relief, fret-cutting, and other popular techniques.

• Woodcarving Book 1: Basic Techniques

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  Features 17 quick and easy to carve projects for beginners. Each project has been chosen to introduce new techniques. Norbury covers the techniques of carving in the round, chip carving, and relief carving, as well as knife work, and working with burrs and rasps. The projects are small, useful, and fun to make and most can be completed in a few days or over a weekend.