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• NEW BEST OF FWW: WORKING WITH HANDPLANES

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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

• Scroll Saw Portraits: How to Turn Photographs- OOP

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  How to turn a photograph of a loved one, pet, or movie star into a strikingly accurate portrait in wood is detailed in this woodcutting workbook. Guiding readers through converting an image via computer into a woodcutting pattern, this book provides strategies for creating a wood portrait that maintains the essential attributes of the original subject. Tips are provided for investing in computer software, finishing and framing a portrait, and cutting a piece without weakening the wood. This second edition charts current advances in software and provides fascinating patterns of many famous faces for readers who do not wish to design their own.

• NEW BEST OF FWW: WORKSHOP MACHINES

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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

• A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS

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  This was one of the most influential books on tools and had an impact on the current interest in tool collecting. There are over 180 pen and ink drawings by the author. Originally published in 1964, Sloane illustrates the uses of many of the tools and covers such diverse crafts as logging, carpentry, wheelmaking, tanning, splitting, tools with legs and much more.

• Woodshop Lust: OOP

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  Every woodworker likes to show off his own workshop as well as see the shops of other woodworkers - it's almost an obsession. Woodshop Lust offers readers a voyeuristic tour into the woodshops of average and not-so-average woodworkers along with full-color photos and commentary from each shop owner. Readers will not be able to resist peeking at these workshops to not only see how other woodworkers work and the type of projects they create but also what tools they use and what jigs they have made.

• QUICK AND EASY JIGS AND FIXTURES

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  Nearly two dozen jig and fixture designs for a range of popular tools, from table saws to drill presses. There is a special section filled with trade secrets and shortcuts for running a better shop. Includes basic plans and most of these jigs and fixtures do not require new materials. Most can be made from scrap lumber.