Woodworker's Complete Reference Guide

The ultimate step-by-step guide to essential woodworking skills, techniques, tools, tips, and secrets from the expert.

• More than 500 Illustrations,

• Step By Step Examples,

• Facts, formulas, short-cuts,

• Many charts, formulas, tables,

• Includes both mathematical calculations + No math rules of thumb,

• Tools and techniques,

• Furniture design,

• Adhesives, Fasteners, Sharpening, Finishing,

• Size and measurements,

• and many many more throughout 320 pages of wealth of information...

This complete woodworking manual is a detailed reference guide, encompassing the whole art and craft of woodworking, for the beginner and expert. It includes a discussion of all the principal hardwoods and softwoods, how to choose and use hand tools, detailed information on every woodworking technique such as jointing, sharpening, fastening, finishing and much more.

This DIY reference guide book is packed with answers to all of your woodworking questions in both an easy to read and a quick to find format. Whether you are a woodworking professional or a hobbyist, you will find everything you need to know in this complete reference guide.

It is filled with information for woodworkers of all levels, regarding facts, formulas and short-cuts, designing furniture, hand tools, power tools, sharpening, finishing, fasteners, joints, adhesives, suppliers, woods and manufactured woods, rules of thumb, safety and much more.

The facts, formulas, figures and short-cuts that are important to every woodworker, are given in an easy to understand format. Many charts and formulas, shop geometry, and conversion tables are all available to refresh your mind.

When you find yourself searching for information in your workshop, you can be sure that this is the book that will put all the information you need to know right at your fingertips.

One of the many valuable aspects of this book is that in addition to mathematical solutions, this book also includes the rule of thumb answers. Nearly all of the woodworking operations require a fact or a calculation. Whether you want to solve workshop problems by using math, or if you are not comfortable making calculations and want to follow a simple rule of thumb, this is the right reference guide book you need to own.

Just a few of the chapters in this book include:

• Including the basics, the nature of wood, types, hardwoods, softwoods, along with manufactured woods such as soft and hard plywoods, hardboard and MDF.
• Detailed information on measuring wood, lumber grades and sizes, lumber grade stamps, pressure treated lumbers, hardness, wood moisture content, wood shrinkage and others.
• The tools required.
• Sharpening.
• Fasteners.
• The principles of three-dimensional design, from inspiration to methods of construction.
• Everything about furniture design. Skills and techniques a woodworker requires. Standard furniture dimensions.
• Drawing plans from pictures, enlarging and reducing, drawing to scale, drawing projections.
• Story poles, stairs, shelf loads.
• Clamps and Pressure.
• Step-by-step illustrations demonstrating how to make jigs and joints.
• Common woodworking joints, joinery design rules.
• Major crafts are given with detailed coverage with the same step-by-step approach.
• Proportions and the golden ratio.
• Size and measurements.
• Many charts and formulas, shop geometry, and conversion tables.
• Determining room perimeter and room area.
• Equal spacing, how to calculate baluster and slat spacing are given with many illustrated examples and different methods.
• Glueas and Adhesives.
• Everything about fasteners, screws and many more.
• Applying finishes.
• Bevels and Miters. Crown Molding.
• Expert advice on safety, general Safety rules, and everything about safety in the workshop.
• Also includes a wide suppliers list.
• and many many more throughout 320 pages of wealth of information...

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