This vintage book contains a course of woodworking exercises, together with a short treatise on wood, designed for manual training classes in schools and colleges.
This vintage volume contains a complete guide to building kitchen cabinets, with simple instructions, working drawings, and lists of materials for the eleven most popular styles, in sizes to suit any kitchen.
This vintage handbook provides practical instructions in the art of wood finishing techniques, including French Polishing, staining, waxing, oiling and repairing and restoration methods.
This vintage book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the craft of marquetry - a decorative work made from inlaid wood and veneer to form patterns or pictures.
This text contains a comprehensive guide to fixing vintage furniture, with information on fixing perforated seats, repairing spoon back chairs, and much more besides.
Chintz' was originally glazed calico textiles, initially specifically those imported from India, printed with designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours, typically on a light plain background.
Furniture repair is work of universal interest and importance, for it would be safe to say that there is scarcely a home to be found that has not some useful article in need of repair.
Contained within this antique book is a comprehensive guide to finishing furniture, including information on spraying, and opaque and transparent finishes.
Contained within this antique book is a detailed catalogue of exquisite American antique sideboards and kitchen furniture, including sideboards from Hepplewhite, Sheraton, and in the Empire style.
This text contains a detailed, illustrated catalogue of some of Thomas Chippendale's most notable furniture designs, coupled with an informative and fascinating biography of the famous cabinet-maker.
This book deals in non-technical language with everything that the average handyman will need to know about the staining and French polishing of various woods.
Buckinghamshire's reputation for furniture-making goes back to the seventeenth century - for Daniel Defoe mentions chair making in the Chilterns, and High Wycombe has been the acknowledged centre for more than a century and a quarter.
This antique text contains a comprehensive treatise on the equipment and machinery of dairy farming, including information on milking, separating, sterilising and other mechanical aspects of dairy production.
This antiquarian text contains a introductory guide to woodworking on the farm, with information on trees and lumber, tools, sawing, framing, and various other aspects of farm carpentry.
This antique book contains a detailed guide on modes of heating in horticulture and agriculture, with information on green-houses, glass and glazing, flues, steam, hot beds, and much more.
This book comprises a handy little guide on maintaining a farm workshop, with information on the tools and buildings required for a productive workshop.
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to carpentry workshop practice, being a complete handbook designed for students, apprentices, mechanics, and others who could benefit from training in woodwork.
Look over the shoulder of a world-renowned bird carver as he creates his most challenging piece A behind-the-scenes look at how Floyd Scholz creates one of his most ambitious pieces--a life-size golden eagle in flight.
Revised and expanded, with new full-color photographs Steps for planning and locating a fence, setting posts, creating infill, and attaching gates Techniques for building the fence you want Advice on tools, materials, foundations, and special features Easy-to-use patterns Foldout of full-size pickets 130 designs included
This is a practical handbook to the construction of cabinet furniture, with information on the use of tools, formation of joints, hints on designing and setting out work, veneering, and other related aspects.
This book contains a classic article on treating wooden poles with preservative finishes, and includes information on tools, technique, common problems, and other related aspects.
This vintage book is a detailed and informative guide for woodworkers and craftsmen in the practice of designing and constructing garden furniture and is of great practical use today for anyone with an interest in carpentry.
This vintage book contains a complete guide to staining and polishing wood, with information on enamelling, varnishing, and other methods of finishing.
This early book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the fundamentals of the craft of woodturning using a traditional lathe, and is a must-have for any woodworking or wood-craft practitioner or enthusiast.
Illustrated with useful diagrams, this unusual guide provides practical instructions to build several traditional outdoor play aid for children, including the classic roundabout, helter skelter and toboggan.
Explore the craft of wood carving with the definitive introductory guide, Wood Carving for Beginners by master craftsman and acclaimed technical writer Charles H.
This volume contains a practical handbook on the construction of cabinet furniture, with detailed information on the use of tools and numerous recipes for making polishes, varnishes, glaze-lacquers, and revivers.
