DIY: carpentry and woodworking

Ever dreamed of having your very own garden retreat?

Master key carpentry skills, from simple joinery techniques to fine woodworking.

With their classic barns and fences, American small farms, and the buildings that support these farms, serve a much-needed purpose as much today as they have in the past.

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.

Describes the sand foundry, the characteristics of molding sand, the types of mold and pattern making equipment, and the various sand casting procedures for forming metals.

As children, many people dreamed of having a tree house, a place where they could get away to play and relax.

This fascinating book contains a detailed and easy-to-follow guide to designing and constructing doors and door frames for the home.

This vintage book is a comprehensive and accessible manual for building dolls houses and furniture.

Fascinatingly Fun, Family-Friendly Steampunk Projects"e;Here s a Steampunk tale with an invitation to build Steampunk props.

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.

Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks.

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood the material that shaped human history.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to staining and polishing wood, with information on enamelling, varnishing, and other methods of finishing.

20 projects using reclaimed timber.

This book contains a lovely little guide to designing and constructing wooden garden furniture and accessories, including information on collecting and mounting moths and butterflies.

The art of caring for the things you love .

This is a classic guide to woodworking that focuses on making a variety of cabinets and similar items of household furniture.

Rustic meets modern with the charming DIY guide, Wood Pallet Wonders.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to wood finishing, with information on methods, materials, and tools for natural, stained, varnished, waxed, oiled, enamelled, and painted finishes.

Whether you're just getting started at the lathe or you're a seasoned woodturner looking for fresh insight, you'll find it all in the AAW Official Guide, "e;Getting Started in Woodturning"e;, an essential reference of safety information, tool advice, woodturning techniques, and practical projects from the pages of American Woodturner, the journal from the American Association of Woodturners (AAW).

This Old House meets Waynes World in this zany guide to designing and building tiny homesDerek Diedricksen has always had a love for small, modest houses ever since his father gave him the book Tiny Tiny Houses by Lester Walker for his tenth birthday.

This book contains a lovely collection of fretwork patterns.

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Whether you're just getting started at the lathe or you're a seasoned woodturner looking for fresh insight, you'll find it all in the AAW Official Guide, "e;Getting Started in Woodturning"e;, an essential reference of safety information, tool advice, woodturning techniques, and practical projects from the pages of American Woodturner, the journal from the American Association of Woodturners (AAW).

This text contains a comprehensive guide to furniture making, including information on making tables, chairs, bookshelves, sideboards, chests, and much more.

For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America.

Hand carving is easy, satisfying and therapeutic when guided by Max Bainbridge.

Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft.

In a world without wood, we might not be here at all.

Contained within this book is a comprehensive guide to making chairs, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and a wealth of helpful information on tools, technique, and materials.

This new technical handbook shows woodworkers exactly how to approach the complex job of designing and making built-in cabinets for kitchens, family rooms, and home offices.

"e;Picture Frame making for Amateurs"e; is a detailed, step-by-step guide, including chapters on the necessary tools and how to use them, the different materials that can be used, common problems, and much more.

Timber!

"e;Nothing could be more American than the simple cabin.

This antique text comprises a detailed guide pertaining to the construction of bird cages for use inside the home.

This early work on wood carving is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

With The Woodwright's Companion, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "e;how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.

This vintage book is detailed instructions for the making of dolls house furniture and accessories.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks.

Can you sew on a button?

Ty Pennington shares stories from his life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite home shows!

'It is more motivating to make something that you genuinely desire, to create an object that you want in your home.

Your go-to guide for getting started with whittling!

The way you design your home says just as much about you as the clothes you wear.