DIY: carpentry and woodworking

This book contains a detailed treatise on wood carving, including practical tips for amateurs, and a short history of the art.

Originally published in early 1900s.

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

This book contains a practical guide for the amateur in carpentry, lathe working, joinery, ornamental woodwork, the use of tools, and the selection of timber.

Cassell's Carpentry and Joinery' is a practical work on practical handicrafts, and it was first published in the confident belief that it was by far the most exhaustive book on these subjects hitherto produced.

This vintage book contains comprehensive instructions for designing and constructing a range of furniture from simple footstools to ornate folding tables.

This book contains a vintage guide to furniture arrangement and interior deign.

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.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to upholstery, with information on leather, silk, plush, reps, cottons, velvets, carpetings, stuffing, embossing, welting, and covering all kinds of household furniture.

How to Build Your Own Bentwood Chair is an introductory guide for those who want to master the art of rustic furniture making and learn how to sell their creations, either as a hobby or full time business.

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 is a practical instruction book in the art of decorating woodwork, with information on veneering, marquetry, and inlay.

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

This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to cooperage, being an accessible treatise on proper workshop practice and methods.

This classic handbook provides a wealth of information on traditional fabrics used in upholstery.

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

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.

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

Turn simple shipping pallets into stunning crafts for your home!

The Everything Woodworking Book is an essential guide for tapping into the exciting world of woodcraft.

Woodworking for Everyone will inspire you to create practical and stylish furniture for your home.

Woodworking for Everyone will inspire you to create practical and stylish furniture for your home.

A Step-by-Step Photographic Guide, in eBook format Whether you want to build your own bed or put a bookshelf together, find out how to tackle your chosen woodwork task with confidence, using this step-by-step guide.

Have you always wanted to transform your house into the home of your dreams but you're not sure where to begin?

This volume offers the reader a series of lessons on wood-carving, designed specially for beginners and students.

You've seen a few shows on TV, and working with wood looks like it could be quite entertaining and rewarding.

In this beautifully compiled book, Charlie Whinney, the UK's leading expert on the topic, shares the secrets of the unique and magical craft of steam-bending.

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

Whether building a bee hotel to help your garden's ecosystem thrive, crafting a catapult, whistle, skipping rope or cup and ball game to give away, or making a key hook or cobweb brush to organise your home, the result of each will be entirely unique while also effortlessly stylish.

This book teaches the aspiring crafter everything you would need to know about knitting in step-by-step projects.

An avid outdoorsman, Pringle began carving decoys in 1898 and in 1928 set himself the goal of producing the best rig of decoys in the world.

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.

Excellently framed and designed, with bold, receding arches, the open timber roofs of the medieval period featured massive moldings, carved timbers, and intricate tracery.

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

Bestselling author Kumiko Sudo creates 45 exquisite handmade gifts in fabric, each with a flair that is uniquely Japanese.

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.

From the acknowledged master of the "e;instant boat"e;-tips, techniques, and designs for quick-and-easy plywood boatbuildingDynamite Payson offers you a new guide to building 15 exciting boats from master designer Phil Bolger.

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

Become a pro at living and thriving off the land.

There is something beautiful and nostalgic about wooden boats.

The first quick-and-easy composite construction method for canoes and kayaksThis book is certain to appeal to any paddler with a DIY bent.

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.

Shop Class as Soulcraft meets Norwegian Wood in this gorgeously illustrated DIY guide for aspiring woodworkers of all levels.

Timber!

A celebration of good craftsmanship by a Norwegian master carpenter - the anatomy of a job well done.

Bestselling Van Life author Foster Huntington shares his experiences - as well as others - living by his own rules in this aspirational book filled with awe-inspiring photographs of unique homes in unexpected places.