1 comments about Children's Furniture (Building & Craft).

1. This book is so outdated... It was written in the 80's and the furniture is totally outfashioned. Don't bother to buy it!

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1 comments about Woodworking: The Complete Step-by-step Guide To Skills, Techniques, 41 Projects.

1. "Woodworking: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Skills, Techniques, Projects" is a 448-page compendium of practical carpenter techniques and 'how to' instructions that are supplemented with more than a thousand photographs, illustrations and diagrams. Carpentry students, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, and apprentice woodworkers are provided with more than forty woodworking projects for home accessories, home furnishings, outdoor projects, and workshop projects that range from the construction of a mantel clock to the building of a formal bookcase, to a kid-size picnic table. In addition to an informed and informative introduction to various woods, aspiring woodworkers are shown how to set up their carpentry shop; design woodworking projects; squaring, marking and cutting stock; making joints and assembling projects, and applying finishes. A comprehensive manual that can quite justifiably be considered to be a complete workshop in woodworking in a single 'user friendly' volume, "Woodworking" is confidently recommended to personal, professional, school, and community library Woodworking & Carpentry reference collections.

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1 comments about Sharpening and Knife Making.

1. Although it is difficult subject matter to address solely with the written word, sharpening skill can be transfered by the visual information provided while watching an experienced hand doing the work. This seems to have been the thesis of the people involved in the production of this tome. "Still" pictures, however, do a poor job of relating the ways to control the edge angle (very important to sharpening) as the grinding proceeds, although pictures do reveal a well ground edge. While it is easy to see from the evidence presented here that the man in the pictures is indeed getting very sharp tools as a result of his efforts, the way to arrive at those results yourself is not well illuminated. This is when a few well chosen bits of verbage can make the critical difference in transfering the skill to the student. Written instructions are almost nonexsistent in this book. Overall, I would say that the wrong type of camera was used in this production; had a Video been made instead of a book (allowing for a running commentary, instead of sparse written instructions), I may well have been able to give more stars.

1 comments about Veneering Handbook.

1. So far this is the only book I've seen that provides the kind of advice I, as a small workshop user, am seeking on veneering. I haven't worked on veneering before, but do like to do things well. Hosker is aimed at hand-applied techniques and for this provides a lot of useful detail (on applications etc) and context (on wood behaviour etc), and has plenty of illustrations. He reviews a number of application methods, although seems unaware of the technique of ironing dried PVA, (as detailed in a free online 83p PDF book, "Preparing and Applying Decorative Wood Veneers and Inlays to Substrates" by the Decorative Wood Veneers Association in Australia, a very worthwhile publication to look up). Also absent is any discussion of urea formaldehyde use. Therefore there is no "pros and cons" discussion on these options. I noted that in regard to hammer veneering with animal glue, Hosker isn't as quite as complete as Tage Frid's old article in Fine Woodworking. It is still a useful book, especially since there aren't too many veneering books that seem to be aimed at the informed small workshop user. He doesn't venture into vacuum presses or large commercial presses, a good thing in my view: those approaches are best treated elsewhere. But I'm still waiting for a truly comprehensive up-to-date illustrated treatment of manual technique for furniture veneering (rather than marquetry) for small workshop users.

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1 comments about Making Rustic Originals: Turning Furniture Finds into Folk Art.

1. I love this book, have made several items using the instructions in this book. Easy to understand and tons of great ideas.