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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47500 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .42" h x 9.17" w x 10.78" l, 1.42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781561585939
• Condition: New
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About the Author
Doug Stowe is a professional furniture designer and box maker. He is the author of 5 books including Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making, Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques, Simply Beautiful Boxes, and Making Elegant Custom Tables. He also writes for Fine Woodworking and Woodwork magazines. In 2001 he started a pre-K through 12th grade woodworking program called "Wisdom of the Hands", recognizing the importance of hands-on learning for all children.

Customer Reviews

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109 of 113 people found the following review helpful.
No Comparison
By Mr Joel Mason
When I started making boxes, a friend of mine gave me a copy of David Freedman's book Box-Making Basics. That book contains photographs of a variety of boxes, has large line drawings to illustrate details, has precise measurements for each box, and has a numbered step-by-step procedure for making each box. That book enabled me to make several of the boxes in the book with relative ease. Stowe's book, on the other hand, really disappointed me. Although it has colored photographs of the boxes, they are so small that it's difficult to see what's going on in them. His procedures for actually building the boxes are way too general for me to follow. In a couple of sentences, he attempts to describe five or six procedures at a time. He has no dimensions for any of the boxes. There are no line drawings to further illustrate what he's trying to show in the tiny photographs. If I had used this book when I first started making boxes, I probably would have built book cases instead.

53 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
More Taunton product
By harry11733
This is a superfluous book. It is an essentially contextless version of another book written by the same author "Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques". The book provides very detailed descriptions of a large number of woodworking procedures but does not put them into the context of any particular project. It is a grab bag of procedures rather than a thoroughly worked out tutorial or set of projects. The primary value for this particular book is as a companion to "Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques", which lacks some critical details, some of which can be found in this volume.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A Well Written and Complete Guide
By Scott Pointon
When Taunton bills this book as "The Complete Guide..." they are not kidding. As a huge fan of the Taunton Press and of this series, I was prepared for all of the great detail that this book offers. I especially appreciated the organization of the book. All of the major components of a box, the joinery, the lid, the base and feet, hinges & hardware, and the interior all get detailed treatment within their own chapters.

My only complaint is that as a moderately skilled woodworker, I wasn't prepared for the over-simplistic first two chapters. Maybe I am being too critical, but to me it doesn't seem likely that most who are interested in box building would need information like "Tools for box building" and "Box making materials." In other words, if a person doesn't already have a shop and a basic collection of tools, they should not be starting with this book and thus why include this woodworking beginner information?

That is a minor irritation though. Overall this book is an excellent resource on the subject and it is deserved of Taunton's reputation for excellence. Highly recommended to all woodworkers interested in box building.