Product Description

This is the ultimate step-by-step guide to essential woodworking skills, techniques, tools, tips and tricks. From basic techniques to advanced methods, this easy-to-follow but fully comprehensive volume provides readers with all the information they need to know to become a master woodworker and have a home full of fine, handmade furnishings. "The Complete Guide to Woodworking" features detailed plans for 40 stunning projects for woodworkers of all levels, plus more than 1,200 step-by-step illustrations. It also includes expert information on setting-up a workshop, safety, how to use and look after tools, and much more. For beginners and experience woodworkers alike, this is the ultimate step-by-step guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329846 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .97" h x 8.32" w x 10.78" l, 3.19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
"If you are going to buy only one woodworking book, this should be it. Recommended for every public library." -- Unkown "Library Journal"

About the Author
Tom Carpenter lives in Minnetonka, MN.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Everything you wanted to know about woodworking and 40 projects
By Barbara Rhoades
480 pages later, I now know everything there is to know about woodworking. Well, not quite but this book gives a very detailed insight into the right way to do woodworking.

From setting up a shop to actually making an object and everything in between, this book guides you through all the steps to getting it right beginning with the all important SAFETY issues in the shop and moving on to types of woods. It continues with squaring up and cutting the wood (stock) and then goes into types of joints. It explains how and when a router can be used and how to create a few jigs.

Ever wonder how the handmade furniture gets that really GREAT glossy finish? There is a chapter on that. Need a cutting board for a gift, a book case, a birdhouse or a utility cabinet for your shop? These are only a four of the 40 projects provided. Simple to complex, choose which project you want to start with (after thoroughly reading the book, of course!) and have fun with wood.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Great book!!!!
By B. Hrycko
This is a great book full of very useful information. I am a beginner and this book was easy to follow. It is about 480 pages with 150 pages of reference and the rest of nice project plans, pictures and tips.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I'm a beginner
By Boba Chux
I know steel, I know cement, and I don't know jack about wood, other than making cement forms. This book was a wonderful resource for the beginner & laymen. It definitely got my cogs turning and great for ideas and general resource about wood type, joiner, cuts, tools/ jigs & saws, plans for some projects, drawing/ planning, and everything under the sun. I hate putting together the overpriced furniture from a store that falls apart, dings, or damages and really is a cheaply made hunk of garbage. My stuff isn't great as I'm just starting, but it actually looks pretty good compared wally-world junk, all with the guidance from Mr. Carpenter. Truly a great book and a nice read, similar to Julia Child style cookbook not just ingredients and direction cookbook.