The Complete Idiot s Guide to Woodworking 1st Edition by Reed Karen, Alpha Group ISBN 9780028632377 0028632370

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ISBN 10:0028632370

ISBN 13: 9780028632377

Author:  Reed Karen, Alpha Group

Explains essential woodworking techniques, discusses tools and supplies, and includes safety tips.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Getting Real About Woodworking

1

Basics The Shop, the Shopping, and the Skills

Figure out your goals, priorities, budget, and where to set up shop. Here’s what you need and what you can live withoud.

2

I Need My Space: Setting Up Shop

We’d all like more space; here’s how to make the most of what you have, including three strategies for organizing your work area.

3 A Workshop That Works

Before the machines arrive, you need to furnish your shop by picking out a workbench, sorting out a tool cabinet, and stabling the sawhorsex.

Part 2: The Tools: The Work They Do and How to Work Them

4

Your Hand Tool Arsenal The Cutters

This guide to chisels, planes, rasps, and files explains how to tell them apart, use them, and care for them.

5

Hand Tools for Measuring, Marking, and Other Basics

Carrying on where Chapter 4 left off, this chapter explains the other tools in your kit

6

Feel the Power: Portable Power Tools

This introduction to the wonderful world of drills, circular saws, sanders, and routers explains how to handle the power safely.

7 The Big Machines: Stationary Power Tools

Graduate to the big leagues with this guide to the tools that really make a shop a shop. These machines turn rough lumber into finely milled legs and stretchers.

8 Keeping Your Edge

Get your tools razor sharp and keep them that way.

Part 3: The Word on Wood

9 Wood’s Wild Ways

Wood is a natural material and must be treated accordingly. Learn how its natural origins affect you in the workshop.

10 The Subtle Art of Buying Solid Wood

Learn what it takes to navigate the lamberyard with confidence in this guide to picking boards.

11 The Sawmill: Where Trees Become Lumber

The sawmill determines what your lumber will look like, and the drying process can make or ruin your day

12

Plywood The Engineered Natural Material

Plywood can make your life a lot easier. Here’s why.

13

Words to the Wise About Storing Wood

You can easily ruin good lumber and plywood by storing it badly. Here’s a guide to keeping your wood high and dry.

Part 4: Putting It All Together: Means and Methods

14

All About Adhesives

Get your parts together and keep them that way.

15

Frame Joins The Skeleton as a Model

Nothing defines woodworking like a well-cut joint. This chapter looks at mortise-and-tenon joints, spline joints, dowel joints, and other frame joints.

16

Carcass Joinery: The Box as a Model

This chapter picks up joinery where the last left off and explains the other category of joinery: box joints.

17

Nails, Screws, and Bolts: When It’s Okay to Use Fasteners

So many screws, so little time. This chapter looks at the myriad types of screws, nails, and bolts and explains how to choose and use them.

18

Doors and More Doors

Doors and drawers are the trickiest characters in woodworking because they work mechanically. This chapter shows you the ropes.

19

The Ins and Outs of Drawer-Making

This chapter explains how to make drawers that close as effortlessly as they open.

20

Edgings and Moldings: The Last Details

These simple details can make your project come alive. Here’s how they work, how to buy them, and how to make your own.

Part 5: From Principles to Practice

21 Plan It on Paper: Drawings, Cut-Lists, and Procedure Lists

These simple organizational tools keep your head above the maze and prevent problems and mistakes before they materialize.

22

Milling: How to Make Parts That Fit

This step-by-step guide to the parts-making process explains how to cut out your parts so they resemble the ones on the drawing.

23

How the Parts Become a Carcass

Now it’s time to round ap those parts, get them ready, and glue them together. This chapter will help you keep your glue-up from becoming a fiasco.

24

Woodworking Art: Tabletops and Other Flat Surfaces Grain patterns can make or break a tabletop or panel. This chapter walks you through the aesthetic and technical steps to making a tabletop.

25

The Well-Hung Frame-and-Panel Door A detailed guide to every stage of making and hanging a frame-and-panel door. You learn about hinges, panel profiles, and how to use grain patterns to give your door a sense of unity.

Part 6: The Finishing Touch

26

A Fill-In on Finishing

This short history of finishing introduces the cast of players and explains their characteristics.

27

Choosing Finishes: Knowing Fact from Fiction This in-depth look at the pros and cons of the various finishes explains how to choose the right one for the job at hand. It also looks at stains and fillem

28

Surface Prep Groundwork for a Great Finish If the surface isn’t right, the finish won’t be. Learn about the different sandpapers and other abrasives and how to get this onerous task over and done with quickly.

29

Let’s Get It On!: Applying Finish Step by Step There are different strokes for different folks. Each finish is applied differently, here’s a guide to all of them.

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