The Woodworkers Visual Handbook: From Standards to Styles, from Tools to Techniques: The Ultimate Guide to Every Phase of Woodworking

by Jon Arno

Book Overview

Shows and describes hand tools, power tools, lumber, joinery, cabinetmaking techniques, hardware, jigs, and finishing techniques, and looks at furniture design and styles. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875966527
• ISBN13: 9780875966526
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

certainly not professional information but, ...

As noted in another review, I am not sure this would qualify as professional information. I am by no stretch of the imagination a professional woodworker! That said, this book does have a place in my library and I pick it up quite often as a supplement to my on the job training in woodworking. I feel it is meant to be more of a reference guide more than anything. The book highlights many of the popular joints, wood species and there uses, useful terminology (it has helped me not to sound like a babbling fool at the hardware and lumber store), and it also contains reference dimensions for furniture chairs (given as suggestions, more than cold hard numbers. ie, "you must build a chair this tall") It also includes a few jigs and ideas to make around the shop (nothing new) Overall a good reference book. Don't expect to learn woodworking from it.