Woodworking Books

Outdoor Wood Projects
by Steve Cory

Create something to show for your weekend! If you’re looking for projects that you can start and finish in just a weekend’s time, look no further than Outdoor Wood Projects. This collection of 24 projects for the backyard and garden can be completed with basic DIY tooling, inexpensive materials, and beginner skills. Perfect for basic woodworkers and just right for anyone more experienced who wants a “filler” project.

Put your stamp on your outdoor space. Why compromise with mass merchandise when you can make your own? With Outdoor Wood Projects you can create exactly what you need. Though quick and inexpensive to build, the projects in this collection will enhance your garden and backyard for years to come, including:

• a window box with corbels
• an Adirondack chair and ottoman
• a strawberry pyramid
• a compost bin a trellis with cutouts
• and many more!

Chests and Cabinets
Editors of Fine Woodworking

18 projects in all styles. The styles vary widely ensuring something for everyone's taste. You'll find just the storage project you are looking for.

The comprehensive woodworking sourcebook. Finally the best casework projects from America's foremost woodworking magazine are assembled in one book, Chests and Cabinets. For years woodworkers, seeking the finest woodworking projects, have turned to Fine Woodworking magazine, FineWoodworking.com, and Fine Woodworking-branded digital and print plans to create exquisite furniture projects. Now you can have expert information, guidance, and instruction all in one book! Step-by-step instruction. Through clear instruction, fine detailed working drawings, and hundreds of beautiful photographs guide you through projects from start to finish with:

• Hard-to-find, practical advice
• Expert instruction for building a wide range of storage projects
• Information and inspiration for all styles from Shaker to Modern designs

Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture
by Robert W. Lang

Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised Edition is a complete sourcebook of working shop drawings for 61 classic pieces of American furniture. Whether known as Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, or Mission, these sturdy, straightforward and immensely popular designs have graced American homes for more than 100 years. The author, a master cabinetmaker, measured original Craftsman antiques to create these detailed plans. This revised edition is compiled from three of his previous books: Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture; Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware; and More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture. Every type of furniture is represented here: from trestle tables, love seats, and nightstands to corner cabinets, rockers, tabourets and more. With perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists, this book gives woodworkers the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic, along with all the information needed for workshop success.

Easy-To-Build Bookcases & Clutter Control Projects

Build it. Use it.

Use your woodworking skills to create practical storage solutions for your home. From CD cases and end tables to potting benches and more, you will find projects to organize nearly every room of the house. And, the best part each of the 18 easy-to-build projects comes complete with a full-size pattern!

Geared toward the advanced beginner, each project includes material and supply lists and is presented in an easy-to-follow format. Readers will build their skills and their confidence level by following step-by-step instructions complete with full-color photographs and concise instructional captions. Included with each project is a full-size pattern.

The projects in this book are compiled from the pages of Weekend Woodcrafts magazine a monthly magazine that has been bringing practical woodworking projects to their readers for over 10 years. Woodworkers will simplify their lives with the projects in this book, and get the satisfaction of using what they make.

How to Make Bookshelves & Bookcases
by American Woodworkers

Many woodworkers "cut their teeth" on a bookshelf or bookcase project. They are useful, relatively easy to make, and, by building them yourself, you can design each one to fit your living space and the unique function it will serve.

How to Make Bookshelves and Bookcases offers a superb collection of 20 storage projects published by American Woodworker magazine. Each project provides step-by-step instructions, exploded diagrams, and a helpful cutting list to minimize waste and guarantee success. Best of all, you'll discover ingenious ideas and designs for making shelves stronger and more attractive.

Whether you've been woodworking for years, or are just getting started, these bookcases and bookshelves from American Woodworker will help reduce your clutter and stylishly organize your life.

American Country Furniture

Each project in this book is illustrated and explained using detailed drawings, materials lists, step-by-step instructions, and photo's for demonstrating special tips and techniques. In this book you will be walked through the assembly process after learning a short, brief history on how the piece of furniture was used and evolved over time.

Design Book Eight
by Scott Gibson

Design Book Eight features detailed descriptions of each piece, profiles of the craftsmen -- and lots of information about their creative process. Examples of high-quality custom and production furniture, this book showcases the finest tables, cabinets, chairs, bookcases, desks, and accessories being made today -- with 250 high-quality full color photos and 20 illustrations.

Designing and Building Chairs Book
by Fine Woodoworking

Most chairs are commercially made since many woodworkers shy away from making chairs. Granted, there are not too many square parts to most chairs, and compound angles can be intimidating. The articles in this book, should help dispel any questions you may have about chair building. You can make them better than the average commercially made models.

Furniture For All Around The House Book

These projects are selected from Taunton woodworking books. They appeal to woodworkers with a broad range of tastes, including Shaker, Arts & Crafts, and more. The projects, will help build skills while resulting in furniture worthy of passing down generations. Detailed step-by step instructions, complete working drawings, and cut lists are included.

Rustic Furniture Basic Book
by Doug Stowe

Here's an opportunity to create something truly unique by using old style woodworking techniques that are as "green" as it gets. By simply collecting branches and logs, recycled lumber, or scavenged wood from old buildings, you can build rustic furniture with a distinctive look -- and a primitive, earthy charm. Authored by Doug Stowe

Tables
by Anthony Guidice

Plans and complete instructions for building 10 classic tables From a Shaker sewing table to a display table for art objects, Tables offers 10 excellent reasons to spend quality time in the shop. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker, the projects offered by Anthony Giudice in this book will provide plenty of challenges to increase your skills. The table projects include a candle stand, an end table, a Shaker sewing table, two coffee tables, a display table, a half-round console table, a hall table, a cherry kitchen table, and a trestle table. You'll get: 10 classic projects from historic pieces to contemporary styles step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations design guidelines for creating your own tables numerous tips and jigs you can use for all your projects

In the Craftsman Style
by Fine Woodoworking

The Arts and Crafts style is simple enough to look good in almost any home and works with many types of furniture. Encompassing the Craftsman, Mission, Greene and Greene, and Stickley styles, this book gives readers detailed instructions for creating Arts and Crafts pieces at all levels. Step-by-step photographs and illustrations walk them through the process of building a classic Arts and Crafts chair, bookcase, sideboard, blanket chest, clock, and mantel, among other pieces. Photos of finished pieces provide additional inspiration.

Designing Furniture
by Fine Woodoworking

Designing a piece of furniture should be fun. Yet woodworkers who think nothing of building a complicated jig or mastering a difficult finish feel lost when it comes to designing a piece of furniture. The articles in this book will help you understand the basics of designing for both form and function and learn approaches to planning your designs for successful construction.

In this book you'll discover:

• Design inspiration - from Shaker to Arts & Crafts
• The four objectives of furniture design
• Drafting basics and how to create working drawings
• How to choose the best construction methods for your designs Models that help projects succeed
• Tips for designing graduated drawers, legs and aprons, doors
• Design strategies for coffee tables, sideboards, chests of drawers

Greene & Greene
by Darrell Peart

Design Elements for the Workshop

Considered among the highest achievements of the American arts and crafts movement, Greene & Greene furniture was custom-built for specific interior spaces, and many of the pieces still remain in their original locations. This manual, written by a nationally recognized furniture maker, provides intermediate and advanced woodworkers with well illustrated, step-by-step instructions for classic Greene & Greene details, including ebony plugs, cloud lifts, leg indents, brackets, and pulls. A discussion of the design philosophy of the period accompanies how-to chapters, and photographs of contemporary Greene-inspired furniture provide ideas for projects. Biographical sketches are included for Charles and Henry Greene, Peter and John Hall (who built most of the furniture), and competing furniture maker Gustav Stickley.

Desks, Bookcases, and Entertainment Centers
Woodworker's Journal

Now, with Desks, Bookcases & Entertainment Centers and the help of Woodworker's Journal, America's leading woodworking authority, you too can build hard-working and beautiful furniture for the home. From an Arts & Crafts stereo cabinet to a Queen Anne writing desk, this book delivers a variety of 15 good-looking projects that will get to work providing comfort and functionality the moment they leave your shop. Plus, each project includes detailed plans, expert instructions, and helpful tips to ensure your finished piece is built to last.

What's Inside:

• 15 attractive and functional projects in a variety of classic styles
• Comprehensive material lists
• Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions
• Detailed technical and exploded drawings
• Helpful quick tips from the experts

Chair making and Design
by Jeff Miller

Winner of the 1998 Golden Hammer Award for best how-to book. Miller, a professional furniture maker, includes instructions and plans for seven chairs. The straightforward plans and instructions make it possible for any woodworker to complete these projects. The 2nd edition has been revised to correct a number of omissions and errors found in the first edition. There are also new chairs included in the color gallery.

Building Small Cabinets
by Doug Stowe

A thoughtfully designed cabinet, built of carefully selected materials, transcends its utilitarian storage role into functional art. The eight wonderful small cabinets in this book will inspire novice and intermediate woodworkers to create a project that showcases not only their treasures, but also their talent. Detailed instructions along with 300 color photos and 30 drawings will help readers hone their cabinetmaking abilities, while design suggestions encourage them to use their own creativity and craftsmanship to customize the projects and make them their own

Furniture Design & Construction
by Graham Blackburn

While much is written about the tools, joints, and techniques that go into building furniture, style, proportion, and the whys of construction strategies remain a mystery. As a result, many woodworkers—beginner and advanced, alike—are forced to build furniture designed by others.

With Furniture Design & Construction, Graham Blackburn presents an insightful and beautifully illustrated reference that details exactly how and why designs are created. Armed with the information in this book, you will be able to plan and build your own one of a kind design. By building or adapting the 12 projects found here, you’ll learn to put your own twist on any project you build—whether it’s your own original vision or simply your interpretation of a classic design.

Handmade Furniture

21 Classic Woodworking Projects to Build for Your Home

For a woodworker, there’s nothing more satisfying than building a project that adds beauty and function to a busy home: the stunning cutting board used every night in the kitchen, the elegant and helpful end-table next to the bed, or the handsome coffee table that proudly serves in the living room. Ultimately, it’s the handmade pieces of furniture that become the family heirlooms for generations to come. With Handmade Furniture by Rafael Nathan, a professional cabinetmaker and the former co-publisher of Australian Wood Review, woodworkers of all skill levels will discover 21 beautiful projects that will be a welcome and proud addition in any room in the house. Ranging from boxes and trays to tables and cabinets, the stylish yet straightforward projects require only a limited number of hand and power tools and will enhance a woodworker’s joinery abilities as they progress from biscuits and dowels to dovetail and mortise and tenon joints.

Joints: A Woodworker's Guide
by Ralph Laughton

Joints: A Woodworker's Guide takes one of the most important and challenging aspects of woodworking and demystifies the all-important subject of choosing, designing and cutting woodworking joints. Strong, appropriate and well-fitting joints are one of the hallmarks of the skilled woodworker. Making them properly and accurately calls for good planning and marking out as well as a good degree of care in the cutting, fitting and final assembly. It is essential to approach making joints methodically, this book provides all the necessary information to ensure success.

• Aimed at both those new to woodworking as well as the experienced woodworker.
• Joints: A Woodworker's Guide is broken down into three main sections: planning and preparation, basic techniques of joint making and individual joints in detail.
• Areas covered include: planning the work and preparing the wood; measuring and marking; cutting and fitting, glues and assembly.

Easy-to-Build Outdoor & Deck Projects

Relax Outdoors with These Easy-to-Build Projects Woodworkers of all skill levels can enhance the beauty of their backyard, deck, and garden with Easy-to-Build Outdoor & Deck Projects , a clloection of attractive and fun projects from the editors of Weekend Woodcrafts. From a porch swing to a garden bench, a butterfly house to a window box, you'll find projects for all aspects of your outdoor living. Develop your woodworking skills and build confidence by following the step-by-step instructions complete with process photography, concise captions and- best of all- full-size patterns! You will also learn which materials and power tools to use and the secrets to finishing. Inside Easy-to-Build Outdoor & Deck Projects you'll find a variety of projects for outdoor entertaining, for accenting your garden and for simply relaxing in the yard: *Tables, Chairs, and Benches: Including a Redwood Picnic Table, an Adirondack Chair, a Porch Swing and more *Garden Structures, Containers, and Accents: including a Window Box, Redwood Foot Bridge, Bird Bath, Butterfly House, and more *Gardening Tool Organizers:including Garden Hose Guides and a Potting Bench

Dining Tables:
Outstanding Projects from America's Best Craftsmen
by Kim Carleton Graves, Masha Zager

The sixth book in Taunton's Furniture Projects series, Dining Tables features nine attractive, practical projects in a variety of different styles. There's Country, Shaker, traditional Colonial, even Queen Anne. These projects are designed to provide a suitable place for a gathering, as well as enhance a family's special occasions.

Bookcases, Cabinets & Built-Ins
by Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking

It's a universal need ― more storage. Whether you're housing books and DVDs, kitchen items, sports gear for the kids, or even the very tools you use to create woodworking projects like these, a little extra storage goes a long way. Following the success of the best-selling Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases (The Taunton Press), this all-new collection of 25 how-to articles from recent issues of Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking magazines will inspire carpenters, woodworkers, and DIY-ers of all skill levels to create practical yet beautiful units for keeping life straight.

Sturdy and attractive is the theme that runs through each project, including a multitude of bookcases, entertainment center built-ins, mudroom clutter busters, and custom kitchen cabinets. Expert advice from America's most accomplished craftsmen will lead the way for designing and building the cabinets, built-ins, and bookcases readers will love.