Woodworking Books

The Unplugged Woodshop
by Tom Fidgen

Hand-Crafted Projects for the Home & Workshop (Hardcover)

Woodworker Tom Fidgen is very well known in the online woodworking community, and his first book, Made by Hand, was critically acclaimed. In his second book, Fidgen presents more hand-tool woodworking projects for the home and workshop. The projects have a distinctive retro look, recycling designs from our not-so-distant past. He has reconceived the classic library card catalog (converted to use for kitchen storage); a clever medicine chest does double duty as a four-bottle wine tote; and his gentleman’s valet is an elegant clothing stand with a profile that harks back in time. In the opening chapters, Fidgen discusses the benefits of working in an unplugged woodshop, considers the sources of design inspiration, offers advice on the critical importance of sharpening, and even explains how to make hand tools using only hand tools.

Woodworker's Pocket Reference
by Charlie Self

Everything a Woodworker Needs to Know at a Glance Sized for a shop apron, this handy reference is packed with tips and answers to all of your woodworking questions in an easy to read and quick to find format.

Answers you'll find inside:

• Characteristics of Popular Woods
• Types of fasteners and their uses
• Basic types of joints and their strengths
• Shop math and formulas
• Common hand and power tools and their uses
• How to choose a workbench and setup a workshop
• Putting an edge on a cutting tool
• and much more!

Great Workshops
by Editors of Fine Woodworking

The editors of Fine Woodworking hit the road to visit hundreds of shops. We check every detail - including projects and processes as they really happen- to bring you the most extraordinary stories. Whether upgrading the workshop or building from scratch, this book delivers the tips and trade secrets to help you design a workplace around your specific needs.

The Workshop Book
by Scott Landis

Landis shows you how you can create your own woodworking sanctuary in whatever space you can afford. With the help of hundreds of drawings and photographs, The Workshop Book takes a systematic approach to:

• storage for tools, lumber and supplies
• heat, light and electricity
• where to put benches and machines
• dust collection
• shop security and personal safety
• making the most out of the workspace you have

The Workshop Book also contains 20 detailed floor plans for a diverse range of workshops. You also get construction details for dozens of useful fixtures and shop accessories. Whether you are just starting out in woodworking or are somewhere along this lifetime journey, this book will be your faithful guide.

Care and Repair of Shop Machines
by John White

A complete guide to setup, troubleshooting and maintenance

Wood shop tools are a major investment -- and keeping them in good running order is essential. In Care and Repair of Shop Machines, veteran woodworker John White shows you how to assemble, tune, maintain and repair the machines that you count on. Throughout the book, White’s approach is practical, straight-forward, and effective.

White includes chapters on tune-up, the jointer, the table saw, the thickness planer, the drill press, the band saw, the router table and the miter saw. This is the first book you’ll reach for when your machines aren’t performing, and it’s the book you need to keep them running at their best.

Care and Repair of Shop Machines gives you:

• complete guidance on assembling, tuning, maintaining and repairing all major shop machines
• low-tech solutions and alternatives to expensive set up tools and jigs
• clear, concise troubleshooting information geared to help you solve common tool problems
• some excellent jigs to improve tool performance

Woodshop Dust Control
by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Wood-shop Dust Control provides all the information woodworkers need to protect themselves from dust -- a serious health hazard. This revised edition includes charts & graphics, up-to-date information on the latest products & examples of actual shop systems. Get practical information on designing and building a system that is right for you and your shop in this book.

Workshop Idea Book
by Andy Rae

Improve Your Shop with Ideas Gleaned from Visits to Shops of Hundreds of Woodworkers

A workshop is always a work in progress as skills grow and new tools are added. Now you can benefit from the ingenuity of fellow woodworkers and see how they've solved common shop problems like storing tools, lumber, and clamps and organizing work areas. No matter the size of your shop or its location, The Workshop Idea Book will show you inventive ways to improve it.

Workshop Projects
by Chris Marshall, Woodworker's Journal, John English, Chris Inman,
Rick White, Brad Becker, Ralph Bagnall, Barry Chattell, & 11 more

Want the hardest working shop on the block? The secret lies in streamlining the woodworking process by maximizing your space and organizing your work area. Workshop Projects, Fixtures & Tools for a Successful Shop brings you more than two dozen ingenious projects for setting up your shop to save time, money, and frustration. .

Dust Control Made Simple
by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Every woodworker knows that dust is dangerous to your health. It poses a threat in any size shop, and professional guidance is required to manage it. Enter woodworking expert Sandor Nagyszalanczy, who covers all facets of dust control in this book and DVD. In the past, dust-control installation required complicated calculations, but now manufacturers offer systems that are economical and easier to install. The process is truly demystified by Nagyszalanczy, who covers comprehensive systems, as well as air filtration, portable systems, shop vacuums, task dust collection, and personal dust protection. This is required reading (and viewing) for all woodworkers who care about health and safety.

Your First Workshop
by Aim Ontario Fraser

A Practical Guide to What You Really Need
(Getting Started in Woodworking)

A bewildering variety of tools, clever marketing copy, and lack of knowledge can lead even the most determined new woodworker to make many unnecessary purchases, causing frustration or retreat. Written for true beginners, Your First Shop offers inspiration and encouragement, guiding readers toward smart tool choices by providing realistic, reliable information. Best-selling author Aimie Ontario Fraser started working with wood in high school, and has taught extensively in workshops and classes since. Your First Shop brings that experience to readers. Woodworkers of every taste can find a shop style that works for them in one of the book's four sections: The Essential Shop, The Basic Shop, The Efficient Shop, and The Well-Rounded Shop. Topics include how each tool is used and what it is used for. The book also offers extensive advice on choosing a location for the shop, maximizing available space, and planning for future expansion.

500 Workshop Tips and Jigs
by Stuart Lawson

This remarkable book brings together the collective wisdom

of the most inventive group of woodworkers you could possibly hope to find: the readers of the Guild of Master Craftsman’s woodworking magazines, who regularly send in their favorite tips for publication. Carpenters, cabinetmakers, router users, turners, carvers, do-it-yourself enthusiasts—everyone who works with wood is guaranteed to find a wealth of invaluable ideas in this huge and extremely practical compendium. Areas of interest, organized by subject matter and illustrated in color, cover every possibility: hand and power tools, machines, marking and measuring, materials, joints and fixings, abrasives, finishing, storage, and safety. There are even tips for the physically handicapped craftsman—a topic rarely discussed. This is the complete solution for inspired woodworking.

Mastering Woodworking Machines
by Mark Duginske

This text provides common-sense techniques applicable to all brands of machinery to help you choose, set up and tune your machines for safety, precision and efficiency, and help you avoid making mistakes.

Mark Duginske is a band saw expert and the author of 10 woodworking books, including "Band Saw Bench Guide" and "Band Saw Handbook," His work has appeared in numerous publications, including "Architectural Digest," "Architectural Record," "Fine Homebuilding," "Fine Woodworking," and "Woodshop News," His work in the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois, appeared on "This Old House" and the PBS Frank Lloyd Wright Special. He lives in Merrill, Wisconsin.

Workshops
by Editors of Fine Woodworking

Expert advice for designing a great woodshop in any space

For years, woodworkers have turned to Fine Woodworking magazine, in particular the popular annual "Tools & Shops" issue, for advice about setting up their woodworking shop. This book is a collection of the best of those workshop articles from the last 10 years. It covers all aspects of setting up a shop from choosing a location and adding heating and cooling, through accessories and storage options to how to use the shop safely and comfortably. Also included is advice on workbenches, jigs and fixtures, and dust collection. With such a wide range of topics and shops represented, this book will appeal to all woodworkers from newbies just setting up a shop to veterans who want to make better use of the shop they already have.

You'll learn how to:

• Build a small, sturdy workbench
• Heat and cool your shop
• Work at the right height
• Set up a dust collection system
• Outfit your shop with an essential clamp kit
• Transform a prefab

Woodland Workshop:
Tools and Devices for Woodland Craft
by Ben Law

A woodland craftsman’s workshop should bring immense pleasure and the tools and devices that furnish it are unique to woodland work and have formed the heritage of woodland crafts that we have today. Following on from his successful book Woodland Craft , woodsman Ben Law explains what makes a good workshop, outlines the key tools needed, gives information on how to sharpen them and shows us how to make an array of fascinating devices from scratch.

• Projects include: peeling jig, pole lathe, woodsman's grip, cleaving brake
• 16 step-by-step woodland device projects
• Beautiful photography and illustrations
• A foundation book for every green woodworker to use as reference

Coupled with interesting titbits of historical and practical information, this is an invaluable guide for every green woodworker.

The Workbench:
A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench
by Lon Schleining

In this contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that perfect bench and its accessories. This is a fresh look at the classic subject with a focus on helping readers find the right bench and accessories for their needs. The object is to guide the reader through making critical choices, including whether to buy it or build it. Even long-time woodworkers dream of the perfect bench and the time to build it, and for them, the real enjoyment is in the planning. With nearly 300 photos and drawings, The Workbenchprovides in-depth information along with the inspiration to fulfill workshop dreams.

Coupled with interesting titbits of historical and practical information, this is an invaluable guide for every green woodworker.