DVD's

Guide to Perfect Glue-ups
by Jim Heavey

Jim Heavey has been educating and inspiring audiences from coast to coast at The Woodworking Shows for 8 years running. Now you can bring Jim into your own home with these info-packed video DVD's featuring his best tips and techniques for woodworking success. Jim’s easy-to-follow approach will change your shop ways—and results—forever!

On this info-filled DVD you’ll learnhttp://www.ptreeusa.com.

• The simple way to apply even clamping pressure
• How to avoid alignment mishaps before the glue dries
• Why you should wait overnight before sanding a glue-up, and MORE!

Nearly all woodworking projects require glue-ups, and in this video WOOD® magazine’s Jim Heavey demonstrates how to effectively and consistently produce pleasant-looking, structurally sound and flat glue-ups for any type of project. From lumber selection and storage, to layout and jointing, to clamping and excess glue removal, the tips and techniques you’ll learn here will increase your confidence—and competence—in this most basic and important aspect of woodworking.

Dovetail a Drawer
by Frank Klausz

Frank Klausz cuts quick, precise dovetails without jigs or templates, then glues up and fits the finished drawer.

You will learn about:

• Dovetail drawer anatomy
• Transferring dimensions from the scale drawing to a full-scale '' story-pole''
• Choosing lumber Marking out, ripping and crosscutting drawer parts
• Marking out the dovetails and pins
• Hand sawing the pins and tails and chopping out the waste
• Gluing up
• Applying finishing touches with a smooth plane

A professional cabinetmaker for more than 25 years, Frank Klausz operates a cabinet shop specializing in antique reproductions and restorations and in custom architectural fixtures. He also has made the other Fine Woodworking video workshops Making Mortise-and-Tenon Joints and Wood Finishing.

Dovetails
by Jim Kingshott

Produced for woodworkers of all skill levels, this video guide is a bare wood-to-finished piece primer on the production of hand cut dovetail joints-the hallmark of a fine woodworker's repertoire. Dovetail joints are used to make boxes, cabinets, and drawers, but, as the DVD shows, they can be difficult to produce. Jim Kingshott makes it easy by welcoming viewers into his own workshop and passing on 50 years' worth of experience and knowledge about the tools and techniques used to create a sturdy and beautiful dovetail joint.

Rough Cut - Keepsake Box
with Tommy Mac

DVD + Printed Plans

In Keepsake Box, Tommy provides detailed instructions, and addresses the subject of herringbone veneer techniques. Then, he takes a trip to the John Adams House in Quincy, Massachusetts, to visit one of John Adams's desks, covered in magnificent veneer and banding. Tommy is joined in the studio by Neil Lamens of Furnitology.com.

Rough Cut - Serving Tray
with Tommy Mac

DVD + Printed Plans

In Serving Tray Tommy provides detailed instructions and discusses the technique of creating compound angles--and offers up a trick that helps create the angle that defeats so many woodworkers. Then he joins Gerry Ward--from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts--at the First Church of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and returns to his studio for a visit from the North Bennet Street School's Steve Brown.

Dovetails Made Easy
by Marc Sommerfeld

In this information-packed, 38-minute DVD, Marc will show you in a step-by-step approach how to create five different dovetails with the versatile and easy-to-use Katie Jig. You'll learn how to cut The Popular Thru-Dovetail, The Box Joint, The Combination Dovetail-Box Joint and The Half-Blind Dovetail Joint. Build the beautiful and exceptionally strong dovetail joints with the undisputed leader in dovetail creation, and learn how to do all this on your router table! You'll be amazed by how easy it really is, as you pick up loads of great tip and tricks-of-the-trade along the way from Marc Sommerfeld, one of America's leading authorities on cabinet-making. It's another must-have addition for your How-To library.

Approximately: (38 min.)

Complete Guide to Quick and Easy Projects
by Wood Magazine

On this comprehensive disc, you will learnhttp://www.ptreeusa.com.

• Build 14 boxes, 15 jewelry chests, 30+ clocks, and more.
• Glue up intricately patterned cutting boards.
• Miter picture-perfect frames.
• Dress up your projects with inlay, copper, and veneers.
• Turn scrapwood into useful and decorative items.

Included on this info-packed disc:

• More than 100 easy-to-build project plans.
• 6 videos showing must-know woodworking techniques.
• Plans for jigs that guarantee top-notch results.