DVD's

SketchUp for Woodworkers
Part 1: Getting Started
by Robert W. Lang

This DVD is comprised of our series of 12 lessons in the basics of using SketchUp (a free 3D-modeling program from Google). These Sketchup for woodworking video lessons take you step by step from setting up the software to gathering information from your finished model. So you'll head to the shop with all the information you need to build any project with confidence. You'll know the exact sizes of every part, and how the parts go together – before you ever cut any wood!

2 Hours of Expert 3D Computer Modeling Instruction

• Learn at Your Own Pace
• Build on Screen Before You Head to the Shop
• Learn the Basics of Google SketchUp
• Master the Skills You Need
• Techniques for Quick Designs
• Set Up SketchUp for Efficiency & Accuracy

Sketchup for Woodworkers
Part 2: Advanced Techniques
by Robert W. Lang

First off, if you haven't purchased the SketchUp for Woodworkers – Part 1: Getting Started, we strongly recommend doing so — as the techniques, projects and tips are much more advanced and in-depth in this Part 2 series.

Sketchup: Part 2 shows you how to quickly and easily resize even the most complex plans. The video lessons from this download build on the skills learned in ShopClass Part One. You'll learn the magic of copying instead of drawing and the art of making changes. You'll be able to print detailed parts lists and full-sized templates. You'll know the exact sizes of every part and how the parts go together — even before you cut the wood! Add accurate details such as dovetails, raised panels and cope-and-stick-joints to your projects.

Woodworking Secret: Tips & Techniques
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!

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• The 4 essential steps to squaring your stock
• How to duplicate any project part quickly and accurately
• How to choose the right saw blade for any task, and MORE!

Discover shop-proven, time-tested methods for becoming more effective—and more resourceful—in your shop. Using these expert tips from WOOD® magazine’s Jim Heavey, you’ll tackle every project with more confidence than ever before. You’ll work smarter, quicker, and with greater success, regardless of your skill level. Packed with great ideas, essential skills, and advanced techniques, this DVD is destined to become your go-to video resource. You’ll be amazed as you enjoy your shop time as never before.

Cutting and Installing Crown Molding
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!

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• How four simple templates make measuring and cutting foolproof
• Secrets to gap-free joints and seamless transitions to walls & ceilings
• How to install long pieces of molding by yourself, and MORE!

Have you ever admired crown molding in someone else’s home and wished you could do it in your own? Cutting and installing crown molding isn't’t as hard as you might think, as WOOD® magazine’s Jim Heavey shows you in this video. With Jim’s common-sense approach, you’ll have the confidence to trim your rooms—or embellish plain kitchen cabinets—with beautiful crown molding in no time.

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!

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• 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.

Sharpening Simplified
by Everett Ellenwood

Having trouble getting your carving tools razor sharp? In Sharpening Simplified, Everett Ellenwood will show you a simple proven method to get your carving tools properly contoured and sharp each time you sharpen them.

Everett is an award winning carver, with more than 30 years of carving experience. He has taught carving classes for two decades, and was an independent distributor of pre-sharpened carving tools for 17 years. Over the years Everett perfected a unique, easy to learn, sharpening technique which he taught to hundreds of carvers. This process was so well received that his students kept telling him "make a video", you need to share this!

Professionally made in a studio, using 3 cameras, his 110 minute video is divided into 9 chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Sharpening Positions
3. Sharpening Stones
4. Carving Knives
5. Gouges / Veneers
6. Flat Chisels
7. "V" Tools
8. Micro Tools
9. Conclusions

Each segment of tool sharpening starts with Ev showing what each tool should look like when it is properly sharpened and why; then he actually sharpens the tool to show how to achieve a sharp and properly contoured tool. Comments accompany each process as he shows you the steps.

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.

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 - Octagonal Lazy Susan
with Tommy Mac

DVD + Printed Plans

In Octagonal Lazy Susan, Tommy provides detailed project instructions for this magnificent piece, with a focus on the inlay technique. He also takes a field trip to Historic New England, a private warehouse in Haverhill, Massachusetts, full of important furniture, and works back in the studio with fellow North Bennet Street School alumnus Eli Cleveland.

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.

Rough Cut - Shaker-inspired Step Stool
with Tommy Mac

DVD + Printed Plans

In Shaker-inspired Step Stool, Tommy provides detailed project instruction, highlighting the dovetail technique. He also visits The Breed School of Fine Woodworking in Rollingsford, New Hampshire, to speak with Allan Breed, a fellow craftsman and expert on historical furniture. Tommy is joined by in-studio guest Al D'Attanasio, a Canton, Massachusetts, resident who has been an avid woodworker for over forty years

Rough Cut - Trellis
with Tommy Mac

DVD + Printed Plans

In Trellis Tommy provides detailed instructions for building a trellis, the perfect accent for any outdoor space. He also steps outside the studio with Trellis Structure's David Valcovic, and the two of them visit the John Adams House in Quincy, Massachusetts, which showcases its own impressive collection of trellises.