Woodwork category: 409 books

This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Plans and directions for simple structures are easy enough for amateurs to follow; time and inclination are the only necessary elements. Each of the designs has been tested and allows numberless alterations...

Richly illustrated guide to the design, construction, painting, and decoration of a host of distinctive pieces — candle stands to four-posters. Includes designs for 24 popular hex signs and measured drawings for building 50 representative pieces: chairs, tables, desks, and many more. 250 illustrations. Bibliography.

This book covers several topics including: I. WOOD FINISHING IN GENERAL II. PREPARATION OF NEW AND OLD SURFACES III. STAINS IN GENERAL IV. FACTORY PREPARED STAINS. V. WATER STAINS VI. STAIN  BRUSHING AND PROCEDURE VII. PREPARING WOOD TO TAKE STAIN EVENLY VIII. THE MIXING AND USE OF...

Mission Furniture By H. H. Windsor

Build a Fine Home for your Feathered Friends Birds of all feathers will be flocking to your backyard to live in the beautiful houses and dine in the unique feeders you can build in just a few short hours. This book is chock-full of more than 50 simple projects for bird, butterfly and bat houses designed...

The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning,...

Originally published in 1922, this is a fascinating illustrated guide to various fieldsports and the woodcraft connected with them. Contents Include: Life Habits of British Animals Game Birds of Great Britain Vermin Destruction of Vermin Hints for the Gunner Angling and Habits of Fresh Water Fish...

The ancient Egyptians were avid model makers. Many of their miniature masterpieces were replicas of boats, lovingly handcrafted from the finest woods and often decorated with rich materials such as ivory. Amazing examples of Egyptian maritime art and technology, many of these models remain intact...

The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. Its...

How to select a boat, plan your project, finish the job, and actually head for the water. Over the past thirty to forty years boat builders, large and small, have produced tens of thousands of fiberglass boats. Many now sit abandoned, waiting for some tender care to get back on the water where they...

prepping: No1 Survival Guide For When SHTF Do you know how to survive when SHTF? In this book you're about discover how-to survive when SHTF What would happen if everything you are so used to were to be wiped out by a catastrophe? How would you survive? How would you source for food,...

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable. The information in this ebook on various aspects of handicraft, other hobbies and relelated subjects is organized into 17 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who like crafts,...

Do you enjoy woodworking, crafting your own pieces of furniture from wood? It's a very nice hobby that enable people to relax and destress. Many people take a step further. After making their masterpieces, they sell them, either online, or they open a shop! These people basically convert their...

The Work of Craft is a profound meditation on the relationship between craft and craftsman. Focusing in turn on pottery, weaving, and woodcarving, and grounding her insights in her own experiences as a potter, Carla Needleman shows that the basic material every craftsman works with is himself or herself....