7 best great book of woodworking

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Attractive & Functional Woodworking Projects for Every Room in Your Home

With a variety of styles covering every skill level, the Great Book of Woodworking Projects has something for everyone.

Whether you want a challenging project that will beautify your home, such as a stunning Stickley chest of drawers, or you need a quick and easy project for a gift, such as a keepsake box or picture frame, you will find the perfect plan inside!

Woodworking Projects with Style & Utility

Inside, you'll find projects to improve every space in your home, from drawers, shelves, bookcases, and storage solutions to nesting trays, a coffee table, a lamp, and a portable food safe!

Gifts, Keepsakes, and Quick Projects

Create beautiful handmade gifts like jewelry boxes, puzzles, and picture frames with minimal time. Included are projects for a peg rack, a table hockey game, a coin bank, and even a pizza paddle!

Projects for Outdoor Living

Create durable pieces for your outdoor living space such as an Adirondack chair and love seat, a garden bench, chest, planter, and trellis. With a section on outdoor finishes, you'll be sure your handmade items will be built to last!

50 Attractive, Practical Projects

Find plans inside for kitchen improvements, storage projects, outdoor living, furniture, gifts, and more! An ideal resource for woodworkers looking for a new project or wanting to spruce up their home, this book has projects that can take anywhere from a few hours to a weekend to complete.

Clever Gifts and Keepsakes

Create beautiful keepsake or jewelry boxes to give as handmade gifts. There are also projects for a table hockey game, picture frames, puzzles, and more! Check out the Cube in a Cube design, which kids play with like a toy while adults approach it like a puzzle, sure there's some way to get the little cube out of the big cube. (Hint: There isn't!)

Step by Step Guidance

Each great-looking project comes with plans and step-by-step instructions, along with color photos and illustrations. Achieve woodworking success with workshop tips and shop-tested advice from the experts at American Woodworker!

Materials, Tools, and Cutting Lists

For each project, find exploded views, plus a list of the materials and tools you'll need, along with a cutting list. You'll also find expert tips to help you deal with unexpected mistakes that can pop up along the way!

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Shop-Tested Advice for Woodworking Success

Everyone loves a clever workshop tip! There's nothing better than a light-bulb moment when an ingenious solution to a vexing problem becomes clear.

Inside this book, the experts at American Woodworker bring you over 650 tips, techniques, & secrets to make your time in the workshop faster and smarter!

Whether you are an accomplished woodworker or just beginning to set up your workshop, you'll find quick answers to your most challenging questions, avoid common pitfalls, & solve everyday problems.

Wood, Turning, and Cabinet Making

Make your wood projects a breeze with tips like how to prevent wood from warping and using a no wobble pen mandrel to tricks like how to make a pin board marking jig and how to duplicate spindles with a semaphore (pictured).

Storing Tools and Supplies

Organize your tools and supplies for optimal use, from a benchtop lazy suzan and hardware storage cabinet (pictured) to a hideaway tool stand and shop apron magnets.

Tool Smarts, Electricity, and Batteries

Work smarter, not harder, whether you're paring thin dovetails and using a saber-saw cushion (pictured) or converting a motor's voltage and cleaning rusty tools with electrolysis.

Gluing, Sanding, and Finishing

From matching old stands and using white glue for woodworking (pictured) to duck-taped sanding blocks and choosing the correct glue for lamination, learn how to complete your gluing, sanding, and finishing tasks with ease.

Router

From router table tenoning jigs and flattening end grain with a router (pictured) to benchtop router table cabinets and making quick circles on the router table, you'll find a plethora of helpful router tips and tricks!

Jointer-Planer and Plate-Joiner

Discover invaluable joiner and planer tips, from a universal planer sled and fast, accurate face frames to getting perfectly squared edges using a planer, as well as important advice on how to avoid common jointer pitfalls (pictured).

Bandsaw, Chopsaw, and Tablesaw

From a zero-clearance bandsaw table and raised-panel tablesaw jig to an easy-to-see, 90-degree blad check and a flip-up miter-saw fence (pictured), these incredible tips will melt away all your saw-related frustrations and inefficiencies.

Drill Press

Tips and tricks for the drill press will make your shop time easier, whether you're using a sliding drill press table and vertical drilling jig or finding the fastest speed for any size Forstner bit (pictured) and identifying grain directions on plugs.

Workbench

Optimize the efficiency of your workbench from double duty planer stands and fold-away outfeed tables to mobile machine caddies and a workbench made from an old door!

Measuring, Marking, and Sharpening

Measure, mark, and sharpen in a jiffy with tricks like sharpening hollow chisels, a no-math saw setup, blunting a nicked edge, and using a versatile center gauge (pictured).

Vise, Clamps, and Clamping

Get a secure grip with tried and true tricks from supporting unwieldy clamps and rock-solid bench support to masking tape miter clamping and corner molding vise pads (pictured).

Hardware and Joinery Tricks

From perfect tenon shoulders and reinforcing plywood for hinge screws to mortising by machine and no-trace broken screw removal (pictured), you'll find no shortage of useful hardware and joinery tips, tricks, and hacks inside this book!