Selecting and Drying Wood

Discontinued. Limited stock.

These articles give advice on everything relating to procuring wood for furniture making.

From personal accounts, the authors cover tips for browsing the lumberyards, milling your own lumber, hiring a sawyer, various drying methods, potential movement concerns, how to transport the lumber, and even how to break down a furniture plan to know what quality of wood to get for the different parts.

There are also articles on selecting and using some tropical woods. Plenty of color photographs.

Softcover, 8" × 10 1/2", 153 pages, 2006.

Online only.