Q: Who is this book written for?
The Essential Woodworker is aimed at both beginners and experienced woodworkers who use hand tools, covering fundamentals that are often skipped over in other references.
20L0315 - The Essential Woodworker
A revised edition of Wearing's acclaimed 1988 text, this book is an invaluable reminder of many hand-tool basics that are often overlooked.
It covers a wide range of fundamental skills, techniques and woodworking wisdom, with chapters on making tables and stools, carcasses and drawers, and handles and boxes. Appendices provide detailed instructions for making several jigs and fixtures for use with hand tools.
With over 500 black-and-white drawings and photos that complement the text, the book is filled with information essential to anyone who uses hand tools, both beginners and experienced woodworkers.
Hardcover, 6" × 9", 253 pages. Reprinted in 2010.
The Essential Woodworker is aimed at both beginners and experienced woodworkers who use hand tools, covering fundamentals that are often skipped over in other references.
It covers hand-tool basics through chapters on building tables and stools, carcasses and drawers, and handles and boxes, plus wider techniques and woodworking wisdom.
Yes, the appendices give detailed instructions for making several jigs and fixtures designed specifically for hand-tool work.
It includes more than 500 black-and-white drawings and photos that accompany the text throughout, making the hand-tool techniques easier to follow.
It's a revised edition of Robert Wearing's original 1988 text, reprinted in 2010 with the same fundamentals intact.
It runs 253 pages in hardcover, sized at 6" × 9", compact enough to keep on a shop shelf.
| Dimensions | 6" × 9"; 253 pages |
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The Essential Woodworker
A revised edition of Wearing's acclaimed 1988 text, this book is an invaluable reminder of many hand-tool basics that are often overlooked.
It covers a wide range of fundamental skills, techniques and woodworking wisdom, with chapters on making tables and stools, carcasses and drawers, and handles and boxes. Appendices provide detailed instructions for making several jigs and fixtures for use with hand tools.
With over 500 black-and-white drawings and photos that complement the text, the book is filled with information essential to anyone who uses hand tools, both beginners and experienced woodworkers.
Hardcover, 6" × 9", 253 pages. Reprinted in 2010.
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