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Meet the next generation of woodworkers and designers.
Sponsored by the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers® (AWFS®), the Fresh Wood competition showcases the talents of woodworking students from high-school and post-secondary programs across the United States and Canada. The finalists, chosen by a panel of esteemed judges from the woodworking industry, ultimately have their work displayed at the biennial AWFS®Fair in Las Vegas, NV, where the People’s Choice, Best of Show, and other top category prizes are awarded.
With more than 100 projects featured, the Fresh Wood Design Book is a compilation of the innovative and stunning work on display at the Fresh Wood finals from 2017 to 2021. Professionally photographed and accompanied by insightful first-person commentary regarding the design and construction process, each piece is sure to inspire fellow students and woodworkers while enlightening educators and industry professionals. More than a collection of finished work, the Fresh Wood Design Book is a glimpse into the promising future of the woodworking industry.
Woodworking projects that will transform your outdoor space.
Spend more time enjoying your patio, porch, and backyard with more than a dozen projects, including a classic Adirondack, sturdy and stylish tables, comfortable benches, and much more. With detailed plans, helpful photos, and step-by-step instructions, Building Outdoor Furniture delivers projects for every skill level and need. Also included is expert advice on selecting the right materials and finishes to ensure your outdoor projects withstand the test of time. Whether you’re a hands-on homeowner or a woodworking enthusiast, Building Outdoor Furniture is the ideal book for anyone who wants to build affordable, long-lasting pieces to transform their outdoor living space.
Box projects for the home that you’ll actually use...
When it comes to selecting a project, boxes are a popular choice for woodworkers. They can be small and quick to build, or large with enjoyable challenges in joinery and design. They also make a very welcome gift. But, sometimes you just need a good ol’ box to organize, store, or protect your stuff. You don’t need a delicate, precious keepsake: you want a box, chest, or cabinet that’s sturdy, good-looking, and designed to do the specific job, whether it’s holding your tools, the winter blankets, or a family Bible.
Compiled from the pages of Popular Woodworking, Boxes to Build features twenty-two hard-working projects that you’ll want to build because they are useful. Featuring designs and how-to from some of today’s top woodworkers, including Marc Spagnuolo, Gary Rogowski, Chris Schwarz, and more, Boxes to Build is a woodworking book that’s fueled by function, but doesn’t skimp on form.
Ideal for all skill levels, the box projects in Boxes to Build will quickly–and proudly–be put to use making your life more organized, less complicated, and very stylish.
Craft a Set of Wooden Utensils You’ll Use for a Lifetime…
Found in every kitchen, adored by chefs around the world, and a fan favorite on websites such as Etsy and Pinterest, the humble wooden spoon may be the most beloved kitchen utensil. And, as popular as they are to use, they are also extremely popular to make, requiring minimal equipment and material while unleashing maximum creativity.
Wooden Utensils from the Bandsaw captures the joy of wooden utensils with 60+ full-size templates and designs not only for spoons, but for spatulas, spreaders, knives, forks, and more. These easy-to-make projects are accompanied by insightful and helpful design considerations you can use to create your own specialized utensils. Expert tips and know-how for cutting, sanding, and finishing will have you completing an entire set with ease in a weekend. If you’re looking for a quick woodworking project, fire up your bandsaw—or pull out that trusty jigsaw—and delve into this treasury of beautiful wooden utensils that you’ll be using in your kitchen for years to come.
Make a Statement by Building a Skateboard from Scratch…
The definitive book on building custom skate boards of all shapes and sizes is revised, expanded, and better than ever. From a high-performance street deck to a vintage pinstripe cruiser that will turn heads everywhere you go, this second edition of The Handmade Skateboard delivers all you need to know.
When you make your own skateboard from scratch you have the opportunity to create something that is perfectly tailored to you: a deck that matches your height, your weight, your center of balance, your skill level and your intended use. More importantly, making your own skate deck allows you to design a perfect deck to fit your personal style, making a statement about who you are. There’s nothing wrong with choosing off-the-shelf and mass produced, but who doesn’t prefer to stand out? Be different. Be one of a kind. That’s what you get with a custom handmade skateboard. Whether you’re an accomplished woodworker or an absolute beginner, The Handmade Skateboard guides you step-by-step through building five skateboard designs—from a simple hack board built in a few spare hours to a high-performance street deck pressed from seven layers of high-quality maple veneers. A design guide covers everything you need to know about sizing and shaping your deck and choosing the right trucks and hardware. And detailed photos, illustrations and clear written instruction throughout provide all the information and motivation you need to make your own skateboard from scratch.
Transform Your Next Woodturning Project Into a Work of Art.
You’ve probably seen the dazzling work of woodturners who’ve combined resin with wood to create gorgeous, one-of-a-kind projects ranging from pens and bowls to platters, boxes and more. The end result is so amazing that you’d think the process would be too complicated and too expensive. It’s not. In fact, once you learn the basic techniques of preparing and working with resin, you’ll discover that it turns like butter and stunning results will have you thinking about your next project before the lathe has cooled down.
From Keith Lackner, one of the leading resin woodturners today, Woodturning with Resin is a go-to guide for anyone who enjoys woodturning or is interested in getting started. With expert instruction and stunning photos, Woodturning with Resin takes you through the golden rules of preparing and curing resin for the lathe. Also covered are the fundamentals of how turning with resin is different than turning wood, the best tools, grinds, and speeds to use, and how to achieve a finish that makes the resin sparkle. With all this premium information under your belt, you’ll be able to tackle the wide range of projects that are detailed step-by-step. Woodturning with Resin also includes a gallery of projects to spark your imagination and a helpful Troubleshooting Guide for when things don’t seem to turn out right.
Woodturning with Resin is the only guide you need to discover the fun, beauty, and unlimited potential of adding resin to your woodturning projects.
Paperback / 144 Pages / ISBN 9781950934423
Take your woodworking to an entirely new level...
For many woodworkers, thoughts of veneering can conjure negative thoughts of cheap, shoddy workmanship or complicated, messy techniques, when the reality is quite the opposite. For those that have tried veneering and struggled, Veneering Essentials is an invitation back to achieve success with simple lessons and practical projects well within the reach of any skill or budget. From making your own iron-on veneer to hammer veneering to pressing both mechanically and via vacuum, Veneering Essentials will show you how to use veneer to create beautiful projects that open up countless possibilities in future choices of both wood and design.
Veneering Essentials has you covered as you: discover that some of the best wood is turned into veneer and some are much easier to work with as veneers; learn to cut and joint veneers to create tight joints as easily as you would in solid stock; make your own helpful tools and jigs; learn about various adhesives, edging your work and creating stable curved forms; successfully build beautiful projects using both conventional and not-so-standard substrates. It’s all here.
With Veneering Essentials, today’s woodworker no longer needs to think of veneering as complicated and out-of-reach, but rather an approachable technique that will take their work to an entirely new level.
Everything you need to unleash the simple power of the humble handsaw.
In a woodworking world replete with power tools, many woodworkers—both beginner and professional alike—are skeptical of or intimidated by handsaws. Yet, once put to use and mastered, the simple power of these humble hand tools can both awe and inspire.
A handsaw is woodworking in its most pure and minimal form. If you can see and follow a line—any line—you can cut the line. There’s no need for crazy setups or jigs; just grab the right saw and start cutting—any angle, any shape. Complex joinery becomes no more than a series of lines to cut on your stock.
Compiled from more than a decade’s worth of expert know-how from the pages of Popular Woodworking, The Essential Handsaw Book provides all the information a woodworker needs to choose the right saw, use it successfully, and keep it razor sharp for years to come. In the end, using a handsaw to stay on the straight and narrow when tracking any line will become a successful and satisfying endeavor.
Learning to use hand tools is the foundation to understanding the craft of woodworking
The third volume in Graham Blackburn’s Illustrated Workshop series, Traditional Woodworking Techniques is a clear and practical introduction into the art of hand tool woodworking and furnituremaking, as well as an invaluable reference to the fundamental aspects of the craft. Even if you have never made a single piece of furniture before, Traditional Woodworking Techniques will guide you through the selection of materials, the complexities of dimensions and wood movement, the choice of joinery, and the mysteries of pleasing design. Starting with just a few basic handtools, a beginner will progress from simple but useful projects, such as a bookcase, box, and chest, to more advanced items like tables and chairs—furniture to be rightly proud of. Whether you work your way through every project, or simply dip into a particular area, such as the detailed chapters on miters, dovetails, mortise-and-tenons, splayed joinery, or drawermaking, Traditional Woodworking Techniques will lay the foundation for a thorough understanding of the woodworking craft. Illustrated with over 400 of the author’s iconic detailed line drawings, and complete with an annotated select bibliography, this fully indexed book is an essential part of any woodworker’s toolkit.
Poems to be read by the refrigerator light...
After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, VT, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wrestle her demons to the ground. Forty Poems for Forty Pounds is for anyone who has struggled with self-worth through their relationship with food. While touching upon the shame of diets, the pressure of media-shaped expectations, and search for self-love, Forty Poems for Forty Pounds weaves the constant battle of weight as a reflection into all aspects of life, whether it’s looking at the stars or the shaping a “tall and slender” piece of pottery. Forty Poems for Forty Pounds is an engaging collection with vulnerable, humorous, and insightful poems that will remind anyone who endures a similar daily challenge that they are not alone and that self-acceptance is a choice for the “now” and not a reward to be earned “some day.”
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There’s nothing more satisfying to a woodworker than using handmade kitchen tools in their busy kitchen…
For a woodworker there’s nothing more satisfying than a project that can be quickly made in a weekend that will get years of daily use. And, out of all the rooms in the house, it’s the kitchen that has the most potential for custom made accessories and utensils that will deliver a hard day’s work. From the Make Something workshop of David Picciuto, Make Your Own Kitchen Tools offers up a collection of projects that will give your kitchen a handmade feel while also being part of your daily prep and serving of the day’s meals and snacks.
Whether you have a shop full of tools or just a couple of handsaws and a knife, Make Your Own Kitchen Tools has a project for you, each designed with simplicity and style in mind. The tools and techniques required, likewise, are simple and straight-forward: all you need are basic tools and there’s no complex joinery to slow you down. To guarantee success, each step is beautifully photographed and written in David Picciuto’s trademark straightforward and easy-to-follow style. Whether you follow along each project step-by-step or get inspired to add your own creative spin, Make Your Own Kitchen Tools will have you putting your woodworking to use every day – or proudly giving that friend or loved one a gift they’ll really cherish.
Improve Your Handtool Woodworking with Traditional Jigs & Fixtures
When traditional woodworkers wanted to improve the speed, accuracy and repeatability of their work, they developed clever jigs and fixtures such as shooting boards, a flexible straight edge, and a grasshopper gauge. But the vast majority of those aids were user-made and disappeared from sight when powertool woodworking took over in the 20th century.
The result? Beginning handtool woodworkers today often experience unnecessary frustration because they don't know that simple shop-made aids can vastly improve their work.
Traditional Jigs & Fixtures for Handtools changes all that. It reintroduces traditional user-made devices, unveils others that the author, Graham Blackburn, grew up with, and expands upon those with more recent adaptations and even some manufactured items.
Most of the hand-made jigs are simple to construct and use. And once you've tried them in your shop, you'll quickly see they will make all the difference between frustration and success in your handtool woodworking.
Discover a New Way to Enjoy Wine...
Tasting and pairing wine can be a complex and intimidating task. Not anymore. Drink Progressively, from Hadley and TJ Douglas, wine experts and owners of Boston’s popular The Urban Grape, offers an easy and enjoyable method for discovering wines you’ll love, as well as expert advice on how to pair them with your favorite dishes. The Urban Grape’s “Progressive Scale”, a unique way to organize wine on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the lightest-bodied wines and 10 being the fullest-bodied wines is all you need to make the puzzle pieces of wine fall into place. Grasping this simple principle is the key to demystifying the challenge of pairing food and wine. Or simply finding that elusive bottle that suits your unique tastes. Drink Progressively also details Hadley and TJ’s favorite regions and varietals from each progressive category; what to eat (and what to avoid) with each wine type; expert tips and know-how to make you wine savvy at home or in any restaurant; and delicious recipe pairings from Gabriel Frasca, executive chef of Nantucket’s acclaimed Straight Wharf restaurant. Brimming with fascinating, fun, and helpful wine advice, Drink Progressively is truly a book for everyone, from wine connoisseur to casual drinker.
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Find Your Happy Place in a Classic Trailer You Built Yourself…
If you love camping, but you’re tired of sleeping on the ground or you have a dream of simply checking out and hitting the road, then a teardrop trailer might be the perfect DIY project for you. Sleek, nimble, and oh-so-comfortable, a custom-built teardrop trailer lets you escape in head-turning style. From sketchbook ideas to the complete step-by-step know-how, The Handmade Teardrop Trailer will train you up like a pro on how to successfully build this iconic camper. With only basic tools, easy-to-find materials, and a little bit of space required, The Handmade Teardrop Trailer will have you happily getting back to nature or out of Dodge in search of your happy place.
Put Your Love and Creativity into a Cherished Ornament
There’s something magical about decorating a Christmas tree. For many, what makes it truly special are the ornaments that carry special meaning or memories of family and friends. There are ornaments to celebrate a first Christmas together, a first house, a new baby, and for trips taken. There are ornaments made my children and ornaments passed down by grandparents. Decorating a tree is about spending time with precious memories and happy moments. When you crochet any of the thirty-one projects in Megan Kreiner’s Christmas Ornaments to Crochet, you are putting your love and creativity into a very special ornament. From tasty holiday treats and adorable woodland friends to a complete nativity set, you’ll find the perfect ornament for your own tree or the perfect gift for a loved one that will be cherished for many Christmases to come.
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These prehistoric pals deliver hours of roaming-the-earth fun.
Old-fashioned playtime will never go extinct with this collection of huggable dinosaurs and their friendly reptilian sidekicks. With quick-to-hook chunky yarn, a few basic stitches and the imaginative designs of Megan Kreiner, crafters can create a fearsomely fun Tyrannosaurus, a cuddly Stegosaurus, a flying Pteranodon, or a spiky Ankylosaurus. To guarantee success, the extensive how-to section provides a robust overview with step-by-step stitches, helpful construction techniques, and finishing tips. More than a crochet project book, Dinosaurs to Crochet delivers hours of imaginative prehistoric playtime for even the most discerning paleontologist-in-training.
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For Wooden Toys, Space is the New Frontier!
In Wooden Toy Spacecraft, the iconic wooden toy blasts off into the 21st century with 13 out-of-this-world designs that can be built in a weekend. Going well beyond the simple rocket ship, woodworker Gonzalo Ferreyra offers up an intergalactic fleet of projects that can boldly fly alongside the classics from film, television, and real-world space exploration. With only the cut-offs from your scrap box and the expert guidance, detailed photos, and future-vision fun of Wooden Toy Spacecraft, space geeks of all ages can create state-of-the-art wooden toys to proudly display or gift to that special kiddo for hours of imaginative play.
Today’s CNC machines are easier to use, less expensive, and will greatly increase your woodworking productivity. So, if you’re looking to buy one— or just wish the user manual actually made sense—CNC Router Essentials is for you. With expert woodworkers Randy Johnson and George Vondriska leading the way, CNC Router Essentials will guide you through each critical step in learning how to master this game-changing woodworking tool.
Inside CNC Router Essentials, you’ll find:
Easy-to-follow basics on machine use and project design
Pro advice for selecting the correct bits and understanding toolpath fundamentals
Helpful practice projects in 2-D and 3-D
An inspiring gallery of projects to fuel your own original designs
Everything you need to maximize your CNC’s woodworking capacity
Small box projects that deliver big-time fun!
From decorative boxes with magnetic closures to the cardboard variety piling up in the garage, small boxes are perfect for crafting creative fun. Inspired by her children’s imaginations, craft designer Christen Byrd provides whimsical designs and expert know-how for transforming small boxes into prime-time play spaces for any collection of dolls, matchbox cars, action figures, and more. With projects ranging from a ballerina studio to a superhero hideout, Small Box Crafts keeps things fun and stress-free with helpful instructions, diagrams, and photos and requires only a trusty glue gun and some easy-to-find materials. A happy little book packed with big-time fun, Small Box Crafts is the blueprint for creating hours of imaginative play for that kiddo in your life.
Crochet enough chunky trucks and marvelous machines to fill a construction site.
Construction Vehicles to Crochet is packed with creative crochet projects that will have your favorite construction fan playing all day. Whether your little one loves bulldozers, cranes, cement mixers, or dump trucks, you’ll find a machine to please— or you can crochet an entire fleet for endless digging, dumping, and building fun. Each of the eleven construction projects have parts that actually move so your child can capture the enjoyment of real scooping, plowing, and steamrolling. Additional projects like safety cones, rocks, and crates will help create a buzzing building site for hours of fun right in your living room. With step-by-step instructions, helpful illustrations, and inspiring photography, Construction Vehicles to Crochet will have you providing all the equipment your junior foreperson needs to get that construction job done!
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Four Simple Rules to Unleash Your Most Powerful Woodworking Tool...
A simple and affordable 3-D design program, SketchUp can be used to draft anything your mind can imagine—from quick and simple drawings to elaborate woodworking project plans. Once mastered, SketchUp has the power and versatility to transform your design and woodworking process. From woodworking and SketchUp expert David Heim, SketchUp Success for Woodworkers is the distilled, essential guide you need to master this potent program. With a simple set of rules for success, easy-to-understand instructions, helpful screenshots, and step-by-step examples, SketchUp Success for Woodworkers will have you downloading SketchUp after breakfast and drawing detailed and useful plans by the time the dinner bell rings.
Inside SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, you’ll discover:
Expert advice geared specifically for woodworkers
Four reliable rules that allow you to create measured drawings, full-size patterns, and templates for any woodworking project you can dream up
Handy reference guides to SketchUp’s prompts, tool sets, and vocabulary that will have you comfortable in no time
Tips and techniques to guide you through the drawing process so that you can construct woodworking projects faster and with fewer costly mistakes
A helpful guide to plugins to generate cut lists, clean up models, and much more
Wooden toys that are small in size, but BIG in fun...
Before Matchbox, Hot Wheels, or Corgi, there was Dinky Toys. About 2 to 5 inches in length, the die-cast metal cars, trucks, boats, and planes of the wildly popular Dinky Toys brand could be found on practically every playroom floor. In Wooden Dinky Toys, Les Neufeld, professional woodworker and wooden toy expert, redesigns the all-time favorites of the Dinky Toys line so woodworkers can craft playful wooden versions of these iconic metal toys. Simple enough to be made in a weekend with basic tools and materials, these whimsical projects will provide hours of joy to the satisfied woodworker who makes them and the lucky kiddo who gets to play with them.
Get a great start in woodturning with expert, shop-tested insights and advice from the American Association of Woodturners.
With this collection of articles from American Woodturner magazine, the official journal of the AAW, you’ll quickly get out of the blocks with the best practices on safety, tools, and fundamental techniques. Along with the 18 skill-building projects for everything from bowls and pens to holiday ornaments and doorknobs, Getting Started in Woodturning delivers all the detailed, practical advice a beginner needs.
Discover the Joy of Working with Handtools
For quality results and the joy of hands-on work, the leisurely, contemplative approach of using handtools is replacing the need for the speed, noise, and sense of detachment that often comes with using power tools. To that end, Traditional Woodworking Handtools presents woodworking’s most essential handtools along with a description of what each one does and how it’s used. Responding to the demand for tried-and-true handtools, Traditional Woodworking Handtools is the user’s guide no woodworker should be without.
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Add Some Math Savvy to Your Toolbox…
With Practical Shop Math, you'll discover simple, but non-condescending approaches for everything from adding fractions and decimals to laying out ellipses, octagons, and other shapes that will expand your design repertoire. In addition, Practical Shop Math focuses on the things that you think should be simple, but can drive you nuts: tasks such as enlarging grid patterns, determining miter angles for polygons, dividing angles and arcs, calculating board feet and the amount of finishes you need to complete a project, and so on. Included is a very useful trick for converting a furniture photo from a magazine or catalog into a dimensional drawing that you can use for building your next project. Practical Shop Math covers it all from the basic to the advanced.
Adorn Your Tree with Handmade Ornaments this Christmas Season…
Decorating the Christmas tree is a cherished tradition that officially launches the holiday season. What makes it so special are the ornaments. Collected over time, each one tells a story or rekindles a memory. And, for a crafter, being able to decorate a tree with handmade Christmas ornaments brings even more joy to this timeless holiday activity.
With this follow-up to the best-selling Christmas Ornaments to Crochet, Megan Kreiner delivers a special collection of over thirty new ornaments that will channel your creativity this holiday season. From The Nutcracker to gifts from Santa to a complete set of “The 12 Days of Christmas” characters, More Christmas Ornaments to Crochet provides the perfect ornament for you—or that loved one on your gift list—to happily hang on the tree for many years to come.
Custom-built storage for all your tools.
Toolboxes are a unique project because they can trace the passage of a woodworker’s journey. Often a beginner’s first effort, a toolbox is made to house the very tools used to craft the box. As time passes, the projects evolve into more challenging chests, racks, cabinets, and caddies that mark the development of skill and the accumulation of tools—all while that first banged-up toolbox resides somewhere close at hand.
Compiled from the pages of Popular Woodworking, these 21 classic and practical projects deliver the plans and woodworking know-how needed to make your own custom tool storage. Whether you’re looking for a compact caddy, a rugged-but-portable chest, or a handsomely crafted, many-drawered cabinet to crown your workbench, Make Your Own Toolbox has the project that you’ll use for many years to come.