Woodworking

Learn to carve a traditional mallard drake decoy from start to finish with this easy-to-follow guide. It includes patterns and paint swatches, and covers everything from wood choice and knife cuts to painting and weighting. Perfect for the beginning carver.

Create your own expressive cane toppers from found wood with this enjoyable guide. Fifteen imaginative step-by-step carving projects include whimsical wizards, comic caricatures, proud eagles, mythical dragons, and more.

This comprehensive manual on hand-cut joinery shows how to create almost any traditional furniture joint quickly and accurately using hand planes. Readers learn how to choose, set up, maintain, and master the most popular joinery planes, with technically rich diagrams, illustrations, practical advice, and skill-building exercises.

This book provides dozens of exciting projects for weekend woodworkers. Each piece is designed to be simple to make while having a really professional look, and can be made using either hand or power tools.

Learn how to construct a variety of traditional, Shaker and contemporary clocks, with plans, parts lists, and instructions for 37 timepieces, including grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and desk clocks. Complete Guide to Making Woodrn Clocks, 3rd Edition also includes a bonus pattern pack with project templates.

Now available in a handsome new hardcover gift edition, this friendly guidebook will encourage readers to whittle away the hours. 18 projects include knives, forks, birds, animals, trees, flowers, and more.

This is the ideal woodturning book for beginners, offering expert instruction, valuable tips, step-by-step projects, and common-sense advice that will eliminate the mystery while infusing some fun into your turning.

Create useful products out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets. 20 step-by-step projects include raised garden beds, bookshelves, benches, plant stands, tables, spice racks, and much more.

Learn how to make, modify, restore, and use traditional wooden handplanes. Discover the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; how to tune up a new plane for peak performance; and how to make your own set of planes.

Discover why this traditional tool has a home in your modern workshop, with step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, detailed illustrations, and clear diagrams. Learn how to choose, set up, maintain, and use Japanese handplanes to achieve stunning results.

Making your own bird boxes and feeders is a rewarding and environmentally sound way to enhance any garden by attracting birds. This book offers informed advice on siting, nesting, and feeding, along with 17 practical step-by-step construction projects.

Create charming holiday decorations that double as small toys with this easy-to-follow guidebook. Full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions are provided for 15 working wooden toy ornaments.

Learn the secrets of creating fascinating 3-D wooden inlay projects, with 14 exciting portraits of popular wildlife. Includes step-by-step intarsia demonstrations for a Bald Eagle, a Wild Mustang, and a Bull Moose.

This big book provides complete working shop drawings for 61 classic furniture pieces. The author, a master cabinetmaker, measured original Craftsman antiques to create these detailed plans. With full perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists for each project, this revised collection gives today's woodworkers the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic, along with all the ...

With this well-illustrated guidebook and your favorite Victorinox® Swiss Army Knife, you’ll be ready to whittle wherever you go.