Woodworking

20-Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles

Achieve simple, sweet, and stackable puzzles and toys! The ultimate project guide for beginners, 20-Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles features 60 easy and adorable animal family puzzle designs that consist of no more than 10 pieces each. After opening with detailed sections on the scroll saw basics, safety, child-safe finishes, and more, a step-by-step tutorial will show you how to make a puzzle project ...

Quick Whittles

Get started in caricature carving with this party of beginner-friendly whittling projects! An excellent place to try your hand at carving caricatures and learn how to capture their expressive traits, Quick Whittles offers 16 portable projects you can carve in one sitting or on-the-go. Featuring detailed guidance that breaks down complex techniques into simple and achievable steps, every easy ...

DIY Backyard Games

Perfect for barbecues, stay-cations, family reunions, game nights, block parties, and more, DIY Backyard Games offers 12 step-by-step easy woodworking and DIY projects to make your own lawn games! Approachable for anyone to accomplish, no matter your experience or skill level, make everything from DIY cornhole and giant Jenga to Yahtzee, Memory, Twister, and more! Use affordable materials and ...

Whittling Workbook

The ultimate beginner-friendly project guide to whittling flat-plane carvings with a modern twist! Whittling Workbook is perfect for anyone seeking a range of easy wood carvings – all you need is a block of wood and one knife to achieve any of the 16 wood carving projects featured within these pages! From a simple strawberry, whimsical wand, and twisty whimsey to a sea captain, Martian, pig, and ...

Chainsaw Carving for Beginners

This complete guide to chainsaw carving explains everything you need to know to carve amazing wood sculptures safely and successfully. Opening with helpful sections on chainsaw care, maintenance, safety, and other essential tips and tricks, Chainsaw Carving for Beginners will equip you with the fundamental knowledge and techniques of wood carving and sculpting with a chainsaw! Featuring four ...

Wood Finishing 101, Updated Edition

Wood staining and finishing made easy, Wood Finishing 101, Revised Edition provides simple directions with clear photography to show you every step of the process. With this must-have guide, you’ll learn how to finish common woods using widely-available finishing materials. Follow step-by-step instructions, eliminate the guesswork, and get the finished results you want every time with this ...

Scrap Wood Whittling

Small wood carvings tend to intimidate, but Scrap Wood Whittling makes it easy! Opening with helpful insight on materials, tools, cuts, and safety, you’ll then go on to complete 19 tiny animal carvings that progress in difficulty. From a leaping pig to an aquarium diorama, each project contains step-by-step instructions and photography, full-size patterns, and more!

Handmade Woodworking Projects for the Kitchen

Whether you’re an intermediate woodworker or a beginner, make a collection of 17 functional woodworking projects for the kitchen for food preparation, storage, serving, and more! Featuring step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, drawings, and expert tips, make beautifully handmade cutting boards, a knife block, wine rack, lazy Susan, and other kitchen essentials that are perfect for ...

Chip Carving Starter Guide

Chip Carving Starter Guide is a must-have guide for anyone looking for an approachable introduction to the timeless craft of chip carving! Begin by gaining a solid foundation of knowledge on the basics of chip carving, transferring patterns, applying finishes, and correctly making a variety of chips. With 3 step-by-step projects and 21 additional patterns, you’ll learn to carve with confidence ...

Woodworker's Guide to Live Edge Slabs

A complete and accessible guide on making DIY furniture from live-edge slabs, this book will show you everything you need to know about incorporating natural wood pieces into your home. After learning techniques for milling, drying, and preparing your own slab, adding inlays, using resin and epoxy, creating waterfall edges, and more, you’ll then move on to complete seven projects that range in ...

Everyday Chip Carving Designs

Everyday Chip Carving Designs features 48 beginner to intermediate projects from the archives of Woodcarving Illustrated that are as useful as they are decorative. From bowls and beard combs to coasters and coffee scoops, each original project includes detailed step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, full-size chip carving patterns, expert tips, complete supplies and tools lists, ...

Beginner's Guide to CNC Machining in Wood

An accessible, beginner-friendly resource to understand general CNC (Computer Numerical Control) principles and techniques for anyone interested in CNC woodworking and the future of these technologies. From the fundamentals of CNC to its machinery, software, tools, materials, and 2-1/2 D carving, this complete guide will teach you everything you need to know about your CNC router in a way that’s ...

Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques

The Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques is here to show you how simple making wands can be – no mysterious magic necessary! In the first-ever guide for muggles to making wands, you’ll learn how to hand carve, power carve, wood turn, and scroll saw 20 unique projects that are sure to delight and manage mischief. Be inspired with a gallery of beloved staff-carrying and wand-wielding ...

Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques (HC)

The Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques is here to show you how simple making wands can be – no mysterious magic necessary! In the first-ever guide for muggles to making wands, you’ll learn how to hand carve, power carve, wood turn, and scroll saw 20 unique projects that are sure to delight and manage mischief. Be inspired with a gallery of beloved staff-carrying and wand-wielding ...

Chainsaw Carving a Bear

Learn the secrets of transforming an ordinary piece of wood into a striking work of art. World champion chainsaw carver Jamie Doeren offers 3 step-by-step projects that range in difficulty for chainsaw carving both realistic and caricature bears with easy-to-follow instructions for beginners.