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Books

cover Mostly Shaker from the New Yankee Workshop by: Norm Abram

In this latest companion to public television's highly successful program The New Yankee Workshop, Norm Abram presents step-by-step instructions for ten new projects inspired by classic designs. Comprehensively illustrated with color and black-and-white photos and line drawings.

cover The New Yankee Workshop Kids' Stuff
by: Norm Abram

The master carpenter on the popular PBS show "This Old House" now turns his expert attention to projects for building children's furniture and playthings. With his usual lucid directions, tool tips, color photographs, and how-to illustrations, Norm Abram shows just how easy it is to create durable, handcrafted furniture that kids will love. 178 photos, 10 in color.

cover Basic Carpentry Techniques
by: Roger S. Grizzle, Mario Ferro (Illustrator), David W. Toht (Editor)
cover 100 Keys to Preventing and Fixing Woodworking Mistakes
by: Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater

Woodworkers will learn how to: work around flaws in wood; measure right, to avoid costly waste; fix mistakes made with the saw, plane, router and lathe; repair badly made joints, veneering mishaps and finishing blunders; and assemble and glue up projects successfully

cover Care & Repair of Furniture
by: Albert Jackson, David Day

An attractive guide to buying, repairing, and finishing furniture, almost too nice to keep in the workshop, for woodworkers and hobbyists. Color photos and illustrations showing the internal structure of different styles of furniture accompany instructions for duplicating missing parts, re-upholstery, caning, refinishing, gilding, and restoring hardware. Includes information on matching and recreating authentic finishes, distinguishing antiques from reproductions, and prolonging the life of family heirlooms. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

cover Trim (Quick Guide)
by: Mark Feirer

Light on text and heavy on illustrations with step-by-step instructions, each paperback in the Quick Guide series contains enough checklists, diagrams, safety instructions, and tips to make it a useful reference for even novice do-it-yourselfers.

cover 1,200 Paint Effects for the Home Decorator
by: Ray Bradshaw
oldbook.gif - 494 Bytes Step-By-Step to a Classic Fireplace Mantel : A Complete Guide to Building a Classic Fireplace Mantel from Stock Materials
by: Steve Penbethy, Gary Jones, Douglas Congdon-Martin (Photographer)
cover Stair Builders Handbook
by: T. W. Love
This book is well worth the price, but be careful of it...friends tend to borrow it and then it is a question of who has it now and where is it?
cover A Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing
by George R. Di Cristina, Geroge R. Christina
An instructive guide dealing with building both straight and curved stairs, with primary focus on how to construct continuous climbing- turn handrail sections using the tangent principle. Although laminating is frequently used in stairbuilding, there are times when it is not practical; and in such circumstances, the tangent system is of great service. It allows for distinctive stair and handrail designs that are not available through the use of stock components.



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