Cabinetmaking and Wood Technology

After the June 24, 2010 storm, The Center for Art in Wood joined with Bartram's Garden, today a flourishing historical monument, to learn about John Bartram and his mission and offer artisans the opportunity to be inspired by his work and his methods. The artists created diverse works that express Bartram's voice and his dedication. Essayists put the works in context.

Whether it's kitchen, home office, family room, or any other kind of built-in cabinet work, this classic technical handbook shows you exactly how to approach the complex job of designing and making custom cabinets. Robert W. Lang takes the mystery out of the job with clearly written text, meticulously detailed shop drawings, and sharp photographs that show how cabinets go together in the real world. Gives you the choice of building either traditional face-frame cabinets or contemporary frameless Euro-style cabinets.

Follow along as the author illustrates how to use historic ornamentation to accent items for your home, like classically carved bookends, an heirloom quality jewelry box, a cabinet for storing CD's, and much more. Perfect for the beginner or advanced carver, this book takes you from start to finish with detailed instructions and step-by-step photography.

The Dunlaps of New Hampshire began making fine furniture in the mid-1700s. Their distinctive tables, chests, chairs, and clockcases have their origins in the traditions that the Scots-Irish brought to the New World. Most Dunlap works are now in museums where they are studied by scholars, but thanks to the book's detailed scaled drawings and Donald Dunlap's construction notes, woodworkers can undertake the challenging proportions and ornament practiced by the Dunlaps.

By Marc Spagnuolo, creator of The Wood Whisperer website and host of its popular YouTube channel, this book teaches the time-tested methods for creating woodworking's most fundamental joints. Rather than working solely by hand or machine, Spagnuolo teaches woodworkers how to choose the most sensible joinery method for the task at hand while providing some additional techniques and styles for each joint.

Discover how to build rustic furniture from cut timber in this comprehensive guide for woodworkers. Award-winning outdoor writer Alan Garbers shows how to use raw logs to make cabin-style beds, tables, benches, lamps, coat racks, kiva ladders, and more.

A blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. The authors probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives, including transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.

Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist–'Carpenter's assistant: women strongly encouraged to apply'–despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and here tells the story of becoming a carpenter.

This benchtop reference collects hundreds of ingenious and indispensable shop tips and pearls of wisdom collected by the editors of Make: and some of the most talented and prolific makers who've contributed to the magazine and Maker Faire over the past decade. Inside you'll find tips for measuring and cutting, gluing and fastening, clamping and joining, drilling, shop organizing, maintenance and repair, and more.

A practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution.

Focuses on sharpening various woodworking tools, using the sharpening stones, tools and techniques. Nearly every operation in woodworking uses a piece of steel between the woodworker and the wood. This steel needs to be cared for and sharpened for the best results. This is an up-to-date book on sharpening every woodworking tool, using the latest sharpening stones, tools and techniques.

Take command of any building and carpentry project with the robust, construction-specific math skills you will get from the this edition. Divided into short units, this combination book/workbook explains the math principles essential to carpentry and building construction in straightforward, concise language, and then reinforces each concept with samples of problems common in the trade.

With the use of a biscuit joiner, a few other power tools, and the procedures described and illustrated here, you can now make sturdy, elegant cabinets in less than half the time it would take using old-fashioned, tongue-in-groove construction. Feel confident adapting techniques for medicine chests, utility cupboards, furniture (chests of drawers, hutches, side tables), and more.

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands.

Instagram sensation Mike Pekovich explains the basics of woodworking, from choosing lumber with care, cutting joinery accurately, and preparing and finishing the surfaces. A simple approach to building boxes and furniture that are built to last. Includes information on designing and building cabinets, boxes, chests, casework, and tables.

Furniture making, practiced as a craft in the twenty-first century, is a decidedly marginal occupation. For woodworker Peter Korn, the challenging work of bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one's own volition is exactly what generates the authenticity, meaning, and fulfillment for which many of us yearn. In this book, he explores the nature and rewards of creative practice.