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  • Design Book Eight

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    Woodworkers look to the Fine Woodworking Design Books as the gold standard in woodworking design. Woodworkers use these books as a source of inspiration and project ideas. Interior designers and archi...

  • Turning for Furniture with Ernie Conover

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    Increase your project options by incorporating turned elements into your furniture designs. In this DVD, Ernie Conover shows you how to turn a beautiful assortment of furniture components, including d...

  • WoodŽ Magazine: Making Great Boxes

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    There's a myriad of ways to handcraft boxes of all sizes and shapes and these will expand your woodworking skills and explain the basics of marquetry, how to weather shiny new copper, intricate inlay ...

  • History of Lovespoons

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    This book focuses on how the beautiful and unique tradition of lovespoons came into being and the significance of the symbols carved into almost every lovespoon handle. Filled with rich, vivid pictur...

  • Rustic Furniture Basics

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    The techniques for making Rustic Furniture can be easily learned by anyone who can handle basic hand tools. In this DVD companion to the book of the same name, Doug Stowe shows how to select and work ...

  • Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw

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    While wood bowls are commonly made on a lathe, this guided resource offers 28 projects for crafting beautiful bowls with the more accessible scroll saw. Each project is organized in a progressive lear...

  • Basic Box Making

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    Learn the art of box making from one of the foremost experts of the craft. Through Doug Stowe's decades of experience, you'll learn the basic techniques to get started, as well as more advanced ways t...

  • Frame and Panel Construction

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    In this DVD, Graham Blackburn tackles the basic frame. He explains the functions and design opportunities of stiles, rails, and muntins and shows you how to combine them into a frame. He also shows yo...

  • Natural Edges & Hollow Forms

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    Learn to wet-turn and create end-grain bowls whilst retaining the bark as a rim....

  • Small Shop Projects

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    Woodworker Jim Cummins shows you how to transform that small scrap you can't bear to throw away, into a valued treasure. In addition to several intriguing boxes with many variations, you'll discover a...