Tables You Can Customize (Betterway Woodworking Plans Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Conover, Ernie

Crafts & Hobbies

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No other book gives you such valuable information on the essential turning tool. Completely revised and updated, The Lathe Book is the comprehensive guide to woodturning machinery, incorporating the many innovations in the lathe and its accessories. This book covers every aspect of the lathe, including how to choose one, how to select tools and accessories, how to maintain and repair the machine, and basic techniques. You will get: <ul>
<li>expert advice on choosing a lathe</li> <li>tips on maintaining a lathe for optimal performance</li> <li>easy-to-follow basic techniques that help build lathe skills</li> <li>more than 220 color photos and illustrations</li> </ul>

The Lathe Book: A Complete Guide for the Wood Craftsman

Taunton Press

This is an introduction to the practice of using a router table - the tool that has revolutionized the craft of woodworking. It focuses on how to make the most of a router table, showing which routers work best with tables; explains how to build jigs and fixtures that will improve the results gained from using a router table; and discussed the principles of jig design so that readers can design their own jigs. Show more Show less

The Router Table Book (A Fine Woodworking Book)

Turn your ordinary projects into one-of-a-kind designs with Turning for Furniture. In this classic DVD, Ernie Conover shows you how to turn a beautiful assortment of furniture components -- including decorative chair legs and bed posts, knobs, pulls, and ornaments -- and increase your project options.
You'll also learn how to: <ul>
<li>Turn a simple chair stretcher</li> <li>Make custom knobs and pulls</li> <li>Turn chair legs</li> <li>Duplicate parts with ease</li> <li>Turn an offset foot</li> </ul>
The next best thing to a private lesson, Turning for Furniture takes you right into expert woodworker Ernie Conover's shop for an unforgettable 55-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process.
Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on!

Turning for Furniture: Creating Furniture Parts on your Lathe (Fine Woodworking DVD Workshop)

Bowl turning is becoming increasingly popular as a hobby and a way to reconnect with a traditional craft. Ernie Conover is a master turner who has turned his experience teaching this activity to hundreds of people into a practical, easy-to-read guide. This book provides basic instructions to get aspiring turners directly to their goal of creating a pleasing bowl. Along the way, he shows how to: -- Gather and buy wood for turning -- Apply basic and advanced turning techniques -- Sand and finish -- Use the faceplate and chucks to hold the work -- Choose, sharpen, and handle tools -- Create the most attractive bowl shapes
The author's straightforward, encouraging style and extensive photos and illustrations make the process easy and rewarding.

Turn a Bowl with Ernie Conover: Getting Great Results the First Time Around

The Lathe Book: A Complete Guide to the Machine and Its Accessories

Woodworkers will agree—the dovetail is the savvy cabinetmaker's corner joint of choice. It's become the hallmark of fine furniture everywhere. What many woodworkers have disagreed on however, is the best way to make a dovetail—by hand or by machine. With this new book from master woodworker Ernie Conover, readers will learn that making dovetails can be accomplished in a number of ways—and that choosing between hand-cutting or router-driven jigs is just that—a choice. You choose what you like best. Using straightforward, efficient methods, Conover shows woodworkers how to cut full, half-blind and through dovetails using hand tools. The step-by-step photographs and clear instructions will show you all the tricks to getting a perfect fitting joint!

Woodworker's Guide to Dovetails: How to Make the Essential Joint by Hand or Machine (Fox Chapel Publishing)

Fox Chapel Publishing

When you purchase a new bench plane, it would be nice to have a woodworking professional right in your workshop to explain how to best use it. What's the most efficient way to sharpen and hone the blade? Are there adjustments to make for top performance? What are the correct techniques for using my new bench plane? The Missing Shop Manual: Bench Planes delivers all the information you need--and brings Ernie Conover right into your shop to explain it. Includes a 55 minute DVD. A complete overview of bench planes and their accessories from master woodworker Ernie Conover.

Bench Planes (Missing Shop Manual) with DVD: The Tool Information You Need at Your Fingertips

When you purchase a new or much-used bench plane, it would be nice to have a woodworking professional right in your workshop to explain how to best use it. What’s the most efficient way to sharpen and hone the blade? Are there adjustments to make for top performance? What are the correct techniques for using any bench plane? This 55-minute DVD brings Ernie Conover right into your shop to explain everything.

Bench Planes With Ernie Conover: How to Set Up, Tune, and Use This Essential Tool

Turning for Furniture: Creating Furniture Parts on your Lathe

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