Think inside the box! Looking for a fun way to make use of those offcuts you've been saving? Making wooden boxes is a great way to use scrap lumber or exotic woods that can prove too expensive for larger projects. Boxes require a minimal amount of material but afford you the opportunity to learn and practice a range of woodworking techniques. Plus, handmade boxes make great gifts. Build 25 Beautiful Boxes features an array of gorgeous boxes for a variety of special uses. You'll find stunning designs for jewelry boxes and chests, boxes for pens, a wedding ring music box, boxes with unique shapes and distinctive gift boxes. Along the way you'll learn inlay and joinery techniques that can be applied to other areas of your woodworking. Inside you'll find: • 25 art and heirloom box projects designed by a box-making master • Step-by-step instructions for making inlay and using it to enhance your projects • Great ideas for using precious wood scraps • Helpful tips for sourcing wood Let this book be your guide and start making your own beautiful wooden boxes today.

Build 25 Beautiful Boxes

Stowe, Doug

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Everybody loves boxes - especially woodworkers. After all, they're easy to make, great for gifts, and are perfect for honing your skills.
Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques is a practical, easy-to-understand working manual to building elegant boxes in an array of shapes, colors and sizes. Rich in information, Doug Stowe's book details everything you need to know - from tips on tools to specific wood recommendations to sources of hard-to-find materials.
Nothing has been left out or left to chance.
Each project - the sculpted pecan box, the routed box with sliding top, the bandsaw box, and more - is lavishly illustrated with color photographs of the finishes project, detailed drawings and cutting lists, and step-by-step photos so precise and vivid that you could probably build the projects without reading a word (there are more than two dozen of these illustrating the first simple project alone)!
Projects include:
<ul>
<li>Pen box</li>
<li>Stamp box</li>
<li>Triangle box</li>
<li>Walnut box with spalted maple inlay</li>
<li>Checkerboard inlay box</li>
<li>Sculpted pecan box</li>
<li>CD cabinet</li>
<li>Tea chest</li>
<li>Cherry dovetailed jewelry box</li>
<li>Jewelry cabinet</li>
<li>Earring chest</li>
<li>Fiddleback maple jewelry chest</li>
</ul>
What's more, Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques gives you the know-how to design your own adaptations of these and other projects.
So no matter your experience or shop size, you'll be inlaying your own boxes with confidence and flawless fits, time after time, in no time at all.

Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Betterway Books

Doug Stowe's boxes are more than functional; they're inspired objects of beauty. Now you can recreate the same elegance in your own workshop with these 15 gorgeous boxes.
Featuring a wide range of styles, these boxes embody the skill, artistry and innovation that has made Doug Stowe's work prized by collectors. From a simple ring box to an elaborate relief-carved jewelry box, you'll find, among others, these perfect pieces to suit your skills:
<ul>
<li>Inlaid Walnut Ring Box</li>
<li>Bracelet Box</li>
<li>Lathe-Turned Ring Box</li>
<li>Wedding Ring Music Box</li>
<li>Winter Woods Box</li>
<li>Triangle Ring Box</li>
<li>Pin Cabinet</li>
<li>Cherry Jewelry Chest</li>
<li>Tribute to American Linden</li>
<li>Reliquary &amp; Reverence</li>
</ul>
To help you craft each unique project, this guide includes step-by-step instruction, drawings, corresponding cutting lists, full-color photos and sidebars that detail the most difficult steps. Stowe also encourages you make each box your own by customizing his designs and selecting alternative woods and finishes.
With Doug Stowe's guidance, you'll build more than boxes; you'll craft treasured heirlooms as precious as the objects you place inside of them. Take this guide and experience the satisfaction of creating simply beautiful boxes.

Simply Beautiful Boxes

Doug Stowe elevates building table to a fine art as he guides readers through the process of crafting beautiful custom tables. Nine different projects are explored, in magnificent full-color photographs and 3-D illustrations, showing all the key techniques necessary to make practical yet exquisite tables. 
Woodworker, writer and photographer Doug Stowe brings a true artist's touch to Making Elegant Custom Tables. This excellent how-to book is a must for all woodworkers, from beginners through master craftsmen, interested in building something a little more elaborate and a lot more elegant.

Making Elegant Custom Tables

Taunton's Complete Illustrated guide to Box Making presents a wide range of box making techniques as well as overviews on materials, hardware, tools and various design features. A variety of woodworking joints are covered in a step-by-step format. This book is an excellent companion to Stowe's DVD Basic Box Making, and is a valuable resource for all box makers. 500 color photos are featured in this clear and comprehensive woodworking guide.

Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making

Taunton Press

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 to approach finely crafted boxes. Project after project, your skills will build, and you'll come to refine your work, asking how can processes could be simplified and how can finishes be improved. Throughout the book, Stowe offers this advice: Repeat yourself. Repetition leads to refinement, and refinement leads to success. Though it's not necessary to build the projects in this book in any particular order, they are arranged by the level of difficulty. As you grow in confidence working through the projects in this book, use your imagination and ask a few questions: What if this box were made in that wood? What if that joint were used on this box? What if the lid had more overhang? What if I made it larger, or smaller? The question "What if?" will challenge and engage you as a box maker for years of adventure.

Basic Box Making

Winner of a 2008 Golden Hammer Writing Award. 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 to approach finely crafted boxes. Project after project, your skills will build, and you'll come to refine your work, asking how can processes could be simplified and how can finishes be improved. Throughout the book, Stowe offers this advice: Repeat yourself. Repetition leads to refinement, and refinement leads to success. Though it's not necessary to build the projects in this book in any particular order, they are arranged by the level of difficulty. As you grow in confidence working through the projects in this book, use your imagination and ask a few questions: What if this box were made in that wood? What if that joint were used on this box? What if the lid had more overhang? What if I made it larger, or smaller? The question "What if?" will challenge and engage you as a box maker for years of adventure.

A thoughtfully designed cabinet, built of carefully selected materials, transcends its utilitarian storage role into functional art. The eight wonderful small cabinets in this book will inspire novice and intermediate woodworkers to create a project that showcases not only their treasures, but also their talent. Detailed instructions along with 300 color photos and 30 drawings will help readers hone their cabinetmaking abilities, while design suggestions encourage them to use their own creativity and craftsmanship to customize the projects and make them their own.

Building Small Cabinets

"A thoughtfully designed cabinet, built of carefully selected materials, transcends its utilitarian storage role into functional art. The eight wonderful small cabinets in this book will inspire novice and intermediate woodworkers to create a project that showcases not only their treasures, but also their talent. Detailed instructions along with 300 color photos and 30 drawings will help readers hone their cabinetmaking abilities, while design suggestions encourage them to use their own creativity and craftsmanship to customize the projects and make them their own"--

A guide to living fully and humanely by learning the wisdom of authentic manual work. Many of us live in a world of constant abstraction, immersed in our heads and our screens. But there is a deeper wisdom to be found in working with our hands in the real world. In The Wisdom of Our Hands, craftsman and educator Doug Stowe shows how working with our hands, either professionally or as a hobby, is essential for a full education and a full life. Based on his 45 years as a woodworker and 25 years as a teacher of handcrafts, Stowe argues that human beings have a natural need to express themselves creatively through tangible work. The use of one's hands and whole body to make physical things and reshape our surroundings promotes both physical and mental health and fosters a sense of mastery in both young and adult students. A life of craftsmanship offers the opportunity and obligation to define one's own values. Drawing on his experiences living and working in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a town dedicated to handcrafts and arts, Stowe demonstrates how craft work can create community, forge deeper social bounds, and foster a saner attitude about the value of human labor and material goods. Written for everyone who wants to reconnect with the deep experience of the human body at work, The Wisdom of Our Hands is a quietly radical call to spiritual (and physical) action.

The Wisdom of Our Hands: Crafting, A Life

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Linden Publishing

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Build 25 Beautiful Boxes

Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques

Simply Beautiful Boxes

Making Elegant Custom Tables

Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making

Basic Box Making

Basic Box Making

Building Small Cabinets

Building Small Cabinets

The Wisdom of Our Hands: Crafting, A Life