This handy bench reference tells what kinds of jig make a table saw more efficient or accurate, what’s the best drill-bit speed to use to drill a one-inch hole in hardwood, what clamps and fixtures to use if you’re lamin-ating curved pieces, and many more tricks. At last, a comprehensive, accessible, and easy-to-understand guide you can pull off the shelf whenever you’re stumped.

Working Wood: A Complete Bench-Top Reference

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tolpin, Jim

Crafts & Hobbies

Davis

Everything you need to know to be a finish carpenter: assessing a job before you begin, and tricks of the trade from a master finish carpenter. Easy-to-follow instructions for installing doors and windows, ceiling treatments (including fancy beams, corbels, cornices and moldings), wall treatments (including wainscoting and sheet paneling), and the finishing touches of chair, picture, and plate rails. Specialized interior work includes cabinetry and built-ins, stair finish work, and closets. Also covers exterior trims and porches. Includes manhour tables for finish work, and hundreds of illustrations and photos.

Finish Carpenter's Manual

Home Improvement & Design

Craftsman Book Co.

If you are thinking of ""going professional."" Jim Tolpin can help you with the essential information you need to make informed decisions, including making and presenting quotes and how to set up shop.

Going Professional: A Woodworkers Guide

Linden Publishing

Everything you have always wanted to know about working in the woodworking business.

Working at Woodworking: How to Organize Your Shop and Your Business

Taunton Press

Working Wood, Not Machining It If you're more interested in working with wood rather than machining it, you will be relieved to learn that expensive powered machinery isn't required to build furniture. You can also forget the dust masks, face shields and hearing protection since many of the safety concerns related to woodworking—the use of power tools—are eliminated. In this book, you'll learn to set up a hand-tool woodworking shop, then discover the toolset, practice the skillset, and understand the mindset—effectively completing a comprehensive course in hand-tool woodworking.

The New Traditional Woodworker: From Tool Set to Skill Set to Mind Set (Popular Woodworking)

Popular Woodworking Books

Offers instructions for using woodworking tools, and describes the skills needed to create working drawings, cut to the lines, and correct mistakes

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Do more with your saw than you ever thought possible!
The table saw is a magnificently simple machine capable of performing an incredible range of cutting tasks. In this revised and updated edition of his woodworking classic, Jim Tolpin shares his masterful techniques for using the table saw to achieve a variety of safe and accurate cuts, including ripping, crosscutting, miter cuts, grooves, dadoes, rabbets, curves, moulding, joinery and more.
You'll find ample instruction for using a variety of table saws, plus information on choosing and using accessories, maintaining your saw, and working with jigs and fixtures.
It's the most comprehensive guide available with more than 150 detailed illustrations and photos that show you how to build:
<ul>
<li>Rip and crosscut sleds for high-precision cuts</li>
<li>An adjustable dado-spacing fixture</li>
<li>A miter jig with a sliding stop</li>
<li>Hold-downs for the rip fence and saw table</li>
<li>A circle-cutting fixture</li>
<li>A raised panel jig with positive sliding action and integral hold-downs</li>
<li>A carriage-type taper jig featuring a unique guidance system</li>
<li>A vacuum-actuated fence for ripping thin slices</li>
</ul>
With Jim Tolpin's Table Saw magic, 2nd Edition, you'll quickly see why the table saw isn't just for ripping and crosscutting anymore.

Jim Tolpin's Table Saw Magic

Did you know?
<ul>
<li>The three most fundamental and essential tools can't be bought.</li>
<li>Sanding is the slowest, most tedious, and most counterproductive way to prepare a surface for the clearest, richest finish.</li>
<li>The absolute strongest bends are made without bending the wood.</li>
<li>A scrap of tarpaper and a chunk of scrap wood comprise one of the most precise layout tools available to a woodworker.</li>
<li>There is no such thing as a mistake in woodworking.</li>
</ul>
Well, neither did I when I started working wood more than 30 years ago. But I sure wish I had learned these and a host of other essential woodworking concepts and techniques a lot sooner than I did - it would have saved me much anguish and frustration. However, I wasn't able to learn these fundamentals from books, shop classes, or TV woodworkers. Instead, I was fortunate enough to work with and learn from members of the last generation of traditionally apprenticed cabinetmakers and boat builders.
The 60 essential lessons from the trade that I have recorded in this book are the first things I teach to my own kids in the hope that they will enjoy, as I have, a life of working wood with immeasurable pleasure, passion and purpose - and a minimum of wicked awful mistakes.
Jim Tolpin

Jim Tolpin's Woodworking Wit & Wisdom (Popular Woodworking)

Your Blueprint for Making Good Cabinetry and Good Money
If you've ever dreamed of making an honest living with your hands, then let Jim Tolpin show you how to become a professional cabinetmaker without losing your shirt - or your sanity.
Thirty years ago Tolpin almost destroyed his custom cabinetmaking business because he committed every easy-to-make but hard-to-avoid mistake. He fixed his shop, his woodworking techniques and his business model so that instead of them making him crazy, they would make him a comfortable living.
With the help of Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker you can follow the same successful and detailed path as you set up your own woodworking business (or make your existing business run more smoothly). Here's what you'll learn:
<ul>
<li>Be as good at business as you are at woodworking. Structure your business correctly. Keep records that allow you to set accurate prices. Find new business and keep the old.</li>
<li>Configure your shop, buy your tools and build your jigs so they earn their keep.</li>
<li>Blend high-tech European cabinetry techniques with American furniture styles to make cabinets that are quick to build, easy to customize and a snap to sell to people in your market.</li>
</ul>

Jim Tolpin's Guide to Becoming a Professional Cabinetmaker

The First Book a Woodworker Needs!
Professional woodworker Jim Tolpin offers solid instruction on the principles of measurement and proportion, walking you through every step of the woodworking process. From design and layout to developing a cutting list, his easy-to-follow style introduces a variety of tools (new and old) used to transfer measurements accurately to the wood. You'll learn the best cutting techniques, how to prevent mistakes before they happen, and for those unavoidable mistakes, you'll learn how to fix them so no one will know!

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Simple Steps to Measure, Scale, Draw and Make the Perfect Cut-Every Time.

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