The Joiner and Cabinet Maker is a huge book with more than 370 pages of detailed handtool instruction, including many processes that have not been covered before in the early woodworking literature. Though this sounds impossible, please read on. Let's begin in 1839. In that year, an English publisher issued a small book on woodworking that has ,until now, escaped detection by scholars, historians and woodworkers. Titled The Joiner and Cabinet Maker, this short book was written by an anonymous tradesman and tells the fictional tale of Thomas, a lad of 13 or 14 who is apprenticed to a rural shop that builds everything from built-ins to more elaborate veneered casework. The book was written to guide young people who might be considering a life in the joinery or cabinetmaking trades, and every page is filled with surprises. Unlike other woodworking books at the time, The Joiner and Cabinet Maker focuses on how apprentices can obtain the basic skills needed to work in a hand-tool shop. It begins with Thomas tending the fire to keep the hide glue warm, and it details how he learns stock preparation, many forms of joinery and casework construction. It ends with Thomas building a veneered mahogany chest of drawers that is French polished. However, this is not a book for children. It is a book for anyone exploring hand-tool woodworking. Thanks to this book, we can stop guessing at how some operations were performed by hand and read first-hand how joints were cut and casework was assembled in one rural England shop. Even more delightful is that Thomas builds three projects during the course of his journey in the book, and there is enough detail in the text and illustrations to re-create these three projects just as they were built in 1839. In This Book A historical snapshot of early 19th-century England. Moskowitz, a book collector and avid history buff, explains what England was like at the time this book was written, including the st

Joiner And Cabinet Maker

Lost Art Press

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The Essential Woodworker

Robert Wearing

When I am too exhausted, ill or busy to work in my shop, I will shuffle down the stairs to my 15' x 25' workshop and simply stand there for a few minutes with my hands on my tools. To be sure, I thought I was a touch nuts because of this personality quirk. But after reading the oral histories and diaries of craftsmen from the last 300 years, I found it's actually a common trait among artisans. I am drawn, married or perhaps addicted to the things that allow me to coax wood into new shapes. At the same time, my relationship with my tools is like a tumultuous combination of an Italian family drama, a bigamist's decision about who to sleep with and a careful gardener. This book, The Anarchist's Tool Chest, paints a world where woodworking tools are at the center of an ethical life filled with creating furniture that will last for generations. It makes the case that you can build almost anything with a kit of less than 50 high-quality tools, and it shows you how to select real working tools, regardless of their vintage or brand name. The Anarchist's Tool Chest will guide you in building a proper chest for your toolkit that follows the ancient rules that have been forgotten or ignored. And it will make the argument that building a chest and filling it with the right tools just might be the best thing you can do to save our craft. Like all books from Lost Art Press, The Anarchist's Tool Chest is printed and bound in the United States on acid-free 60# paper. The 6 x 9 hardcover is Smythe sewn and covered in linen.

The Anarchist's Tool Chest

Schwarz, Christopher

We've revived the first English language book on how-to woodworking, updated the language and added photos and analysis of this historic text. In 1678, a printer and globe maker named Joesph Moxon began publishing a series of pamphlets that explored the tools and practices of six trades, including the joiner. When assembled, these pamphlets became "The Mechanick Exercises" - the first English language account of the trades. Today, 330 years later, Moxon's description of joiners is still important to woodworkers who incorporate hand tools into their craft. That's because many of the practices and procedures of early craftsmen have been lost - we still don't know exactly how they produced such beautiful work so rapidly and with such simple tools. For the woodworker who is exploring hand work this book is essential. Moxon's chapters on woodworking offer important clues about the tools and how to use them. So we decided to reprint Moxon's writings on joinery, offering a plain-spoken explanation of Moxon's original text with added commentary and more than 40 photos that explain early woodworking practices. The result is a 93-page book that is smythe sewn. It is hardbound with a navy blue cloth covering that is stamped in gold. It was printed in the United States (Maryland, to be exact).

The Art of Joinery

Joseph Moxon

An Introduction To 17th-Century Joinery

Make A Joint Stool From A Tree : An Introduction To 17th-Century Joinery

Jennie Alexander, Peter Follansbee

A guide to making furniture mouldings using traditional moulding planes.

Mouldings in Practice

Matthew Sheldon Bickford

Grandpa's Workshop (English Edition)

Pommier, Maurice

A little knowledge about trees goes a long way toward improving your woodworking.You dont need a degree in dendrology to build a desk. But you do need intimate knowledge of how our raw material grows and more importantly how it responds to its environment after it has been cut and dried.This knowledge allows you to tame the wood into the shapes that you have envisioned in your head. And it ensures that your furniture will endure the seasons and age with grace and aplomb.That is we are particularly pleased to announce the latest book from Lost Art Press: With the Grain: A Craftsmans Guide to Understanding Wood by Christian Becksvoort. This is the book about wood that we wished wed had when we started woodworking.It is, above all, succinct, easy to understand and perfectly suited for the furniture-maker. As important as what is in its 144 pages is what is not. Its not a detailed analysis of cell growth. It is not a heap of tables and equations for figuring truss loads in residential construction. It is decidedly not a scientists approach to the material.Instead, With the Grain contains the facts you need to know at the lumberyard, in the woodlot and in the shop. It gives you enough science so you understand how trees grow. It explains the handful of formulas you have to know as a furniture-maker. And it gives you a hearty dose of specific information about North American species that will inspire you. Becksvoort encourages you to use the trees in your neighborhood and makes the case that just because you cannot find catalpa at the lumberyard doesnt mean its not a good furniture wood.Youll learn to identify the trees around you from their silhouette, leaves and shoots. And youll learn about how these species work in the shop both their advantages and pitfalls.Becksvoort then takes you into a detailed discussion of how wood reacts to it environment the heart of the book. Youll learn how to calculate and accommodate wood movement with confidence and precision. And yo

With The Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood

Christian Becksvoort

By Hand &amp; Eye is a deep dive into the world of history, architecture and design. And the authors have emerged with armloads of pearls for readers.Instead of serving up a list of formulas with magical names (i.e. the Golden Section, the Rule of Thirds) that will transform the mundane into perfection, George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin show how much of the world is governed by simple proportions, noting how ratios such as 1:2; 3:5 and 4:5 were ubiquitous in the designs of pre-industrial artisans. And the tool that helps us explore this world, then as now, are dividers.The key to good design is to master these basic notes much like learning to sing do, re, mi. How to do this is the subject of the first three-quarters of the book. It offers exercises, examples and encouragement in opening your inner eye, propping it up with toothpicks and learning the simple geometry that will help you improve your design.The last quarter of By Hand &amp; Eye takes these principles and puts them into practice by designing nine projects that are decidedly contemporary proof positive that design isnt reserved for highboys and 18th-century Philadelphia side chairs. The projects show all of the books design principles in full flower, and yet the projects are small enough and simple enough (for the most part) that you can use them as a way to explore the books concepts without risking a lot of wood or time in the process.By Hand &amp; Eye is not, however, a recipe book for better design. The principles of good design are learned through exercise and repetition, and the authors offer the critical exercises in every chapter. Reading about good design is not enough to be able to master it. You have to practice it until it becomes second nature and your hand and your eye work together as one.By Hand &amp; Eye is 200 pages long with full-color illustrations printed on heavy #80-pound matte coated paper. The book is casebound and Smythe sewn so it lasts a long time. The hardback boards are covered in cotton cl

By Hand & Eye

Walker , George and Jim Tolpin

To Make as Perfectly as Possible

Michele Pietryka-Pagan & Philippe Lafargue, Donald C. Williams

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