A valuable manual for all woodworkers, you will learn how to sharpen and maintain all types of blades -- handsaws, bow saws, dado acts, bandsaws, and more.

Keeping the Cutting Edge: Setting and Sharpening Hand and Power Saws

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Payson, Harold "Dynamite"

Crafts & Hobbies

Wooden Boat Pub

A shop manual on building an exceptional rowing dory. Designe by Philip Bolger, this dory is fast, seaworthy and a delight to row. Simple plywood cosntruction.

How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory: A Classic in Plywood

Engineering & Transportation

Harold Payson

Transportation

The business of wooden boat building and repair in North America has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years.

Directory of Wooden Boat Builders: A Guide to the Building and Repair Shops in North America

Reference

Bray, Anne

Woodenboat Magazine Editors

Curtis, Cynthia

Catalogs & Directories

The first in the series, this catalog contains study plans for 50 designs -- which range from a 7'7" pram to a 41'3" schooner. In addition there are drawings that identify the parts of a wooden boat, a bibliography, a guide for the selection of various woods, and instructions by Weston Farmer on reading boat plans.

Fifty Wooden Boats: A Catalog of Building Plans, Vol.1

WoodenBoat Magazine

Author built wooden boats for over 50 years and shares his knowledge about traditional, practical, plank-on-frame boat construction. Literate, warm, encouraging, insightful. Wonderfully illustrated by Sam Manning.

How to Build a Wooden Boat

McIntosh, David C.

A step-by-step manual for the construction of this very popular Joel White design, for oar and sail. This instruction book is beneficial for anyone who wishes to build the pram from scratch using WoodenBoat's full-scale plans.

Building the Nutshell Pram

Bray, Maynard

Boatbuilding Woods: A Directory of Suppliers

Each step in this unique process is carefully explained and illustrated, which with detailed construction plans, provides a thorough guide for advanced amateurs. No lofting is required.

How to Build the Haven 12 1/2-Footer

Learn how to carve sternboards, billetheads, trailboards, eagles, dolphins, rope borders, and more. Learn design and lettering, set-up and carving techniques, woods, tools and sharpening, finishing, and gold leafing, A well-illustrated, beautifully designed book that will guide and inspire both the amateur and professional.

The Shipcarver's Handbook: How to Design and Execute Traditional Marine Carvings

Hanna, Jay S

The 30 designs include: 6 powerboats, 6 daysailers, 11 cruising boats. Also included is an article by designer Joel White on understanding boat plans.

Thirty Wooden Boats

Wooden Boat Magazine

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