Bamboo, reed and wicker crafts Books
Fox Chapel Publishing 3D Scroll Saw Projects
Book Synopsis3D Scroll Saw Projects is a compilation of all the bestcompound-cutting articles from Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine.All the designers are well-known and well-respected woodworkers like AlBaggetta, Sue Mey, Clayton Meyers, and Diana Thompson. Packed with tips,techniques, 35 fun compound-cut projects, and over 150 full-size patterns,you''ll find projects for decorative items like Christmas ornaments, earrings,and holiday gift boxes to practical items like an air plant holder, a chess set,vases, miniature birdhouse ornaments, and a set of little clocks. To create amazing 3D compound-cut pieces, simplylay the pattern down along one side of the block, cut with your scroll saw,turn the block 90 and cut out the second part of the pattern. Whether you''re a beginner or have beenscrolling for decades, you''ll find plenty of patterns you can tackle withsuccess!
£15.29
GMC Publications Green Wood Carving
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£18.75
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Joint Book The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery
Book SynopsisFeaturing illustrated instructions for over 70 joints, this spiral-bound book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills.The Joint Book provides easy-to-follow directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise-and-tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, and dowels and biscuits, plus detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints. This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5” × 8”, the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access. The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book&r
£11.69
Fox Chapel Publishing Complete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes
Book SynopsisComplete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes: Learn to Build Beautiful and Practical Containers for Everyday Use is more than an introduction to woodworking. It's the perfect companion for your first foray into greater craftsmanship--taking the knowledge you learn from making small wooden boxes and invigorating your love for working with wood! Author Albert Kleine, a longtime woodworker who teaches woodworking to beginners, presents projects by featuring more easily executed first, such as one made with a simple butt joint and progressing through more advanced such as a desk try with marquetry bottom. You'll learn everything from cutting dovetails to adjusting hinge mortises for a lid that fits just right. With Complete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes, you'll get everything you wanted from a woodworking introduction - all without breaking the bank on a lot of expensive wood and supplies before you earn your first stripes. Join Kleine as he teaches you the fundament
£15.99
Fox Chapel Publishing EasytoMake Wooden People Pets with Personality
Book SynopsisFeatures 31 adorable high-quality wood projects with full-size patterns such as relaxing on a lounge chair, a couple holding hands, a family with kids. High-quality patterns are a scroll-sawyer's bread and butter, and this book is very pattern heavy while still including introductory material for beginners
£10.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Nomadic Furniture
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£26.59
Fox Chapel Publishing Complete Starter Guide to Woodturning on the
Book SynopsisThe ultimate, beginner-friendly woodturning guide! Compact, accessible, and simple, this resource will show you how to use a lathe and build your turning skills as you create functional and attractive woodturning projects. Featuring insightful opening sections on sourcing green wood, the anatomy of a lathe, food-safe finishes, tools, sharpening techniques, and more this book includes eight illustrated projects to help you get comfortable using a lathe and hone your woodturning skills resulting in practical items for the kitchen and workshop, or great gifts to family and friends. From turning a honey dipper, bowl, mallet, and baby rattle to a pizza slicer, toy car, ice cream scoop, and more, each stunning design includes step-by-step instructions, detailed patterns, and materials lists to ensure success. Discover endless possibilities once you gain a foundation of basic turning skills on a lathe with this must-have woodworking guide.
£15.29
Fox Chapel Publishing Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman
Book SynopsisGreat Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised & Expanded Second Edition is a complete sourcebook of working shop drawings for 61 classic pieces of American furniture. Whether known as Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, or Mission, these sturdy, straightforward and immensely popular designs have graced American homes for more than 100 years. The author, a master cabinetmaker, measured original Craftsman antiques to create these detailed plans. This revised new paperback edition is compiled from three of his previous books: Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture; Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware; and More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture. Every type of furniture is represented here: from trestle tables, love seats, and nightstands to corner cabinets, rockers, tabourets and more. With perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists, this book gives woodworkers the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic, along with all the information needed for workshop success. A bonus section on inlays and hardware offers original designs that add color, lyricism, and a graceful flourish to ever-popular Craftsman furniture.
£15.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd MultiAxis Spindle Turning
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£23.79
The Crowood Press Ltd Electroplating
Book SynopsisElectroplating in the home workshop can seem a daunting task due to the range of chemicals, the unfamiliar processes and the underlying chemistry involved. However, the results of a well-cleaned item and a well-maintained electrolyte are overwhelmingly impressive and, compared to sending parts to be industrially electroplated, are very cost effective. The practical advice given in Electroplating will provide you with the confidence and ability to create an electroplating tank of your own. This book will guide you through each of the processes and the equipment needed to start your own plating system and, alongside detailed step-by-step photographs and diagrams, provide instructions on their most effective use. It covers: the history and scientific basics of the electroplating process; types of electroplating metals and their function and applications; formulations and ingredients for electroplating solutions; advice on selecting the best equipment to use depending on tank size; deta
£15.29
Fox Chapel Publishing QuickStart Woodburning Guide
Book SynopsisQuick and simple, this easy-to-read, small-format guide is the ultimate starting point to introduce yourself to the hobby of woodburning! Perfect for any beginner, jump right into learning about what pyrography is, safety, types of equipment, pens, burning techniques, and other foundational topics. Get a complete overview, and with the suggested lists for further reading and project books, get started! Michele Y. Parsons is a pyrographer, woodcarver, founder and owner of Parsons Wood Artistry, instructor, and author of Leather Pyrography. With her expert instruction, you'll learn and understand everything you need to know about pyrography so you can start woodburning the right way, right from the beginning.
£7.59
Thames & Hudson Ltd The GreenWood Carver
Book SynopsisDiscover the absorbing art of green-wood carving with Samuel Alexander’s skills, projects and techniques—and his reflections on whittling in a busy world Whittling is an immersive and peaceful form of woodcarving which rewards calm focus with beautiful objects. Samuel Alexander shows how to responsibly source fresh green wood, introduces the basic techniques for using your knife, and demonstrates how to carve unique objects. But, sharing his own story, he also reveals the other benefit that whittling can bring you: a time of happy focus that’s free from pressure and profoundly relaxing. After covering the basics of how to get started, you can work through a range of step-by-step projects at your own pace. Working with the grain, you’ll create tactile curves and textures, slowly revealing the character of each piece as you whittle. Samuel’s projects progress in difficulty to challenge your new skills, and include brushes, simple buttons, household hooks, a toy car, an apple ornament, spoons, vases, and beads. Finally, he shows how to finish the keepsakes you’ve whittled with oil, and how to maintain your tools. Throughout the book, Samuel’s thoughtful prose also encourages you to find another state of mind as you whittle, and discover the deep calm which arrives as you focus on small movements and personal creativity.
£15.29
The Crowood Press Dovetails
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£13.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Big Book of Knives
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£33.29
Fox Chapel Publishing Whittling in Your Free Time
Book SynopsisIn continuation of the bestselling 20-Minute Whittling Projects, author, whittling artist, carving teacher, and Woodcarving Illustrated contributor Tom Hindes brings you 16 more fast, easy, and fun whittling projects to complete in just one short sitting! With step-by-step instructions, high-quality photography, and a focus on the beginner-friendly flat-plane style of whittling, you'll carve a variety of safari, aquatic, woodland, farm, and domestic animals. Progressing from very simple to more challenging, each project is meant to encourage you along the rewarding and relaxing path of whittling and build your skills. Whether you're new to whittling or have been doing it for years and want to try a new method, this book is the go-to resource to keep on carving!
£8.99
The Crowood Press Ltd Art of Letter Carving in Wood
Book SynopsisThe Art of Letter Carving in Wood is a thorough guide to this beautiful craft. Based on the v-cut method, it explains how to carve letters in a range of sizes, styles and different kinds of wood. The book progresses from the basic to the difficult, and from simply designing and carving letters to using them in a wide range of situations, from the purely practical and informative to the expressive and interpretative. Written by one of the UK's leading and most respected lettering artists, this book not only covers the process of letter carving in wood but also does much more by explaining how to convey a message effectively. It looks at every aspect of designing the piece be that using italics, spacing the letters, using letters, using the grain or adding colour. With over 500 illustrations, it is the definitive text for all letter carvers in wood.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkably comprehensive manual, the like of which has not been produced in this way before. -- Michael Rust, FCLAS, CertEd, Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society * The Edge, Calligraphy & Lettering Society *
£22.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Lockback Folding Knife
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£23.79
Fox Chapel Publishing Intarsia Woodworking Made Easy
Book SynopsisTake your intarsia woodworking skills to the next level! Intarsia Woodworking Made Easy is a skill-building compendium of useful tips, techniques, and projects that are perfect for scroll sawyers and power carvers, no matter their experience. Opening with detailed beginner-friendly overviews on blade selection, wood preparation, the stages of shaping, applying a finish, budget-friendly hacks, and so much more, this complete guide then presents 11 unique step-by-step projects and high-quality intarsia patterns that range in difficulty, from a simple succulent and a mermaid to an advanced lighthouse and carousel horse. You'll also learn how to scroll saw custom pet portraits! An inspiring resource for anyone looking to build or improve their intarsia skills, this complete guide is the ultimate must-have!
£15.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Advanced Veneering and Alternative Techniques
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£31.44
Dover Publications Inc. Making Authentic Shaker Furniture
Book SynopsisOver 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic Shaker designs: cradle, dry sink, trestle table, lap desk, rocking chair, many more. 262 halftones. 140 black-and-white line illustrations.
£18.89
GMC Publications Whittling Wildlife
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£11.99
GMC Publications Wooden Jewellery Boxes
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£13.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd 79 Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw
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£12.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Basics of Turning Spirals
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£12.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Scroll Saw Pictures 2nd Edition
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£12.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Knife Sharpening Made Easy
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£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Japanese Knife Sharpening
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Making Full Tang Knives for Beginners StepbyStep
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£22.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Damascus Steel
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sharpening Woodworking Tools
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£27.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Hardwood Edging and Inlay for Curved Tables
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£19.54
F&W Publications Inc The Perfect Edge
Book SynopsisSharp tools work better!If you've never experienced the pleasure of using a really sharp tool, you're missing one of the real pleasures of woodworking. In The Perfect Edge, the mystery of the elusive sharp edge is solved by the long-time sharpening expert and tool maker Ron Hock. You'll soon find how easy and safe hand tools are to use.This book covers all the different sharpening methods so you can either improve your sharpening techniques using your existing set-up, or determine which one will best suit your needs and budget. Ron shows you the tricks and offers expert advice to sharpen all your woodworking tools, plus a few around-the-house tools that also deserve a perfect edge.
£25.49
Stackpole Books The Art of Fine Enameling
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive book of enameling has been revised to bring you this essential reference. Every chapter and project has been reviewed and updated. About half the projects have changed; classic techniques such as champlevé and cloisonné, and are still included, as well as newer approaches such as enameling on steel—21 project lessons in all.
£21.56
Fox Chapel Publishing Easy Wire Art
Book SynopsisLight and decorative yet strong and robust, wire art is the perfect way to add handmade charm to any room. Finally, you'll be able to learn the craft of wire art using inexpensive floral wire to create 21 eye-catching projects, all with easy-to-follow diagrams and clear instructions. Once you know the basic techniques, you'll be able to make personalized wire art sculptures to decorate your home or office, or gift to someone you love! From free-standing flamingos to delicate flowers for vases, start a new, inexpensive hobby that's tailored to you!
£9.89
Fox Chapel Publishing Wrought Ironwork
Book SynopsisSecond in its series and a facsimile edition of the original 1953 instruction manual, Wrought Ironwork is a practical and essential guide with a focus on technique for the modern smith. With 33 step-by-step lessons and coordinating photography for making a variety of scrolls from ribbon-end scrolls to beveled scrolls water leaves, and wavy bars, and eventually onto the creation and assembly of an ornamental gate, practice the fundamentally vital methods to this timeless trade. Working in succession with Blacksmith's Craft, you'll further your skills and hone the techniques necessary to become a skilled smith.
£6.64
Fox Chapel Publishing Beginners Guide to Sharpening Carving Tools
Book SynopsisLearn how to to keep all of your woodcarving tools and knives sharp and in tip-top condition with this comprehensive guide. Offering clear, step-by-step guidance, beginners will learn the basics of sharpening knives, gouges, V-tools, and chisels. Also included are informative sections on safety, basic sharpening techniques, what to keep in your sharpening kit, tool storage and clean-up tips as well as how to protect sharp edges, clean stops and sharpen stones. Learn essential tips and tricks from expert artist and best-selling author Lora Irish.
£7.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Caners Handbook
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£23.79
GMC Creative Woodturning Projects
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£13.59
Fox Chapel Publishing Lettering on Wood Paper and Leather
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive resource covers a variety of hand lettering techniques for use on the three main pyrography media surfaces: wood, leather, and artist paper. Includes sections on safety, tools, basic pyrography techniques, pen tip styles, burning strokes and tonal values as well as templates for seven fonts. Renowned and award-winning artist Lora Irish takes you through each project step-by-step and shows you how to finish your chosen project with flair. Achieve your hand lettering goals and make beautiful, personalised gifts and signage with this must-have guide.
£11.89
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Woodworking
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£21.25
Fox Chapel Publishing SmallScale Woodworking Projects for the Home
Book SynopsisThis book is full of useful, stylish patterns woodworkers can cut on the scroll saw in very little time with the larger format bringing the photos of works in progress and larger patterns to life. From lamps to earrings and wall art to coasters and cupboards, Roshaan Ganiefs guide has everything woodworking artists need to build their woodworking skills and create stunning art for their home or to give away as gifts. The book features a beginners & Getting Started section along with 44 projects and patterns that have clean minimalism designs that artists can finish in their own style. It also includes step-by-step instructions and beautiful full-colour photography to help scrollers along the way. Personalize your home with your own creations with a minimal amount of money and time.
£13.59
Fox Chapel Publishing 500 Patterns for Woodworking Laser Cutting and
Book SynopsisPacked with 500 scroll saw patterns for ornaments and includes sections on choosing your blade, selecting your wood, and applying a finish, along with an inspirational gallery of finished designs. Includes instructions and patterns for fretwork projects that have a minimalist, European flair, and each project can be cut in 15-20 minutes.
£15.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Little Upholstery Book
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£21.24
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Wood Craft
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£22.50
Fox Chapel Publishing Blacksmiths Craft
Book SynopsisThe iconic, must-have guide for modern handcraft artisans,Blacksmith's Craft has been teaching the fundamentals of blacksmithing since 1952 for good reason. Traditional tools and techniques of the craft will never change and learning the classic cornerstones of the trade is crucial to fully understanding the behavior of iron and steel. The first in its series, this facsimile volume of the seminal British textbook includes 37 lessons, crisp photography, descriptive captions, and all the timelessly essential knowledge a beginner needs to practice and become a skilled blacksmith, from understanding the parts of the hearth, blast, and anvil to creating T-shaped pocket welds. With the modern resurgence in interest,Blacksmith's Craft is the primary, go-to source to learn the skills, tools, methods, and techniques from inside a blacksmith forge.Trade ReviewA solid introduction to blacksmithing. * StormTheCastle.com *
£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Spalting 101
Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide to DIY spaltingΓÇöharnessing fungi to create spectacular colors and lines in wood.
£25.19
Firefly Books Ltd Driftwood Furniture
Book SynopsisNew edition of the practical guide to using driftwood for making furniture and decorative objects.
£16.10
WW Norton & Co The Blacksmith Ironworker and Farrier
Book SynopsisA tribute to the skill and ingenuity of a versatile craftsman.
£15.19
