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Ian Norbury is recognized as one of the world's leading wood sculptors, with works in Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London. Here this living master provides one-to-one virtual training for aspiring woodcarvers, as he carves and explains his techniques for creating an iconic Uncle Sam. The 45 minute disk includes printable plan drawings, dozens of still photographs and more than 70 step-by-step video clips.

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Get creative with your scroll saw and dive into the world of woodimals. Woodimals are fun and creative puzzles made in the shapes of countless animals from around the world. Each puzzle incorporates the name of its animal into its design, resulting in a piece that is both engaging and entertaining. Woodimals make perfect gifts and are excellent projects to create for young children just learning how to read. You can turn your workshop into a classroom for your children or grandchildren and present them with an engaging and interactive learning experience. Woodimals come in all shapes, including creatures from the sea like dolphins and exotic animals like the camel.

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Weary of the same old burgers, tough steaks and dried-out chicken breasts? Then say goodbye to boring! Use the instructions inside this book to serve a perfectly grilled, yet simple entree or side dish. Or turn up the heat and go wild! Tangy marinades, savoury rubs, zesty basting sauces, and flavourful salsas will give your grilling just the kick that's been missing.

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This book shows how to design, build and repair masonry like an expert, with the latest techniques and materials, step-by-step directions, safety advice and hundreds of colour illustrations. Basic techniques are described for working with mortar, making repairs to brick, mending concrete, attaching fastening and removing stains. A section on building with concrete discusses what can go wrong and why, with sage advice on preparing for the project, forms, pouring and finishing, footings and making adobe. Thorough coverage of masonry repairs and maintenance is also included, plus useful tips and special tricks of the trade.

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This is a visual directory to the many choices and techniques available, when selecting collars and necklines to perfectly enhance a garment. Necklines are what give a garment personality. From demure rounded collars to plunging V-necks, the diagrams and instructions inside this book will teach home seamstresses how to create fashionable necklines to suit every style.

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Carve various types of faces, noses, and hair alongside one of the leading caricature carvers in the country, Harold Enlow. Learn expert tips and techniques to achieve detailed facial features and make your carvings pop with life and expression. Kit contains a high-quality, hand-cast resin study stick with a wood color stain and a 32-page instructional booklet with step-by-step instructions and coordinating photography, making this a must-have addition to your woodcarving library! Study stick measures 12” in height.

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Homeowners will learn how to fight rising energy costs and unpredictable weather with this clear, easy-to-follow guide to the ins and outs of weatherproofing your home. This book teaches what every homeowner should know about weatherproofing their home. It's not about fancy renovations or style. Instead, it's solid basic information that will help readers make their houses into warm, weather-tight family homes. Whether you need to add insulation in your attic or weather-strip your doors, this book has the details homeowners need to keep their home comfortable year round.

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"Labeling America: Cigar Box Designs as Reflections of Popular Culture" showcases the unique collection of John Grossman which covers 90 years of cigar box labels and bands printed by four generations of George Schlegel Lithographers. This book takes these beautifully printed slices of American culture and combines them with the history of chromolithography into an interesting story of America's changing tastes and graphic standards.

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This title teaches home seamstresses how to create a casual drawstring, a comfortable elastic or a tailored seam. This book will help you select the waist or waistband of your choice, adding the perfect detail to your own designs. Simply select the choice that's right for your style and follow the step-by-step sewing directions. Whether you are looking for a casual drawstring, a comfortable elastic or a tailored seam, this book will teach home seamstresses how to create waistbands to suit a variety of garments and styles.

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This title includes information on choosing, setting up, tuning and using bench planes. This is a durable, pocket-sized manual that is ideal for quick reference. It provides a complete overview of bench planes and their accessories from master woodworker Ernie Conover that includes information on everything to do with bench planes: choosing, setting up and tuning and using. It also features plans for shooting boards and other useful plane accessories and jigs. This is a durable, pocket-sized manual that will show readers how to get the most for their money by getting the most from their equipment and is ideal for quick reference.

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This title offers everything you wanted to know about choosing a router, making a router table, using a router to shape wood and making joints using a router. Mounted in a table with a fence, the shop router becomes as versatile as a shaper and it's a whole lot cheaper. Along with shop test buying advice, this book includes complete plans for four complete router tables and routing work stations, plus dozens of proven, photo illustrated shop tips and router table add-ons. It also includes a special section on amazing sliding dovetail joints, which can only be made on the router table.

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This handy pocket sized guide offers all the tips, tricks and ideas a woodworker needs to get the most out of this tool, in a concise and accessible way. Dedicated to providing integral information about woodworking tools and techniques that other manuals overlook, the books in this series contain safety facts, explanations about basic project set up and tips for maximising tool performance. In "Shaper", woodworkers will find out how to best utilize this essential workshop tool and how to get the most for their money by getting the most from their equipment. Filled with clear diagrams and instructions, this pocket sized durable manual is ideal for quick reference in the workshop.

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A no nonsense guide to turning wood on a lathe. People are drawn to the woodturning lathe because it is the quickest way to go from raw wood to a finished object. Most projects can be finished in an afternoon and many can be completed in less than an hour. Unlike most woodworking machines, the lathe grips and whirls the wood while the woodworker attacks it with a hand held chisel or gouge. This makes the chips and shavings fly into the air as the blank takes on its new shape. This is also what makes woodturning so much fun: simple machines, easy skills to learn, fast results. This book provides readers with the distilled, accessible content that they need to get right to work, as well as some highly detailed illustrations and a great number of pictures.

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This guidebook provides woodworkers with all they need to know to create a safe and organised workshop and prepare and employ various tools. It features information on everything from getting the maximum life out of tools to step-by-step instructions on the principles of sanding, finishing, and much more. The trusted contributors include Roger Schroeder, Lora Irish and Jack Kochan. Compiled from the best tips and tricks from the pages of "Woodcarving Illustrated", this guidebook provides woodworkers with all they need to know to create a safe and organised workshop and prepare and employ various tools. Essays and instruction from such trusted contributors as Roger Schroeder, Lora Irish and Jack Kochan share everything about mallets, v-tools and getting the maximum life out of carving tools. Also included are step-by-step instructions explaining the principles of sanding, finishing, gluing, clamping, and much more. The woodcarver's budget is also addressed, in such chapters as 'Poor Man's Dust Collector'.

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This is a skill-expanding and money-saving book that every woodworker needs. For the woodworker who wants to purchase wood wisely and save money by finding, cutting, and drying it on their own, this guide from the experts at American Woodworker is a must. Along with learning the most economical way to buy and process lumber, discover how to interpret rough lumber, work with defects and use boards that are not perfect, as well as other useful skills. With expert advice, detailed drawings and step-by-step photographs, this is a skill-expanding and money-saving book that every woodworker needs.

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Anyone can learn to easily construct their own beautiful frames with the advice and instructions in this book. It features clear instructions, dozens of illustrations and step-by-step photographs. A good frame can accentuate a piece of art, protect a cherished memento, or enhance the decor of your home. However, professional framing can be very expensive. Fortunately, with the advice and instructions inside "How to Make Picture Frames", anyone can learn to easily construct their own beautiful frames. From antique to contemporary, readers will find designs for rustic frames, easy-to-make oval frames, highly decorated frames and even a handsome Craftsman-style frame. The experts at American Woodworker magazine have compiled their best articles on frame-making and provide clear instructions, dozens of illustrations, step-by-step photographs and everything readers need for success. With workshop tips, plans for jigs and matting & mounting instructions, readers are guaranteed to create frames they can be proud of.

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Reusing Mother Nature's beauty inside the home is a great way to add warmth to any decor, as this book shows. It includes five chapters that are divided into the areas of a home where the 35 stylish and practical projects can be used. It takes the reader on a journey that is both creative and inspiring. For years, Chris Lubkemann has been transforming twigs, branches and fallen trees into artfully designed yet functional pieces for the home, from candle holders and coasters to coffee tables and curtain rods. With insight into picking the right piece of wood to the basic techniques of cutting, trimming and shaping, "Tree Craft" takes the reader on a journey that is both creative and inspiring. The five chapters in the book are divided into the areas of a home where the 35 stylish and practical projects can be used. Aimed toward those with a general appreciation of wood, the projects are interesting because they use natural pieces of wood that can be turned into unique and useful items with some creative tweaking. Reusing Mother Nature's beauty inside the home is a great way to add warmth and rustic elegance to any decor.

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This title demonstrates that anyone can transform their kitchen for less with stock cabinetry and a well-thought-out plan. A unique feature is that the authors' own kitchen is the featured project. Filled with great advice and lessons and an inspirational gallery at the end of the book. A kitchen remodelling project can be daunting and expensive, even for an experienced woodworker. Thanks to cabinet and furniture maker Jonathan Benson, anyone can transform their kitchen for less by using stock cabinetry and a well-thought-out plan. Benson imparts the importance of having a solid design that meets the needs of everyone using the space. Peppered with comments from his wife, Sherry, a former executive chef and restaurant owner, the Bensons show that working as a team can make a kitchen remodel go a little more smoothly, even if opinions differ. "Transforming Your Kitchen with Stock Cabinetry" is filled with great advice and lessons, such as what to know before going cabinet shopping, how to live in a construction zone, and the pros and cons of various countertop materials. What makes this book unique is that the Bensons' own kitchen is the featured project, guiding the reader through a complete remodel. The inspirational gallery at the end of the book is filled with beautiful photos and gives true meaning to the term 'dream kitchen.'

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Inventive and unique, this dynamic collection of woodworking projects teaches the basic skills needed to make exciting, action-packed toys. From rapid-fire nickel launchers and ball-and-socket robots to a monkey-toss gumball machine, each project includes a colour photograph, a tools and materials list, a full diagram, woodworking plans and instructions for using the finished product. Covering all the methods necessary for creation - selecting wood, drilling and shaping, making wheels and axles, and decoration - these constructions are simple enough for children and parents to complete together, all in an afternoon's time.

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Discover the award-winning work of the Caricature Carvers of America. Features 50 original patterns along with biographies, carving techniques, and painting tips.

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Woodworkers, carvers and turners of all skill levels will discover 15 fantastic and unique walking stick projects that range from a basic pine staff to a sophisticated brass-adorned turned cane. Complete with step-by-step instructions, detailed patterns and in-depth coverage of shaping, turning and finishing techniques, this book also includes a valuable guide to woods and an impressive gallery of works from the private collection of Albert LeCoff, executive director of the Wood Turning Centre in Philadelphia.

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Includes information on chip carving history, wood selection, tools, sharpening and cutting techniques. Also includes sections on borders, grids, rosettes, foliage, lettering and finishing. Features seven step-by-step demonstrations including a trivet, a napkin holder, a coaster set a box and more.

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Medieval castles, armoured knights, dragons, and crests are among the scroll saw projects included in this pattern-filled book. The popular segmentation style, which involves applying a pattern to wood, cutting the wood according to the pattern, rounding the edges, painting the pieces, and gluing them back into position on a plywood backing, is introduced and explained in these projects. The effect of the segmentation method is that the finished pieces resemble ceramic tile and stone mosaics created by the ancient Romans. Beginner or intermediate scrollers can simplify or complicate the projects by deleting or adding pattern lines.

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This creative guide to fashioning a hand-carved wooden nativity scene includes 15 patterns for every character present in the traditional Christmas story from the holy family and the three kings to shepherds and barnyard animals. An overview of tools, sharpening techniques, wood selection, and basic carving cuts is provided. The figurines of Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus are included with step-by-step instructions from the first to the final cut.

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This timeless collection of realistic projects for dedicated carvers features 21 stunning patterns of a wide range of small birds, including a blue jay, barn swallow, cactus wren, and so much more. With helpful instructions and detailed patterns for each project, also included are eight animal carving designs for a coyote, Canadian lynx, cheetah, and several others, as well as a bonus male and female caricature project. The perfect addition to every wood carver's library, Nature in Wood is a must-have source of inspiration for passionate carvers with a love for wildlife!

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