
Woodworking Basics
Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship An Integrated Approach With Hand and Power tools
by Peter Korn
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appears in Carpentry and Woodworking.
Based on a twoweek course in woodworking fundamentals offered at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Camden, Maine, this book takes a traditional approach to teaching, with the idea that learning basic skills is essential to craftsmanship. In the process, the book covers all the basesfrom working with hand tools to cutting dovetails. Inclu...
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appears in Carpentry and Woodworking.
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Consider Good Clean Fun by Nick Offerman.
“Good Clean Fun reads like an affectionate tour of a one-man woodshop: project tales, backstage stories, and workshop philosophy delivered in Offerman’s blunt, deadpan voice. Its useful part is the steady celebration of manual craft—concrete descriptions of projects, tool talk, and the dignity of hands-on labor that make you want to visit a shop. Limitation: it’s not an instruction manual or deep cultural critique; punchlines and persona recur, so readers wanting tighter editing or new ideas throughout may find chapters repetitive.”
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