This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the all-important subject of choosing, designing, and cutting woodworking joints. It's packed with insightful information and tricks of the trade that will advance the work of novices and seasoned craftsmen alike. Because whatever your skill level, there's always room for improvement when it comes to joinery. Topics covered: - Lay out and cut accurate dovetails - Fix common joinery mistakes - Cut a mortise in minutes - Create a versatile jig for miters - Join curved parts with ease - Build strong pocket-hole joints.

Takes viewers through building and finishing a bookcase wall unit using biscuits. Also explains how to plan wall units, design drawers, doors, and shelves, choose the right kind of plywood, cut sheetgoods on the tablesaw, make a simple biscuit joinery fence, use knockdown hardware, edge plywood, and glue and assemble a bookcase.

Expert instructions for honing your joinery skills.

Frank Klausz demonstrates and explains each step in the process--cutting the stock to size, running the groove for the drawer bottom, cutting the dovetails, and gluing up and fitting the drawer.

This step-by-step shop reference, culled from the first six volumes of Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guides, covers all of the fundamental techniques every woodworker needs to know. Organized for quick access, this book makes it easy to find the information you are looking for. Over 1,200 photos and drawings illustrate how to accomplish essential woodworking tasks from setting up a shop to finishing.

Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity--and creativity--in the shop. In this video, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout the subtle shapes necessary to create a handsome hand mirror.

When Jimmy Carter was a boy he helped break the land with a mule-drawn plow. It was slow and tedious work. But, "looking back at the end of a day and seeing how much cropland had been prepared for planting," he says, "I enjoyed a sense of accomplishment and self-satisfaciton, knowing that I had done all that was humanly possible, even as a young boy, and had left behind me the visible proof of my work." He continues: "I still have similar emotions while working in my woodshop. Periods of drudgery that come with the repetitive use of chisel, drawknife, spokeshave, plane, rasp, scraper, sandpaper, or paint brush fade into relative insignificance when I can examine the result of my labor. The excitement of an original design, the meticulous detail of precise measurements, the characteristics of the chosen wood, the heft and beauty of the hand tools - some of them ancient in deisgn - are all positive aspects of crafting a piece of furniture. I like to see what I have done, what I have made

Klausz demonstrates three different techniques for making three variations on the mortise-and-tenon joint. You'll learn: how to make a haunched mortise-and-tenon joint for a table; how to make a through/wedged mortise-and-tenon joint; and to make angled joints for a chair.

Owner of the world's largest woodworking school, Marc Adams never compromises on safety and knows a multitude of ways to tap the full potential of the tablesaw. Here, he demonstrates surefire tablesaw techniques developed over decades, including: safety guidelines, understanding kickback and preventing it, upgrades every saw needs, using sleds and accessories, ripping, crosscutting, joint-cutting techniques, and more. The right way to use a tablesaw is the safe way.