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Books that might interest woodworkers..

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  • 12-03-2007 1:02pm
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    carpainter
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    Just recently purchased a couple of new books online, which I would like to recommend to others on this site. I bought "A guide to hand tools" and "Furniture Making Techniques" both by David Charlesworth and they are really very good. I've been trying to buy quality books on the subject of woodworking for a number of years now and aside from those published by Taunton it can be difficult. But these two get the thumbs up and they weren't expensive either, a little less than €15 each, which is good value considering the cost of a trade mag now.


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    dubtom
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    I joined a book club a few years back and have quite a few books now.Most I have to admiit are fairly complicated for my novis skills but I enjoy looking at the pictures:rolleyes: If I can possibly do something without complicted joinery I will which is why most of my efforts are ehh, efforts.:)


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    JoeB-
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    'The techniques of furniture making' by Ernest Joyce. I own it and it's very good, many people call it 'the bible' of cabinet making.
    It seems to have been written many years ago but it does cover a lot of stuff including stuff not spoken about much today at all... a very authorative source.

    I find Amazon are good for books (d'oh).

    I also have a book (by Taunton I reckon) 'Woodworking With the Router: Bill Hylton'... this has some good tips and jigs, many are available elsewhere but still a good book.

    The Dick tools catalogue is amazing... and free!... it is obviously about tools but has much info on loads of things, excellent! I have to say it contains some of the worlds finest tools, specialised tools and very interesting info.
    www.dick.biz


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    carpainter
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    David Charlesworth makes reference to that book by Joyce, must see if it can be bought online. I've bought my more recent books from The Book Depository; delivery is free which is a great advantage over Amazon. The Dick catalogue is good alright; I used to buy from them but found them to be margianlly more expensive than their competitors. More recently I've been buying from Dieter Schmidt (Fine Tools) an Axminster. The Fine Tools website has some good info on it also.


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