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Scrit, I don't suppose you know if the second book is just a rehash of the work in the first one, do you? I have "Solid-Wood Cabinet Construction" and love it, and I've found a second-hand bookshop with a copy of the earlier book but it is pretty expensive (£35) so I don't really want to buy it if it is very similar.Scrit":3ukyj9jb said:Try Franz Karg's "Modern Cabinetmaking in Solid Wood" (Bell & Hymann: ISBN 0 7135 1203 2) if it's still available (published 1980), or his later book "Solid-Wood Cabinet Construction" (Taunton, 1991: ISBN 0 942391 97 7).
Well I have both books on the desk in front of me right now and I can honestly state that, no it isn't a rehash, although the work in the later book is in the same idiom the first book - similar design philosophy and the same type of cross-section construction diagrams (only to be expected as Karg was director of the technical college which produced the people featured in both books). In the second book I feel that the work is a bit more varied with more wood/glass display cases, desks, etc. If you didn't have the second book then I'd recommend the first, but at £35 it seems a bit pricey. I suppose that's what happens to all these books. They become collectors pieces in such a short timeNeil":5sze1m5t said:I don't suppose you know if the second book is just a rehash of the work in the first one, do you?
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