What are your favourite books on the bookshelf

[DannyEssex]

I do love to have a good book to read and since becoming interested in woodwork I have started a small library of reference books. I find I enjoy and get more from the older books than i do from the hundreds of available modern books which apart from the cover look and read the same as each other.

My favourite books so far are:

Robert Wearing's The Essential Woodworker
Joyce's The Techniques of Furniture Making
John Bullars The Complete Guide to Joint-Making (quite a modern book)
Scot Landis The Workbench Book

And today I found for a whole pound in a charity shop.... The Practical Woodworker volume II original edition, after a quick flick through it looks like a very good addition. Im going to keep my eyes peeled for other volumes now.


So do you have any favourite books?

 

[dickm]

+ Robert Wearing's Resourceful Woodworker for recent(ish) ideas
and anything by Charles Hayward for classics.

 

[JustBen]

The ones that stand up straight and don't fall over

Does the Axminster catalogue count?

Most of the Clive Cussler books.
Collins Complete Woodworkers Manual,
Pleasure and profit from woodturning,

 

[dickm]

OK, if turning is also allowed, add Keith Rowley.

 

[Racers]

Kernov, Odate, Nakashima, Pye.

Pete

 

[marcros]

i find the jeff Jowett book on finishing to be very good, but it is not cheap (good value for what is in it).

In terms of maximum value, the Charles Haywood books to be very good. If you look on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Charles-H ... stripbooks at the amount that you can buy for the cost of postage, you cant go wrong.

 

[Glynne]

Pete,
Any particular book by Krenov?
I've been tempted to get one for a while and with Father's Day approaching.......
Glynne

 

[Argus]

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John Brown's book on Welsh Stick Chairs.

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[Racers]

Pete,
Any particular book by Krenov?
I've been tempted to get one for a while and with Father's Day approaching.......
Glynne

The Cabinetmakers Notebook would be the be one to get first.

Pete

 

[Nick Gibbs]

The ABC of Woodwork by Charles Hayward, because it's so brilliantly illustrated, and way ahead of its time
One Good Turn by Witold Rybczynski, because it's an interested take on a woodworking tool
Jack's Adventure by Edith Thacher Burd, because it helped get me into woodwork
The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye, because it makes you think about how things are made

Cheers

Nick