houtslager
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well folks, this is an interesting topic for all :lol: so here are a few books that I have picked up along the way.
All the best HS
- Readers Digest - DIY Manual, my dad and unvcle used this book to build a lot of furniture in the 60's and 70's so I inherited it.Good book for "dated" pieces of furniture. :wink:
The Victorian Cabinet Makers Assistant - data on Vicky designs
The Gentleman & Cabinet Makers Director - essential if restoring/copying Chippy Stuff :wink: - text ok - loads of line drawings
The History of English Furniture Age of Walnut - ditto - great text if heavy loads of line drawings
The History of English Furniture Age of Oak - ditto
Brakett - English Furniture Illustrated - heavy book and a good reference book to have on old techniques and furniture styles.
American Furniture of the 18th ct - ditto - great pictures text ok
Mouldings and turnings - minimal text - loads of line drawings - good reference book
David Charlesworth - ok book for making of classic furniture
James Krenov - ALL of - good inspiration for minimalist style furniture and techniques for hand tool users :wink:
Fine woodworking - treatise on Bending Wood - Great technical book good text and photos with line drawings too
for the hand tool freaks here eh ALF !
Garrett Wade TOOLS - great text on the tools and piccies to drool over
Jim Kingshott RIP - The Workshop Book - for ppl wishing to build from scratch a W/s - an okay book in terms of text/drawings/piccies
Scott Gibson - The Workshop - a DROOL BOOK in terms of text and piccies shame it is US based
Scott Landis - The Workshop Book - ditto - but still VERY useful on this side.
John Sainsbury - Woodworking Shop - pretty rubbish IMO - really for starters on tooling up, no layout ideas :evil:
Sam Allen - Workbenches - pretty good on the types to use/make loads of line drawings and B&W piccies
Bob Wearing - Making of woodwork Aids and devices - good book to have re Router aids and hand tool jigs -good text and line drawings some piccies
Scott Landis - The Workbench - A DROOL BOOK - great text on the history of the bench types of, with great piccies, line drawings and PLANS 8)
Fine Woodworking - Tips on Table saw Set up and use of - good book for everyone on setting up and use of - good text and good line drawings
Lazlo Katz -The Art of Woodworking and Furniture Appreciation -
a really good reference book on techniques and making of fine furniture,great text and B&W piccies AND line drawings
Monte von Dumont - HOLZ - a great GERMAN book covering the whole gamut of W-wking great text, good piccies and line drawings 8)
George Ellis - Modern Practical Joinery - one of the BIBLES for W-wkers good text loads of line drawings and some B&W piccies. A heavy going book not really for starters.
Ernst Joyce - The Techniques of Furniture Making - THE BIBLE for makers what can I say this is the new version with a forward by alan Peters and revised by him too :lol:
Sam Allen - Wood Joiners Handbook - same vein as GE's book but slightly more up to date :wink:
John Birchard - Make your own handcrafted Doors & Windows -
an okay book on this topic good text-piccies/line drawings though this is a US biased book still an ok book.
Rick Peters - W-wkrs Guide to Woos - a US based book fairly good on the types of wood, uses of and properties of also covers engineered woods ie ply's and mdf.Good text /piccies/line drawings. In general a fair book tho' US.
Apple - Woodworkers Joint Book - a handy reference book for in the shop.UK based book good piccies and line drawings tho' text is a bit weak
Stuart Spencer - the art of Wood Graining -
good book on this technique fair text and good piccies
Fred. Oughton - The complete manual on Wood Finishing -
To some this is the BIBLE of finishing. all in all a good book to have if you are not a Polisher :wink: I preferred C Haywards, but then I was taught the OLD fashioned way.
John Brown - Welsh Stick Chairs - Great book on the art of Chair making, great text and good B&W piccies and some line drawings.
Thos.Moser - Measured Shop Drawings - SHAKER styled designs - interesting text good piccies and many line drawings
Scott Swank - Shaker Life ..... - A coffee table book on the history of Mother Anne Lee and her ideas.- Good text/piccies little on Wood working but never the less a good book
June Sprigg and David Larkin - Shaker life and Work - ditto as above.
John Makepeace -Spirit of adventure in Craft & Design - A DROOL BOOK on design and QUALITY made furniture.
michael Bennent - Discovering and Restoring Antique Furniture -
A good reference book on what NOT to do and how to do it right.
Tim Forrest - Antique Meubelen - Dutch book on how to restore Antiques a .so so book translated from English
Frederik J Weijs - HOUT - a Dutch book over the general principles of wood working and WOOD its properties ,uses and ways of working in wood. simerlar but poorer in quality to the German book on W-wking
Well thats about it, apart from 30 years collection of THE WOOD WORKER, F&C from no.1 :lol: :wink: Practical Woodworking, FWW and other magazines.
All the best HS
