The Joinery Compendium - Learning from Traditional Woodworking
The Joinery Compendium is a collection of over 400 handcrafted wood joints from around the world. This unique compilation offers insights into the fascinating diversity of these joints, their history, and applications. At a time when...
Wilde Kanten, starke Möbel
Live-edge furniture is fascinating because each piece is unique, as no two trees are alike! In this easy-to-follow guide, you will first learn techniques for planing, drying and preparing your own wood board, as well as recessing inlays...
The Stick Chair Book
At first glance, it looks like you have to get special wood from the forest, buy a bunch of exotic tools, master a lot of crazy angles and learn high-tolerance carpentry to build a chair that is comfortable, stable and looks like a...
The Workbench Book
First published in 1987, »The Workbench Book« by Scott Landis is still the most comprehensive book about the main tools in the woodworking workshop. A richly illustrated guide to the world's best workbenches, from the traditional Shaker...
Türen selbst bauen
Few pieces of furniture are subjected to as much wear and tear as doors. External doors in particular require more knowledge and experience than furnishings. But like a table or shelf, their construction is simpler than you think once...
Schubladen und Türen
Well-designed and carefully built drawers and furniture doors turn a good piece of furniture into a very good piece. While it is relatively easy to build a furniture carcass, it is difficult to build drawers that run well, as well as...
Werken mit Holz
This wonderfully practical book is for anyone who wants to balance their day-to-day work with the relaxing hobby of woodworking. Working with wood will challenge, stimulate and relax you. You will be proud of the objects you have created...
James Krenov - Leave Fingerprints
James Krenov (1920-2009) was one of the most influential woodworking writers, educators and designers of the 20th century. After years of research and more than 150 interviews, Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney has written the first and...
Möbel aus Wildholz
Design, building techniques, objects. As nature shaped the wood, wild wood builders use it in their furniture. Daniel Mack’s book is an entertaining introduction to the subject, from materials and tools to building instructions for...
Hands Employed Aright - The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher
In this book, the author Joshua A. Klein, founder of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, presents the perhaps most comprehensive record of the life of American craftsman Jonathan Fisher, who lived in the early 19th century. With the help of...
Bänke aus Holz
In their new book, the Rittermann twins have set out in search of home-made benches. Whether in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin or the Swiss mountains, or along the Baltic coast, the sisters have come across a wide range of different...
Joiner's Work
Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It is neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors - all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and...
Grundlagen Holzarbeiten, Werkzeuge - Techniken - Erste Werkstücke
This book contains all the basics required for beginners to woodworking. In addition to the basic tools and their use, it covers correct measuring and marking, drilling, sawing, chiselling, hammering, glueing and grinding. It describes...
Die Werkzeugkiste des Anarchisten
The title comes across as rather poetic, on second thought, though, it hits the nail on the head. In this book, Christopher Schwarz, the internationally known author and woodworker, summarizes necessary and unnecessary developments of...
Dornach Design, Möbelkunst 1911 bis 2011
Design as art - furniture as sculpture: The history of anthroposopic interiors spans nearly a hundred years, during which architects, sculptors, painters and carpenters translated Rudolf Steiner's stylistic visions into individual form...
The Difference Makers
For over 25 years, Marc Adams has invited hundreds of the best craftsmen and women to teach at his woodworking school in Franklin, Indiana, which has grown to become the largest. Every year, thousands of students soak up the instruction...
Der Möbelbau
First published in 1954, this classic remains just as topical today. Its importance is derived from the systematic instructions, descriptive illustrations and detailed descriptions of the joints and other techniques of woodworking craft....
Japanische Verbindungen
Dorian Bracht takes his readers into the world of Japanese wood joints. Inspired by historical masterpieces and the desire to craft each of these intricate joints himself, he shares his knowledge in this unique book. With 68 detailed...
Holzverbindungen
The comparison of Japanese and European wood joints broadens perspectives and leads to new construction solutions in the area of sophisticated artisan woodworking. The author presents a number of interesting and unusual examples and uses...
Werkstatthilfen selber bauen
Have you ever held a workpiece in your hands and thought "How on earth am I going to work on this?". This book by Sandor Nagyszalanczy, former editor of "Fine Woodworking" magazine, provides clear instructions on how to make templates...
Kästen und Schachteln perfekt konstruieren und bauen
In this book, Doug Stowe explains everything you need to know about boxes - from selecting and working the raw materials, right through to joining techniques and possible fittings. Following step-by-step instructions organised in...
Holz biegen
How do you bend or deform wood? This book presents the whole spectrum of different methods. In addition to basic procedures and the required equipment, Wolfgang Fiwek gives an insight into all manner of workshops, from cane makers to...
Holzwerken - Die besten Projekte
From small to large, from a smart gift to a foldable dining room table. From simple to sophisticated, from quick and easy to time-intensive: ambitious woodworkers are sure to find new challenges, new project ideas. 23 detailed...
Möbelbau - Grundlagen, Konstruktionen, Tricks & Kniffe
German version of the Fine Woodworking book on »Furniture & Cabinet Construction«. After a brief introduction to materials and tools, this book gets right to the point, covering all basic constructions from cabinets, boxes, shelves,...
Hobelbänke
In this book, the world-renowned author and woodworker Christopher Schwarz will guide you to your personally ideal workbench. He summarizes the history of workbenches during the last few centuries and specifies the essential properties...
HolzWerken - Die besten Tipps und Tricks
The most useful tips from the first 47 issues of HolzWerken magazine. A treasure of smart ideas and tips for woodworkers. This book provides the straight tip for everyone, featuring precise explanations and numerous photographs and...
Wildholz-Möbel
Some branches and a few tools are enough to enter the fascinating world of rough wood joinery. The many step-by-step projects allow the reader to learn how to take the organic shapes of the material and find the technically correct...
Holzverbindungen - Auswählen, konstruieren, bauen
This book is a complete compilation of Western style wood joinery. From the most basic butt joints to sophisticated mortise and tenon joints. Each of the 12 chapters focuses on the specific problems, techniques, materials, and tools that...
Perfekte Verbindungen
Professional furniture maker John Bullar explains the essentials of well-fitting wood joints and the application of selected hand and power tools. Clear instructions with step-by-step illustrations show the designing and cutting of 34...
Holzwerken - Werkstatteinrichtung
The workshop is the most important space for the woodworker. And the effort put into fitting it out reflects that. This book gathers together the most useful projects from 10 years of woodworking. As well as ideas for new workbenches and...
HolzWerken - Die besten Vorrichtungen
19 self-constructed aids for saw, router, and workbench. They are helpful and valuable when working with machines and tools. And often easy to make yourself! The most popular topics on making your own apparatuses have been compiled in a...
Handbuch der Konstruktion: Möbel und Einbauschränke
This standard reference for furniture design provides rapid and reliable information on all imaginable design details for constructing furniture and built-in cupboards. It shows design variants for corner joints, frame and housing...
Handbuch der Konstruktion: Innenausbau
This popular standard reference for interior fittings provides readers with rapid and reliable information on numerous design variants which take into consideration the relevant standards. It also contains almost 500 detailed drawings in...
Tische - 17 Bauprojekte für jedes Niveau
Twelve authors from the American journal »Popular Woodworking« offer 17 different table construction proposals. This book features various styles of projects, including simple tables, historical models, as well as variants with a drawer,...
HolzWerken - Grundkurs Möbelbau
This book by Heiko Rech provides a thorough introduction to furniture making. The first part consists of the basic chapters workshop planning, wood, hand tools, sawing, milling, grinding and finishing. These basic chapters are...
The Intelligent Hand
This book profiles David Savage, the UK’s best-known contemporary furniture maker, and his exceptional career. The author is known for defying standard woodworking practices. His goal is to create things that are »beautiful and useful«...
Praktische Werkstattmöbel
This book provides basic knowledge on the subject of workshop equipment, from building your own clamping aids and workbenches to the appropriate arrangement of manual and machine workstations. The author also focuses on how to keep the...
Making Shoji
Masterpieces of Japanese craft culture. In this book, Toshio Odate explains how to make a Japanese sliding door, from layout to gluing on the paper. Having been trained himself as a tategushi (sliding-door maker) in Japan, he gives...
The Essential Woodworker
This revised edition of the renowned text written in 1988 is an invaluable collection of all woodworking basics using hand tools. It covers a wide range of techniques and carpenter’s pieces of wisdom, it shows many illustrations of...
By Hand & Eye
This book provides a deep insight into the world of architecture and design. Instead of complex formulae with magical names like the golden ratio, the authors present simple ubiquitous proportions that were already used in crafts before...
Campaign Furniture
For almost 200 years, simple and sturdy pieces of campaign furniture were used for travel all over the globe, and yet this remarkable furniture style is now virtually unknown to most woodworkers and furniture designers. Campaign pieces...
Chairmaker's Notebook
Gain an insight into the art of chairmaking on 406 pages. With this book, both the experienced chairmaker and the hobbyist will get their money's worth. Professional chairmaker Peter Galbert brilliantly explains all necessary work steps...
The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley
In a space of just 25 x 100 cm, Henry O. Studley managed to artfully arrange more than 250 of his tools into a dovetailed mahogany cabinet. Since it was first unveiled in 1988 on the cover of »Fine Woodworking«, this cabinet has...
The Anarchist's Design Book - Expanded Edition
Most of the American furniture we celebrate as the pinnacle of design is overbearing, over-embellished and a monument to waste and excess. These are precious pieces that are auctioned, collected, reproduced and written about in...
With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture
This book is the first English translation of the 18th century masterpiece »L'art du Menuisier« by André-Jacob Roubo. »Roubo on Furniture« is full of insights into wood processing and furniture making that, even nowadays, are hard or...
Chairmaking & Design
This extensively revised and updated book is dedicated to chair design. Through seven elegant chair projects, Jeff Miller explores and exposes the art of chair making. Informative details on construction and design principles as well as...
Shaker Inspiration
»Shaker Inspiration« begins with information that all woodworkers need - the nitty gritty of how to successfully make trees into furniture. This requires a firm grasp of wood movement - one of Chris's specialties - and he shares many of...