A guide to traditional whittling which explains how to carve many items popular in American tramp art and more complicated items, such as continuous wooden chairs, hand tools, puzzles, balls inside spirals, swivels, entwined hearts, and buildings inside bottles.
Turned Chessmen' describes the history, design and making of turned, particularly wood, chessmen. The book also includes practical chapters on how to design, turn and carve chessmen, and a gallery of recent chess sets, with ten accurate drawings which can be copied to make chess sets.
A book covering the UK and European Health and Safety directives. It deals with various aspects of this useful woodworking machine, including spindle speeds, cutting action theory, operation safety, cutter and cutter types and their preparation and performance, development of cutters, grinding, profiling and development.
This second edition is exceptionally well illustrated with hundreds of drawings and photographs covering every conceivable aspect of manufacture, maintenance, grinding and sharpening circular saws of all types, together with the application and safe use of circular saws throughout the woodworking industry.
Covers design and techniques for producing fine pieces of turned woodwork using off-centre and segmented methods, coopering and laminating. The book includes a probjects section as well as ten chapters, each devoted to an individual aspect of design.
This guide contains advice for craftworkers on marketing and promoting their products. It discusses finance, marketing and creating a customer base. It also covers "image" topics such as sales opportunities, exhibition organizing, public relations and approaching the media.
Five designs for wooden clock cases, especially for woodturner's, complete with measured plans and stage-by-stage drawings and full instructions are included in this book.