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WOODWORKING
Complete Woodworking Guide for Beginner's With Step-by-Step Instructions
I found my way into fine woodworking shortly after graduating college, in 2003. I took a 2 week introduction to the fundamentals of fine woodworking at Boston€s North Bennet Street School. From there, I spent 3 years working at woodworking specialty retail stores, went to North Bennet full time for 2 more years, and set up shop as a custom furniture maker, which lasted for just over 7 years. Woodworking, on many levels, is an ongoing process of reduction and refinement: Big trees into big boards, into smaller boards, into smaller pieces. Grinding cutting tools, and then honing, and polishing the edges. Rough shaping, scraping and filing of wood, followed by coarse sanding, and on into finer grits. And, the progression of learning the rough basics, and the ongoing refining what you know, and what you can do. The purpose of this book is to provide a coarse introduction to getting into the hobby. I assume that you€ll seek out other sources of information as the need arises. Woodworking as a craft spans thousands of years, and I couldn€t hope to cover all that ground. Books have been published on the topic for centuries. Taunton Press started printing Fine Wood Working 40 years ago, and many other magazines have since come and gone, or showed up and stayed. And the internet, bless its tainted soul, has been ranting and raving at an exponential rate about just about anything for over 20 years. Information overload is a real risk, especially on the internet, and I can€t stress enough that it€s something to be careful of. But in the end, any real learning that occurs will happen at the bench, as you feel for yourself how your tools are working. You€ll understand more as you see how the project comes together. You€ll get better at visualizing objects, and processes, in three dimensions, as you make the things with your own hands. The printed word can only convey so much, and it doesn€t hold a candle to what your own two hands will tell you. WOODWORKING
Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...

• Tools and Getting Set Up
• Materials
• Working With Wood
• Sanding and Finishing
• Hand Held Power Tools
• Joinery
• Design
• Suggested First Projects
• Much, much more!