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Introducing a new woodworking series in the tradition of Tage Frid...a series filled with essential information required by woodworkers today. For the first time ever, all the techniques and processes necessary to craft beautiful things from wood have been compiled into three comprehensive volumes:
The Complete Illustrated Guides. Highly visual and written by woodworking's finest craftsmen, these three titles --
Furniture & Cabinet Construction,
Shaping Wood, and
Joinery -- will establish a new standard for shop reference books.
Shape is critical to the ultimate success or failure of a piece of furniture. Knowing this, custom-furniture maker
Lonnie Bird has taken the complex subject of shaping and in this book made it accessible to every woodworker. He guides the reader toward first visualizing, then drawing a shape, and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it.
Shaping techniques of all kinds are covered here -- from the simplest ones to more complex bending and carving.
About the author
Lonnie Bird, a professional woodworker specializing in period furniture, runs a woodworking school in Dandridge, Tennessee.
Jeff Jewitt is a professional finisher and refinisher in Cleveland, Ohio and a contributing editor to "Fine Woodworking,"
Thomas Lie-Nielsen is the founder and owner of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks which manufactures high quality handtools. He lives in Warren, Maine.
Andy Rae, from Asheville, North Carolina, is a professional woodworker who writes frequently for woodworking magazines and teaches woodworking.
Gary Rogowski, a contributing to "Fine Woodworking," operates his own school, the Northwest Furniture Studio, in Portland Oregon.
Summary
Shape is critical to the ultimate success or failure of a piece of furniture. This book guides the woodworker towards first visualising, then drawing a shape, and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it. It covers shaping techniques of all kinds, from the simplest ones to more complex bending and carving.
