Cabinet Making
A FOUNDATION COURSE
Making Furniture - all the information you need to make chairs, tables, beds, boxes....
Woodworking Techniques - over detailed 400 photos.
Woodworking Tools - choosing and using the right equipment.
Furniture Plans, Projects start easy for beginners.
The complete Furniture Making Book by John Bullar
Woodworking Techniques and Projects
Over 190 pages of jargon-free information
Order direct from UK publishers:
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
or from Waterstones.com or Tesco.com Books or WHSmith.co.uk or Amazon.co.uk
Also published in US by Fox Chapel Publishing as
'Furniture Making - a foundation course'
Hand planes, how they work and how to use them. Learn about hand planes, bench planes, smoothing planes, jack plane, jointers. The second chapter tells you about Bailey planes, Bedrock planes, Norris planes and block planes,
Start by making this elegant straightforward project for the workshop or kitchen.
Learn about sawing tenon shoulders, edge joints and bridle joints, try-square, marking knife, glue, chamfered edges, beeswax polish.
Marking out, sawing to a knife line. This chapter is all about tenon saws, dovetail saws, rip-saws, crosscut saws, Teeth per inch, saw kerfs..
Learn about Chopping and paring with a chisel. Sharpening and honing, When to use bevel edged chisels, firmer chisels, mortise chisels, Japanese chisels explained
All about buying hardwoods - oak, walnut, ash, elm, kiln-dried or air-dried lumber. Wood moisture content, why does it matter? Will you buy rough-sawn lumber or ready planed?
Through dovetail, lapped dovetails, half-blind dovetails, carcass dovetails and secret-mitre dovetails. All in simple language. How to mark and cut dovetail pins, shoulders, tails and shoulder lines.
Find out about frame and panel work, mortise and tenon joints and dovetail carcass joints. Using a rebate plane, book-matched fielded panels, finish with Danish oil. Environmentally friendly woodwork.
Surface planing techniques, edge planing, jointing explained. Feeding a thicknesser, Adjusting jointer knives. Sniped board end, grinding and honing a planer knife.
cutting fine dovetail joints on a bandsaw explained, dovetailed sides, fitting brass hinges, curved panel made by coopering, all this and more explained in detail.
Changing saw blades, TCT blades, teeth per inch. Chapter 13 explains choosing and using table saws, Cabinet saws, dimension saws or panel saws, saw kickback, arbor, crown guard, riving knife or splitter.
Completre details of cast iron table bandsaws, blade tension, bandsaw alignment, bandsaw guides, roller bearing, coolblock, ceramic guide, bandsaw teeth, tpi, skipped tooth, gullets, resawing,
Make a Mission style king-sized bed in solid oak. Learn about double mortise and tenon joints, unbolts for transport, biscuit joints, slatted headboard, divan support.
Build a modern table - minimal style, walnut veneered top, solid walnut legs. Learn about bandsawing walnut veneer, secret dovetail corner joints.
Explanation of HVLP spray lacquer for a resistant acrylic finish.
Make your own veneers, is veneer as good as solid wood? This chapter tells you all about bandsaw blade width and tension for veneers, gluing veneer, veneer presses, bag presses.
This chapter teaches you about making chair parts. Frames, lumbar support, templates and rods for chairs, legs, armrests, Find out how to use a spokeshave, compass plane, router table, shaper / spindle moulder.
Sawing tenons, chopping mortises all made clear. Bridle joint, haunched mortise and tenon. Shoulder lines, tenon cheeks, all about mortise and tenon joints,
Use a try-square, plane accurate edges then parallel thicknessing. Chapter 6 tells you how to plane an accurate reference face. Use winding sticks or line of sight to guard against twisting.
Prepare a wood surface, scraper hook edge. Scratch stocks for fine inlay or shaped beading. Preparing and using fine edge scrapers, Goose neck scrapers.
Drawers side hung rails, half blind dovetails, stub tenons. Mission style, arched mortice and tenon rails, slats, edge jointing boards,
Double mortise and tenon joints, unbolts for transport, biscuit joints, slatted headboard, divan support. Mission style king-sized bed in solid oak.
Laminated oak apron rails, elliptical oak tabletop, ebony beading with a scratch stock, wooden sabots.
Contemporary interpretation of the classic demi-lune table in oak and ebony,
Danish oil, bees wax, bronze Arts & Crafts handles. A mission style wardrobe, solid oak tapered frame, simple drawer construction, book matched door panels.
Quarter sawn oak sides, cedar of Lebanon drawer base. Drawers with lapped dovetail joints, drawer slips, router jig dovetails. Drawer rails, kickers, runners, muntins, guides.
Domino jointers, biscuit jointers, dowel jointers. Explanation of router direction, fences, bearing guided cutter is in chapter 14, with dovetail jigs, mortise and tenon jigs.
hollowing seats with a Router Arbortech or travisher, curved backrests, armrests with fox-wedged tenons.
Carver chairs in solid oak
Since 1999 John Bullar has been writing for Furniture & Cabinetmaking and other UK and US Magazines
Furniture Making Project and Techniques
Over 190 pages of jargon-free information
Order direct from UK publishers:
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
or from Waterstones.com or Tesco.com Books or WHSmith.co.uk or Amazon.co.uk
Also published in USA by Fox Chapel Publishing as
Cabinet Making
A FOUNDATION COURSE