Cabinet Making - a foundation course
Furniture Making Book by John Bullar UK
Cabinet Making Chair Making Table Making Bookcase Making Bed Building Wardrobe Making Box Making
All the information you will need to succeed at Furniture Making
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Furniture Making Beginners - the ideal starting guide
Cabinetmaking Techniques - contains over 400 clear photos
Woodworking Glossary -
Over 100 cabinetmaking terms explained
Woodworking Tools - choosing and using for Making Furniture
Furniture Plans and Projects - start simple for beginners
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All about Cabinet Making Planes
How planes work and how to use them. Learn about hand plane cutters, chipbreakers, lever caps and frogs. Bench planes, smoothing planes, jack plane, jointers. The second chapter tells you about Bailey planes, Bedrock planes, Norris planes and block planes,
Make a cabinet from native elm
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.
Cabinet Makers Chisels
Chopping and paring with a chisel. Sharpening and honing, Oire Nomi Japanese chisels. When to use bevel edged chisels, firmer chisels and mortise chisels is explained in chapter 3.
Make an Oak Bookcase
Chamfered edges, dovetail housing joints, router joints, fine sanding Danish oil then beeswax. Arts & Crafts bookcase in solid oak.
Hand Sawing
Teeth per inch, saw kerf. Marking out, sawing to a knife line. This chapter is all about tenon saws, dovetail saws, rip-saws, crosscut saws.
Dovetail Joints
Through dovetail, lapped dovetails, half-blind dovetails, carcass dovetails and secret-mitre dovetails. Chapter 8 tells you how to mark and cut dovetail pins, shoulders, tails and shoulder lines.
Buy good timber, store it well
All about buying hardwoods - oak, walnut, ash, elm, kiln-dried or air-dried lumber. What is moisture content and why does it matter? Will you buy rough-sawn lumber or ready planed?
Carcass Joints
Sawing tenons, chopping mortises. Bridle joint, haunched mortise and tenon. Shoulder lines, tenon cheeks. Chapter 7 is all about mortise and tenon joints,
Make a Jewellery Box.
A real classic with curved panel produced by coopering technique, cutting fine dovetail joints on a bandsaw, dovetailed sides, fitting brass hinges - all this and more explained in detail.
Planer Thicknesser
Adjusting jointer knives. Sniped board end, grinding and honing a planer knife. Surface planing techniques, edge planing, jointing. Feeding a thicknesser,
Make an Oak Bed
Double mortise and tenon joints, unbolts for transport, biscuit joints, slatted headboard, divan support. Mission style king-sized bed in solid oak.
Circular saw bench
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.
Bandsaws
Chapter 13 gives details of cast iron table bandsaws, blade tension, bandsaw alignment, bandsaw guides, roller bearing, coolblock, ceramic guide, bandsaw teeth, tpi, skipped tooth, gullets, resawing,
Bandsawn Veneer
Chapter 16 tells you bandsaw blade width and tension for veneer thickness 2mm, gluing veneer, veneer presses, bag presses. Make your own veneers, is veneer as good as solid wood?
Make a Contemporary Table
bandsawing walnut veneer, secret dovetail corner joints, HVLP spray lacquer for a resistant acrylic finish.
Make a modern table - minimal style, walnut veneered top, solid walnut legs,
Laminating Wood
Gluing lamina, formers, cauls, cramping or clamping. Vacuum press, glue lines, finishing laminated wood. Chapter 15 tells you how to create curved wood, rip saw lamina with a bandsaw.
Curved Wood
Frames, lumbar support, templates and rods for chair stiles, legs, armrests, spokeshave, compass plane, router table, shaper/spindle moulder. Chapter 17 is all about Making chair parts.
Make an Oak stool
PVA glue, chamfered edges, beeswax polish. Try-square, marking knife, sawing tenon shoulders, edge joints and bridle joints,
Edge 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.
Cabinet Scrapers
Prepare a wood surface, scraper hook edge. Scratch stocks for fine inlay or shaped beading. Preparing and using fine edge scrapers, Goose neck scrapers.
Make Oak Bedside Cabinets
Drawers side hung rails, half blind dovetails, stub tenons. Mission style, arched mortice and tenon rails, slats, edge jointing boards,
Make an Oak Bed
Double mortise and tenon joints, unbolts for transport, biscuit joints, slatted headboard, divan support. Mission style king-sized bed in solid oak.
Make a Demilune table
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,
Make an Oak Wardrobe
Danish oil, bees wax, bronze Arts & Crafts handles. A mission style wardrobe, solid oak tapered frame, simple drawer construction, book matched door panels.
Making drawers
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.
Routers, Biscuits,
Dominos, Dowels
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.
Make Dining chairs
hollowing seats with a Router Arbortech or travisher, curved backrests, armrests with fox-wedged tenons.
Carver chairs in solid oak
About the Author
Since 1999 John Bullar has been writing for Furniture & Cabinetmaking and other UK and US Magazines ... more
Furniture Making Project and Techniques
Over 190 pages of jargon-free information
Available direct from
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
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Cabinet-Making - a foundation course
Furniture Making Beginners Book by John Bullar UK