New Books

Our Guild’s library has acquired five new books and two new DVD’s, all by Doug Stowe.  Here are their titles.

Basic Box Making DVD

Rustic Furniture Basics DVD

Making Elegant Custom Tables

Rustic Furniture Basics

Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques

Basic Box Making

Box Making

The author, Doug Stowe, is the woodworker from Hot Springs, Arkansas, who recently taught a course in box making at our Guild’s shop.  A number of members who took Doug’s course have since shown off their boxes at Show & Tell.

Members do not have to wait until a membership meeting to check materials out of our library.  A self-check system is in place – just look for the white wooden box in the library.  You may check out materials whenever you are in the shop.

With regard to our library’s electronic media, your library staff realizes that many people no longer play video tapes at home.  So, we are working on expanding our collection of DVD’s.  If you have any DVD’s you would like to donate just drop them off in the library the next time you come to the shop.

Books For the Band Saw Month, January, 2011

January is Band Saw Month.  Check out our books.  Following are just a few of our books pertaining to band sawing.  To find more come in and browse.  Remember, too, that on the Internet there is a wealth of information regarding all aspects of wood working.  Good sources of inexpensive used books are abebooks.com and alibris.com.

The Band Saw Book, With 20 Projects, by R J De Cristofore

Popular Science has referred to the author as “the outstanding tool authority in the world.”  He has more than twenty other books to his credit.

Chapters include Blades for the Band Saw, Straight Sawing, Resawing, Angular Sawing, Compound Sawing, Special Applications, Sawing Metals, The Band Saw As Sander and etc.

Projects include boxes, clown cutouts, bird feeders, end table, stools, plant stand, trays, Spanish table, napkin holder, cutting boards, spatulas, sculptures, magazine rack, shelf brackets, band-sawed letters and etc.

Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass by Dannis Waring & David Raymond, © 2001

The authors are instrument makers, performers and teachers.

Six-string and bass guitars are covered.  Sections include Design Considerations, Body, Neck & Headstock, Fingerboard and Finishing and etc.  There is an eighteen page section on electronics.

Weekend Toy Projects You Can Make

Riding toys, pull toys, trains, boats, planes, Barbie’s Dreamworld, King Arthur’s castle and etc.

Fun-To-Make Wooden Toys by Terry Forde

A British book with a British flair.  Projects include kinetic toys, puzzles, fairy tale toys (Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland), construction toys, farm toys, vehicles, service station, doll kitchen, thatched Devon cottage, toddler’s merry-go-round, castle, chromatrope, thaumatrope and etc.

Easy-To-Make Wooden Toys by Terry Forde

Projects include vehicles, a garage, wild west fort, cowboy town, boats, Noah’s ark, zoo, castles, puzzles, doll’s houses, trains, railway station, games, picnic table, lace-up shoe, crib mobile and etc.

550 Wood Patterns  The title says it all.

Thanks to the generosity of Larry Welling, whom some of you old-timers may remember, our Guild’s Library has some new books.  Following is some brief information on some of them.  All of them will be available to be checked out at our next meeting.

Do-It-Yourself Coffins by Dale Power. For woodworkers who want to be buried in their work.

Making The Classic Windsor Chair by Robert Marquis

Wood Projects for the Garden and Outdoor Building Projects by Byron W. Maguire, Spring will be here sooner than you think!

The Well-Crafted Workshop by Nick Engler, Includes eight plans for projects for your workshop.

Country Woodworking by Mary Jane Favorite & Nick Engler, Includes plans for thirty-five easy-to-make accent pieces.

Making Rocking Horses by Anthony Dew

Making Whirligigs & Other Wind Toys by Sharon Pierce, Racing jockeys and many other plans.

Creating Small Wood Objects as Functional Sculpture by Dona Z. Meilach, Get in touch with your inner artist.

Build Your Own Log Furniture by Les Smith & Dan Swesey

We have received two new books on designing and setting up a woodworking shop. These two books contain hundreds of color photos of woodworking shops from home and abroad, used to illustrate practical ideas for your shop.  Both books were published by The Taunton Press. 

Setting Up Shop, The Practical Guide to Designing and Building Your Dream Shop by Sandor Nagyszalanczy, 220 pages

The Workshop Book by Scott Landis, 216 pages

Gift Projects by the editors of Woodsmith magazine.  There are three sections to this book:  Especially For Kids, Scroll Sawn and Keepsakes.  Each section includes plans and instructions for five to seven projects.

Children’s Furniture You Can Make by Paul Gerhards.  Bunks & bureaus, toy chests & high chairs, cradles & computing tables and etc.

The Art of Making Elegant Wood Boxes by Tony Lydgate.  Twenty-three projects from Tony and other craftsmen, none of which require the use of a radial arm saw.

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