Woodworking Books

For everyone who enjoys attracting wildlife to their backyard, farm, woodlot, or lakeshore home, Woodworking for Wildlife is the perfect resource. With all the latest information on how to attract everything from bluebirds, chickadees, purple martins, and wood ducks to bumblebees, toads, owls, and woodpeckers, the book features thirty designs for nest boxes and nest platforms that will accommodate forty-six species of wildlife. It provides easy-to-follow diagrams for cutting out and assembling the nest boxes, accompanied by over three hundred beautiful color photographs. Carrol L. Henderson has dramatically improved and expanded the book with the best techniques for building, placing, and managing nest boxes. He provides new information on how to eliminate predation on nest boxes by raccoons and cats, as well as how to reduce competition from exotic species such as house sparrows and starlings. The book also includes new designs for houses for flickers, great crested flycatchers, toad

Discover How to Make Beautiful Wood Furniture & Structures in Just One Day with This Easy to Use Guide This book includes a detailed description of the tools you need, the woods available, as well as how to plan and construct your project. For thousands of years, wood has been one of the most used materials in building many items, from furniture, to vehicles, to buildings. Even with the emergence of new materials like metal and plastics, wood has been the “go to” material for construction given it’s availability and ease of use. There are so many advantages to learning this art form. First, it will give you plenty of useful practical skills to use around the house. With wood being one of the most common materials used for anything from furniture to building materials, knowing how to work with wood will be a great money saver. This is especially the case when it comes to repairs, where hiring a professional carpenter or repairman to do the work can set you back hundreds of dollars.

Woodworking Simplified Book 1: Your How-To Guide for Making Beautiful and Functional Projects" is the first book in a series written especially for novice or beginning woodworkers. If you're a beginning woodworker struggling to learn techniques to build attractive and functional projects for your home, family, or friends, Woodworking Simplified is for you. Not only will you be able to build the projects in this book and the entire series but you can do it using inexpensive, consumer brand tools. This is the book I wish I'd had 35 years ago. I don't mind telling you that when a couple hired me to design and build a custom bedroom - bed, side towers, light bridge, headboard with storage, dresser, entertainment center, everything - I was nervous. Even though I'd operated my woodworking business for a while, this job was much more ambitious then anything to date. There was nothing to do but plunge ahead and make it work. It was a challenging time. Happily they loved it