Woodworking Books

Wooden Boxes
by Dennis Lee Zongker

Skill-Building Techniques for Seven Unique Projects

A small box is an ideal woodworking project for anyone looking to gain skills and learn techniques. The reward is something elegant and functional that also makes a great gift. In this book, Dennis Zongker gives clear, step-by-step instructions for seven different projects (with variations), each designed to teach the reader skills that can be applied to a wide variety of box projects as well as to furniture and other woodworking projects.

The boxes featured are traditional in style, with a modern twist, and incorporate a rich variety of woodworking techniques from basic to advanced: wood selection, veneers, cutting, gluing, joinery (including elongated dovetail joints and lock miters), segmented turning, and routing inlays. Also included are detailed sections on carving and marquetry, which give these stylish boxes an elegant look that makes them stand out from the field.

Box Making Projects For The Scroll Saw
by Gary MacKay

30 Woodworking Projects that are Surprisingly Easy to Make

Now woodworkers of any skill level will be able to easily make their own decorative and functional boxes, using just one tool - the scroll saw. Author and heirloom box-maker, Gary MacKay, provides step-by-step photo demonstrations to create wood boxes with checkerboard, diamond and pinwheel effects. Patterns include eye-catching designs for jewelry and recipe boxes, tissue boxes, knitting trays and desk organizers.

Inside You'll Find:

• Expert advice on classic dovetail joints
• Patterns and designs for 30 quick and easy-to-make boxes
• Progressive learning format
• start with the basics and work toward advanced techniques

Box-Making Basics
by David M. Freedman

Design ideas, techniques, and projects from an expert box maker.

It took years for woodworker David Freedman to develop and perfect the box-making techniques he shares in this book. Accompanying his techniques are detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to make 16 handsome boxes. In addition to Freedman's designs, there are also selected projects from a number of professional box makers.

The Toolbox Book
by Jim Tolpin

A complete visual survey of toolboxes for everyone who values tools. Popular Fine Woodworking author Jim Tolpin's beautifully illustrated guide shows ingenious tool storage solutions from rugged, old-time journeyman's chests to today's versatile truck boxes. You'll learn to plan and design boxes to increase productivity, save time and prevent loss or misplacement of your valuable assets.

The Toolbox Book is filled with practical advice and ideas. Tolpin's creative storage strategies give you details for planning boxes, selecting materials, constructing and finishing the right box for the job.

Whether it's a simple tote, portable chest or complex, built-in system for use in the shop, off a truck or at the job site, Tolpin shows how to store, organize, protect and transport the tools of every craftsman's profession, trade or avocation.

Building Small Projects
by Editors of Fine Woodworking

Things to Build for Woodworkers of Every Skill Level

Small scale projects are a great way to use those off cuts you simply cant bear to throw away. Not only do small projects use less lumber, they make great gifts. This book offers a wide variety of woodworking gems on a smaller scale. There's something here to inspire any woodworker, with projects ranging in complexity from simple, but elegant boxes to a carved and upholstered Chippendale stool.

What's inside:

• Projects to make in a weekend
• Making mitered boxes
• Making perfect frames for pictures and mirrors
• Building compact, wall-hanging shelves and cabinets
• Designing and building occasional tables
• Detailed plans for comfortable and sturdy footstools

Basic Box Making Book
by Doug Stowe

Box making is perfect for beginning woodworkers interested in gaining skills, experimenting with design, and feeling satisfaction at a project that can be completed without the time and expense commitment of a bigger project. This book will offer basic designs, as well as many variations to teach different woodworking techniques while the reader creates a practical item or a gift that will become an heirloom. While this book will be enjoyed by beginners, it will also be great for any woodworker interested in small projects that can be done in a weekend with wood leftover from another project.

Custom Wooden Boxes For The Scroll Saw
by Diana L. Thompson

Learn How to Make Stunning and Treasured Gifts on Your Scroll Saw! From noted designer Diana Thompson comes her newest how-to book on scroll sawing—Custom Wooden Boxes for the Scroll Saw.

You'll learn the basics to making beautiful wooden keepsake boxes—including tips on tools, wood choices and finishing techniques. Easy-to-follow line drawings and color photographs will give you clear, step-by-step guides to four different designs:

• Jewelry Box
• Tiny Boxes
• Swan Music Box
• Custom Lids

This is followed by page after page of intriguing and beautiful patterns—including color photos each completed box. Inside you'll find more than 20 patterns for designs such as:

• Pencil Box
• Potpourri Box
• Dolphin Box
• Butterfly Box
• Tree of Life Box
• Double Heart Box
• Classic Round Box
• Whimsical Heart Box
• Holy Bible Box
• And much more!

Woodworker's Guide to Joinery (Back to Basics)
by Skills Institute Press

Straight Talk for Today's Woodworker

Woodworking should be a fun and fulfilling hobby. Bypass the overwhelming overload of woodworking information available, and get Back to Basics with the core information you need to succeed. This new series offers a clear road map of fundamental woodworking knowledge on sixteen essential topics.

In Woodworker's Guide to Joinery, you'll learn what is important to know now and what can be left for later. Best of all, the information is presented in the plain-spoken language you'd hear from a trusted friend or relative, and includes:

• Joinery basics from simple to ornate
• Why Butt Joints are an excellent option for many tasks
• Miter Joints - clean lines and more gluing area
• Lap and Groove Joints - strong and simple -
• Mortise-and-Tenon Joints - unparalleled resistance to most joint stresses
• Dovetail and Box Joints - practical solution to construction problems

The world's already complicated - your woodworking information shouldn't be.

52 Boxes In 52 Weeks
by Matt Kenny

Improve Your Design Skills One Box At A Time

What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine sets himself the challenge of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You get 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively simple—yet gracefully elegant—boxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build.

Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book:

• How to match grain at corners
• How to cut miters
• How to make tops and bottoms
• How to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now).

Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic. And then, of course, the book transitions to the 52 boxes themselves.