Come on, kids: Grab a hammer, step up to the workbench, and get ready to measure, saw, drill, and make cool things! Wood Shop is an exciting introduction for today's kids to an ages-old tradition: building with wood. With step-by-step photographs and clear instructions, aspiring woodworkers learn essential skills such as how to drive a nail, use a power drill, "measure twice, cut once," and saw correctly. Then the fun begins as they put these skills...

This amazing title instructs young readers on how to shape wooden objects based on their own, unique ideas. Kids will explore this exciting and popular field by learning a few basic techniques of woodworking and what tools to use, which they can then experiment with in safe and accessible projects. Makers and Shakers sidebars introduce kids to furniture makers and builders and to different styles in woodworking.--

''Hey Kids! Grandpa Bob here, ready to show you the 20 woodworking tools you should have and I'll teach you how to use them. So, what's in your toolbox? Do you even have one and do you know how to use the tools that are in it? You may not if no one has shown you and that's where I come in. By the time you finish this book you will know: Where to get your tools / Why you need to learn to use your tools correctly / How to take care of your tools /...

Hands-on involvement separates the craftsman from the collector. Whether you are an armchair craftsman or a shop dust veteran. you are invited to participate in the process of tool making described in the pages of this book. These tools harken to the classic period of woodworking, 1700 to 1900, when a student made his tools as part of his education in moving from apprentice to journeyman. In the late 1800s a series of changes in how wood tools were...

Everything a woodworker needs to know at a glance. Loads of information about everything from joints to woods to tools in an easy-to-read, quick-to-find format.

First published in 1937, this woodworking classic reveals a fascinating look into the social structure of a 19th-century English town and a carpenter's place in it. Encapsulating a time prior to power tools and mass production, when woodworkers made virtually everything, Walter Rose writes eloquently on a number of topics, including running a country business; the carpenter's shop; working on a farm, new home, and windmill; undertaking; and furniture...

Uniting form and function without complicated joinery or the need for a shop full of tools this crafting guide offers step-by-step instructions and patterns for 24 unique keepsake boxes, made exclusively with the scroll saw. Incorporating popular scroll saw techniques like fretwork, segmentation, intarsia, and layering, the projects include a holiday cardholder, a desktop organizer, a patriotic flag box, and themed ideas for hikers, patriots, cowboys,...