Good Wood Joints Review

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(More customer reviews)This book shows almost every wood joint invented. It shows where these joints are best served (for drawers, tables, chairs, etc). It ranks the best wood choices for the best joints, and the ease of making them with or without the proper tool. After the charts, it details the procedures for creating each joint.

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Cabinetmaking Procedures for the Small Shop: Commercial Techniques That Really Work Review

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(More customer reviews)As a professional furniture maker building his first kitchen, I found Fristad's book the most useful of the three I read - the other two being the best sellers. This book is about production; how to make money; how not to make mistakes; how to streamline the process; how to get the sequence right. It covers both frame and frameless cabinets. No pictures, but lots of good drawing that are really all that are needed. While you need to know the information contained in the other books, this book fills in all the gaps that the others leave out. I recommend this book both to pros and people building a kitchen only for themselves.

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Popular Woodworking Practical Shop Math Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is one of those rare ones where the title literally says it all: It's a practical shop math guide; however, it's also a little more than that.
The book starts with a review of basic math, focusing on operations involving fractions, followed by a review of basic geometry. The material about converting decimals to standard fractions is particularly good. The author does a very good job of offering a comprehensive review without being condescending or insulting. There are lots of examples and even exercises designed to allow you to test your understanding.
The heart of the book is the section called "Using Math in the Workshop." This focuses on those things that should be simple, but which can drive you nuts, such as enlarging grid patterns, determining miter angles for polygons, dividing angles and arcs, calculating board feet, and so on.
There's a sort of bonus feature I liked a lot, a very clear explanation of how to convert a picture into a dimensional drawing. This allows you to do something that seems impossible: You can make an actual plan out of a picture in a catalog or magazine. (It's not really easy to do so, but at least it's possible.)
The book is very high quality and easy to use. The paper is thick and glossy, so it should be durable in the shop. It's spiral-bound, so the pages lay flat.
After having it for just a few days, I can see that this book will become one of my most useful woodworking tools. I'm VERY happy I bought it, and I recommend it most highly.

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Woodworkers need to use math every time they go into the shop, but trying to remember every formula or conversion is almost impossible. Now, woodworkers don't need to remember anything about math, except where to find the answers! "Popular Woodworking's Shop Math" explains woodworking math formulas and conversions in simple layman's terms, and includes sections on working with fractions and decimals, enlarging grid patterns, converting a photograph into a dimensioned drawing and more. Portable and easy-to-use, this handy guide makes the perfect comprehensive "cheat sheet" to woodworking math.

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