Fine Woodworking on Wood and How to Dry It: 41 Articles

by Fine Woodworking Magazine and Paul Bortorelli

Book Overview

Learn how to buy, dry, store and mill timber. This text explains which species are good for which jobs and how to design joints that accommodate wood's seasonal swelling and shrinking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091880454X
• ISBN13: 9780918804549
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

If it's from Taunton, it must be great.

Once again Taunton Press delivers a fine product. Been a subscriber to Fine Woodworking since issue 1.

A fun read

Like other Fine Woodworking books it's basically a collection of articles from their magazine. But they are very interesting articles. I enjoyed reading it and learned alot about how to cut and dry lumber myself. Plenty of info on air drying and solar kilns but I wished it revealed the mysteries of a large kiln. I would like to see a drying table with humidity control and more on stress relieving wood.

Excellent resource for sawing/drying/do-it-yourself kilning.

Book is a compilation of articles on growing timber,sawing methods using a variety of mill types as well as how to stack and air dry lumber. It also includes a detailed section on kiln construction for the hobbiest. Different types of kiln plans are included including solar, and dehumidification types. Overall, an inexpensive resource with a lot of usefull information for the serious wood hobbiest that harvests, saws and drys their own lumber.