Woodworker's Visual Handbook

by John Arno

Book Overview

Whether new to woodworking or a seasoned pro, this handbook features more than 1,300 illustrations, charts, and graphs, making it a necessary resource for any woodworking library. Every aspect of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762102268
• ISBN13: 9780762102266
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Must for beginners.

This is a must for some one starting out in woodworking. I am an immediate woodworker and this still came in handy at times.

certainly not professional information but, ...

As noted in another review, I am not sure this would qualify as professional information. I am by no stretch of the imagination a professional woodworker! That said, this book does have a place in my library and I pick it up quite often as a supplement to my on the job training in woodworking. I feel it is meant to be more of a reference guide more than anything. The book highlights many of the popular joints, wood species and there uses, useful terminology (it has helped me not to sound like a babbling fool at the hardware and lumber store), and it also contains reference dimensions for furniture chairs (given as suggestions, more than cold hard numbers. ie, "you must build a chair this tall") It also includes a few jigs and ideas to make around the shop (nothing new) Overall a good reference book. Don't expect to learn woodworking from it.