Turned Boxes

Author: Chris Stott
Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Limited
ISBN: 9781861082039
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Fifty projects, showcasing an incredible richness of shapes and styles, will appeal to turners who have mastered the basics and long to expand their range of techniques. Among the highlights: graceful teardrop, Japanese lantern, skep or beehive, onion-top, and Mosque boxes. Each design comes with a working drawing (usually full-size) and color photographs. Bonus: a gallery of works by leading turners.

The Art of Making Small Wood Boxes

Author: Tony Lydgate
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806995762
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Written instructions, photographs, designs, patterns, and projects.

Useful Woodturning Projects

Author: Woodturning Magazine
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780946819805
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
A project book for those seeking a varied range of ideas for things to make on the lathe. Included are articles from out-of-print issues of Woodturning magazine. 29 illustrated projects are featured with additional tips and hints. Projects include: trays; bookends; lids; eggs; a three-tier tripod table; vases; bird house; knobs and handles; salad bowls; collapsible beaker; pepper mill; threaded lid boxes; tool handles; mushrooms; and natural top bowls.

Turned Boxes

Author: GMC.
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784942489
Category : Turning (Lathe work)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Turned Boxes is a must for all keen woodturners. The fantastic projects include designs to suit all levels of ability as well as taste - from simple boxes to more intricate designs incorporating screw threads and exotic timbers. Most of the projects include helpful tips and hints that will help to ensure a perfect result and all projects include detailed instructions along with either step-by-step photography or easy-to-use diagrams. Turned Boxes projects include: endgrain boxes, kitchen storage jars, offset lidded form, spinning top box, tunbridge ware box.

Anarchist's Tool Chest

Author: Christopher Schwarz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578084138
Category : Carpentry
Languages : en
Pages : 475

Book Description

Turning Bowls with Richard Raffan

Author: Richard Raffan
Publisher: Taunton
ISBN: 9781561585083
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents full-color illustrated instructions to making wooden bowls, and provides advice on tools, wood selection, and design, solving common turning problems, surface embellishments, and finishing techniques.

Living Up The Street

Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0440211700
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

The Art of Segmented Woodturning

Author: Malcolm Tibbetts
Publisher: Linden Publishing
ISBN: 9780941936866
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Woodturners learn how to cut and combine pieces of wood to produce multicolored geometric designs in turned bowls and vases in this highly illustrated book. Techniques are provided to achieve the accuracy required in segmented work, and professional tips reveal how to create preliminary blueprints. Step-by-step instructions and hundreds of color photographs explain how to accomplish the often-complicated tasks involved with sphere turning, building a porthole-style ring, and inserting diamonds and round designs.

MouldMaking and Casting

Author: Nick Brooks
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977308
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
Mouldmaking and Casting is a technical manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today's more advanced technical methods.

Ductile-iron Pipe and Fittings

Author: American Water Works Association
Publisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1583212183
Category : Cast-iron pipe
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Provides practical information about the design and installation of ductile iron pressure piping systems for water utilities. The 12 chapters outlines the procedure for calculating pipe wall thickness and class, and describes the types of joints, fittings, valves, linings, and corrosion protection a