Author: Ken Horner Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 9781892836212 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 343
Book Description
Enjoy workshop success without being troubled by difficult mathematical setbacks. Get the answers to all of your perplexing woodworking questions in this handy workshop reference tool.
Author: Ken Horner Publisher: Cambium ISBN: 9781892836151 Category : Woodwork Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides more jargon-free answers to the most baffling woodworking equations and questions. Enjoy woodworking without the head-scratching questions and mathematical setbacks.! This best-seller provides practical solutions to countless workshop issues. With a straight-forward approach and hundreds of clear illustrations, useful tables, and a myriad of facts, formulas and shortcuts, this handy reference is a must-have for any woodworker. How high is a dining table or a coffee table? How do you draw the ellipse for a butler's tray? What is the Golden Mean and how can a woodworker use it? How to evenly space the balusters in a railing? How do you saw perfect miter and bevel angles? How much load can a shelf carry before it sags or breaks? Every day, every woodworker has to scratch his head over questions like these. Every workshop operation requires knowing some kind of measurement, formula, fact, or calculation. Workshop problems usually can be solved with mathematics, but as this interesting book shows, there's often a no-math solution too. In most situations, the savvy craftsman can get the answers either with math or by applying common-sense rules of thumb. This handbook presents both approaches so readers can choose what works best in their particular situation. With this handbook on the bench, readers will enjoy success in the workshop whether or not they are comfortable with mathematics. Hundreds of illustrations guide readers through the solutions to everyday workshop problems. Straightforward writing and a simplified approach to calculations lead readers step-by-step to the answers they need. Dozens of useful tables put essential reference information into this single, easy-to-follow resource. This practical handbook, packed full of facts, formulas and shortcuts, is essential for woodworkers of all skill levels.
Author: Tom Begnal Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440354847 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
Find fast answers to woodworking questions! From fasteners to finishing, angles to adhesives, this portable guide is packed with helpful charts, lists and illustrations to move your woodworking projects along. Need to compute an odd joint angle, select appropriate hardware, or pick the right finish for a project? You can consult this book for solutions to those dilemmas and many more. It's the ideal size to stash in a toolbox or bench top, where you will refer to it again and again. FEATURES • Dozens of charts and lists providing key woodworking facts, figures and formulas at a glance • Clear, quick-reference illustrations of angles, joints, mouldings, fasteners and more • Demystifies woodworking math, including conversions and geometry • Portable, durable format perfect for hands-on use in the shop
Author: Tom Begnal Publisher: North Light Books ISBN: 9781558704855 Category : Shop mathematics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide that provides easy-to-follow instructions for calculating angles, determining proportions and ratios, measure and cut accurately, and more.
Author: Ken Horner Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 160765024X Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
Woodworkers and carpenters will learn to solve virtually every geometry and layout problem with this handy guide to the steel square. Loaded with diagrams, practical advice and exercises. Learn how valuable the steel square can be. Loaded with diagrams, practical advice, and skill-building exercises.
Author: Charles Mak Publisher: ISBN: 9781897030783 Category : Woodwork Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Woodworking Tips and Tricks offers authentic and refreshing one-of-a-kind shop wisdom from a hobby woodworker who builds, writes, teaches, and is always willing to experiment and share. Whenever he hits a hurdle or sees an opportunity to do something in a simpler or more accurate manner in his shop, Charles Mak always pauses and asks himself how he can best deal with the challenge at hand. As a prolific woodworker and a passionate teacher, he has been presented with many opportunities to tackle problems – sometimes in an unorthodox fashion. This book is the result of his habit of ceaselessly trying to do things in a better way."--
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