Woodworkers of all skill levels will appreciate this easy-to-digest overview of one of the most versatile tools in the entire woodshop. Quick Tricks for the Router is an essential resource for anyone who loves the problem-solving abilities of the wood router. Within these pages, author Logan Newman will guide you through everything you need to know, from an overview of the router to more than 10 versatile jig projects including the no-hole circle jig. Adding splines to boxes and picture frames? Creating decorative molding? Installing hidden hinges? Adding breadboard end cuts on smaller projects? There are step-by-step, illustrated techniques for all of these and more. And Newman uses his student-friendly approach to steer you through everything, from best practices to wood grain and safety. Youll learn wood troubleshooting philosophy from a master problem-solver, making Quick Tricks for the Router a must-have for any woodworking enthusiast.
This in-depth guide to the art and craft of wood engraving, from a recognised expert in the field, offers a fount of information, advice and top tips into working effectively in this medium. Aimed both at beginners and at those with experience, Anne Desmet RA generously shares her extensive knowledge explaining traditional techniques in clear step-by-step stages. She also introduces new, unexpected, never-before-published ideas, possibilities and directions based on her own creative experiments with wood engraving over four decades.Wood Engraving A Personal Approach invites both beginners and more experienced practitioners to engage with the processes and possibilities orthodox and otherwise of the art and craft of engraving on end-grain woodblocks to produce original, handmade prints of amazing diversity and finesse. Exploring, in particular, the mediums great potential for creating images in light, the reader is supported on their own creative path with plenty of step-by-step guidance, top tips and user-friendly ideas and advice.Enriched with a wealth of inspiring images by the author herself, spanning her 40 years as a wood engraver, alongside excellent examples by other leading practitioners, the book extends well beyond the scope of other engraving manuals. While advocating and imparting traditional processes, the author actively encourages the breaking of the mediums traditional boundaries using modern methods and technical innovations. The book facilitates a lively personal engagement by the reader who will be empowered to take up this historic medium and make it their own.This book explains how to prepare blocks, handle and sharpen tools, scale and prepare imagery for engraving using traditional approaches and the latest digital aids. Shares ideas to combine wood engraving with linocut, stencils and other mixed-media methods, as well as innovative collage-making on unusual surfaces. Features inspiring examples of prints using hand-printing and press-printing, in black and white and in blended colours, and new abstract compositions printed digitally. Offers a new perspective on a medium with extraordinary capacity for expressing light, shade and precision-cut detail
Ready to transform wood into masterpiece sculptures? Then even beginners will enjoy Making Magnificent Wood Art, a unique dive into the art of transforming ordinary wood into extraordinary art and decor. Inside author Meleah Gabharts new book, youll find detailed skill-building projects, outlined step-by-step with thorough instructions so you never feel like youre doing any guesswork. And each project will help you open up your imagination! Learn how to turn wood into a flower mandala, how to craft intricate details like leaves, or even go all out and turn the wood into a sculpted small tree design. Maximize your scroll saw and bandsaw to find out what kind of creative projects theyre capable of. Gabhart has a passion for using wood that was mostly rejected by woodworkers, so youd be surprised at how affordable the hobby can be. Gabharts art reminds people that you dont need beautiful wood to create something beautifulwith some serious wood-sculpting know-how, you can transform an ordinary object into art.