Essential Joinery
The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know
by Marc Spagnuolo
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With the knowledge of only a handful of essential joints, a woodworker can build anything he can imagine...Whether it's a kitchen cabinet or an 18th century highboy, the foundation for all types of woodworking can be boiled down to a handful of essential joinery skills. Once learned, these joinery methods can be used to create almost anything the w...
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“Good Clean Fun reads like an affectionate tour of a one-man woodshop: project tales, backstage stories, and workshop philosophy delivered in Offerman’s blunt, deadpan voice. Its useful part is the steady celebration of manual craft—concrete descriptions of projects, tool talk, and the dignity of hands-on labor that make you want to visit a shop. Limitation: it’s not an instruction manual or deep cultural critique; punchlines and persona recur, so readers wanting tighter editing or new ideas throughout may find chapters repetitive.”
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