The Art and Craft of Wood
A Practical Guide to Harvesting, Choosing, Reclaiming, Preparing, Crafting, and Building with Raw Wood
by Silas J. Kyler
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The Art and Craft of Wood shows you how to mill, stack, dry, and flatten a log into useable lumber and build a variety of household furnishings. Trees are all around us. They provide shade, beautify our neighborhoods, filter our water, and clean our air, but when they die, we often don't know what to do with them. Now you can learn the skills to re...
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Consider Good Clean Fun by Nick Offerman.
“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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