The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood by Lonnie Bird

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood by Lonnie Bird

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Shape is critical to the ultimate success of failure of a piece of furniture. In this work, Lonnie Bird guides the reader towards visualizing, then drawing a shape, and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it, from simple shaping techniques to complex bending and carving.

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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood by Lonnie Bird

Shape is critical to the ultimate success or failure of piece of furniture. Knowing this, custom-furniture maker Lonnie Bird has taken the complex subject of shaping and in this book made it accessible to every woodworker. He guides the reader toward towards visualising, then drawing a shape, and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it. Shaping techniques of all kinds are covered here - from the simplest, to complex bending and carving.
Bird, Lonnie: - Lonnie Bird, a professional woodworker specializing in period furniture, runs a woodworking school in Dandridge, Tennessee.
Jeff Jewitt is a professional finisher and refinisher in Cleveland, Ohio and a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking,
Thomas Lie-Nielsen is the founder and owner of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks which manufactures high quality handtools. He lives in Warren, Maine.
Andy Rae, from Asheville, North Carolina, is a professional woodworker who writes frequently for woodworking magazines and teaches woodworking.
Gary Rogowski, a contributing to Fine Woodworking, operates his own school, the Northwest Furniture Studio, in Portland Oregon.
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ISBN 13 9781561584000
ISBN 10 1561584002
Title The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
Author Lonnie Bird
Series Complete Illustrated Guides Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Taunton Press Inc
Year published 2001-10-15
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.