Woodworking
Start your next Woodworking project with these librarian selected resources. Discover furniture making, wood carving, tool maintenance, workshop construction and easy to follow tutorials.
About Woodworking
Whether you're new to woodworking or a more advanced crafts-person, the library's collection offers a wide range of resources for all skill levels. From hand carving to wood turning, the books and links here will help you to expand your creativity or learn something new. Find project ideas for inside and outside your home, learn about proper shop and tool maintenance or explore classic techniques. Discover the artistry of woodworking in the video links and get inspired.
eBooks & eMagazines on Woodworking
- Building Cabinets, Bookcases & Shelves by Popular Woodworking
Whether you need storage for books, DVDs, games or clothes, you'll find attractive, custom options in this book. Building Bookcases, Cabinets and Shelves offers 29 storage solutions in a variety of styles and sizes with both open and enclosed storage. Each project includes cutting lists, step-by-step instructions and tips and advice from professional woodworkers who have made each piece. - Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood, time in Hollywood and as a craftsman. - Overdrive - Wood Craft eMagazine
Woodcraft Magazine is written by woodworkers for woodworking enthusiasts of all skill levels. Every issue includes detailed, step-by-step project plans, workshop tips and techniques, tool reviews and much more - Overdrive - Popular Woodworking eMagazine
Whether it's a solo or group project, a home-improvement undertaking or a simple piece of art, Popular Woodworking lets you into the world of woodworking crafts. Each issue of Popular Woodworking features numerous projects for the expert craftsperson and the interested beginner. - Overdrive - Woodworker's Journal eMagazine
Woodworker’s Journal is the magazine for people who love to work with wood. Woodworkers of any skill level will find top-tier plans to build great projects, expert reviews of woodworking tools, and a ton of woodworking tips and techniques. Woodworker’s Journal will keep you inspired and motivated.
Woodworking In our collections
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Video Resouces for Woodworking
- Fine Woodworking YouTube Channel
The YouTube site for Fine Woodworking Magazine features video tutorials for all skill levels. - Fine Woodworking - Bench Chisel Basics
Learn how to master chiseling technique with these lessons on paring, chopping, and more. - Woodworking Tools YouTube Channel
Features videos on Woodworking Technology, Woodworking Tools and Machines, Woodturning - Furniture And Home Décor. - Family Handyman YouTube Channel
Family Handyman is the #1 brand for DIY homeowners, offering expert step-by-step projects, useful buying advice, and clever project ideas. - Family Handyman - Easy Woodworking projects you can DIY
Check out these attractive, useful projects you can build! The best part is that they don’t require a complete workshop and years of woodworking experience, just a few common tools and some old-fashioned elbow grease. Get more info at: - Positive Home Solutions - Woodworking 1 - hoopla digital
Woodworking I shows you in detail how to build furniture that will certainly enhance the appearance of your home. Besides the item presented, this video will give you the basics that can be applied to other items you may wish to build. This program shows you the correct way to build beautiful wood furniture in your own workshop. - Materia Wood - Kanopy
In Italy there's a strong tradition of working with wood. In this documentary we start in the Forest of Violins in Paneveggio. Each tree is specially selected and felled for its quality grain. The forest is never over-harvested, with a mindfulness of preserving the forest and the traditional trees that are used to make the world's finest violins and other objects of art.
Online Resouces
- BorkWood BlogBlog dedicated to woodworking for a variety of skills levels. Features project ideas and advice.
- Canadian Woodworking & Home ImproovementWebsite features videos and tutorials as well as more information about Canadian suppliers for Woodworking tools and equipment.
- Paul Sellers LifeStyle WoodworkerFeatures an extensive blog along with video tutorials for a wide range of woodworking projects.
- Way of WoodFeatures a blog, project ideas and tutorials. Includes information about 3D software for woodworking design.
Reccomended books on Woodworking
Contemporary Furniture - 17 Projects You Can Build by Publication Date: 2016Simply elegant furniture for any home! Matching furniture to your home decor can be a tall order. Classic furniture styles with intricate details can overpower a room or clash with other styles in the typical home. That's one of the reasons why contemporary furniture is so popular--and why woodworkers love to build it.
Essential Joinery by Publication Date: 2019With the knowledge of only a handful of essential joints, a woodworker can build anything they 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.
Good Clean Fun by Publication Date: 2016Nestled among the glitz and glitter of Tinseltown is a testament to American elbow grease and an honest-to-god hard day's work- Offerman Woodshop. Captained by hirsute woodworker, actor, comedian, and writer Nick Offerman, the shop produces not only fine handcrafted furniture, but also fun stuff-kazoos, baseball bats, ukuleles, even mustache combs.
Woodworking by Publication Date: 2018Rustic Italian style meets Scandinavian design in this stunning collection of simple woodworking projects. Woodworking husband-and-wife duo Andrea Brugi and Samina Langholz invite you into their magical world, where their Scandinavian sensibility for clean design is balanced with organic and aged imperfection inspired by their Tuscan home.
Woodworking Basics by Publication Date: 2018Woodworking Basics is the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of working with wood for those with little or no experience. The book covers all of the basic hand tools that a beginner will need and describes how to use each one, giving useful tips and expert advice along the way.
