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Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques
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Manufacturer: Betterway Books
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Featuring step-by-step projects Creating Bea utiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques is the definitive guide t hat makes building elegant boxes easy. '
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.512
EAN: 9781558704435
ISBN: 1558704434
Label: Betterway Books
Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1997-10-15
Publisher: Betterway Books
Studio: Betterway Books
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
WOOD BOXES -
Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques
If you love wood boxes and are a woodworking enthusiastist, this is a definite to add to your woodworking library. Why not 5 stars -- this is not the best book for woodworking beginners because of the "inlay" process (which makes the projects a little harder to do). It is a great book to help teach you how to improve your techniques with inlay.
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A box book first, inlay book second -
Doug Stowe definitely knows his boxes. He's built thousands over the years. Anytime an expert like this decides to share his secrets, one should take the opportunity to acquire the knowledge.
The focus on "inlay" is a fuzzy one at best. Stowe talks in detail about how to make inlay strips or panels and for that information alone, this book is worth its price. A true artist should know how every little bit of his/her works are put together. Since inlay can be a beautiful enhancer to wood projects, designing and assembling your own inlay can only increase your artisanship.
Once the basics of inlay work has been covered, the book goes into some excellent box designs that I look forward to trying. However, and here is where one star goes away, many of these boxes don't require inlay for them to be successful. As a woodworker I both like and dislike this. I like the freedom to use the designs without being bound to the concept of inlay. I dislike that the title of the book specifically ties it to using inlay when many of the projects don't need to utilize it.
Picky? Maybe. Either way this is a good book and many useful designs and techniques can be drawn from it.
Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques -
Good tips and beautiful boxes. The directions are sufficient to be able to make the boxes in the book.
Great learning tool -
The Inlay book is an invaluable resource for beginning woodworkers. Very informative and well written. The author demonstrates methods for using pre-made inlays, as well as providing instructions for making your own inlays. I highly recommend the book. I have all of Doug Stowe's books on box making and enjoy them all.
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The book has some really interesting ideas for boxes. It is definitely worth getting for that reason alone.
This is not a good book for an inexperienced woodworker. Many of the router table techniques shown are incredibly dangerous---I can't believe the author has gotten away with doing things the way he does without losing a few fingers along the way. I shudder to think what might happen to a new woodworker who tries these techniques.
The projects described are somewhat incomplete and quirky. One project, for example, has panel doors---the cutting list contains dimensions for the rails and stiles of the doors, but not the panels. Not a problem for me, since I normally use these things as a source of ideas/inspirations for projects of my own design. But for someone who is looking for a step-by step project guide, this will prove disappointing. As another example, one project mentions using "brainerd hinges"--not a knife hinge, a slot hinge, a quadrant hinge, etc, but a "brainerd hinge". But the author neither shows the hinges in any of the illustrations nor explains them in the text. I was quite puzzled as to just what exactly a "Brainerd Hinge" might be and asked several woodworking buddies. Nobody had any idea. Finally, out of desperation, I "googled" the term "brainerd hinge" and found out that there is a "Brainerd" company that makes hinges. Apparently the author meant a simple butt hinge made by the Brainerd company. The book is full of these quirks and one can either be frustrated at them or view them as part of the book's charm.
One final comment---many of the boxes appealed to my design sense, but some others seemed rather clunky in their proportions. But that's easy enough to change on your own. I say this to stress that the strength of the book is in providing a number of interesting design/construction ideas that can be adapted in many different ways.
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