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Adirondack outdoor furniture, deck, sheds, rustic log furniture and wood signs books
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Everything in the previous paragraph are pretty easy to make with the proper instruction and plans. The following books will give you all the information you need to keep you out of mischief for a couple of summers and you'll end up with some pretty impressive stuff without too much expense.
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Outdoor and Deck Projects
Outdoor and Deck Projects book from the editors of Weekend Woodcrafts magazine. An adirondack chair a porch swing, a garden bench, a birdhouse to a planter box, projects for your padtio, deck, backyard, veranda, and terrace. Projects includes material and supply lists in an easy-to-follow format.
72 pgs., softcover.
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| Building A Shed
Building A Shed Step-by-step instructions and plans for four shed projects. Saltbox potting shed, garden storage shed, storage barn, and lean-to tool locker. Excellent information about how to design the right structure for your needs. 202 pgs., softcover.
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| Canoe Building Book
Canoe Building Book By David Hazen. This book is unusually crammed with information and inspiration for the first-time boat builder. It comes with six full-size template drawings from which it is possible to make at least nine different wood strip and fiberglass canoes and kayaks. The drawings are basic designs for recreational, cargo, and faster down river canoes, as well as a recreational two-place kayak and a "gran turismo" speed demon kayak that can be made in one or two cockpit versions.
* 95 pg., softcover.
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| Whirligigs
Whirligigs Over 50 color photos, 80 patterns and mechanical drawings, with concise, step-by-step instructions to successfully create twelve original whirligig projects made from wood and/or metal.
Detailed text provides tips for simplifying layout and construction techniques, the proper use of bearings and balance to spin whirligigs in minimal wind, along with practical woodworking, metalworking, and decorating techniques. 96 pgs., softcover.
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Making Wood Signs
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Making Wood Signs Every aspect of sign making in this complete reference. The author explains which materials to choose, what tools you need and how to use them. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate techniques like hand carving, scroll sawing, sandblasting and routing. Novelty items such as home address plaques and commercial signs plus bonus material that includes alphabet, designs and ornament patterns. 240 pgs., softcover.
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| Wood Projects For Outdoor Living
Wood Projects Outdoor Living Create your own outdoor living space with eight easy-to-build custom projects! With step-by-step photos, exploded views, hardware and supply lists, technical and safety tips, and detailed instructions from a master carpenter and cabinetmaker.
Projects include Adirondack-style fanback loveseat, bench seats and table, garden fence with door, potting bench, covered BBQ station, wooden walkway, tool shed, and trellis with paving stones. 128 pages Softcover.
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| Rustic Workshop
Rustic Workshop
Put together great-looking rustic chairs, tables, and more furniture from sticks, twigs, and other found wood in just a weekend! Instructions and easy techniques for cutting, mortise-and-tenon joinery, and wood weaving that even the completely inexperienced can enjoy. A garden arbor to a bentwood armchair, built on basic construction principles. Several creative specialists in rustic woodwork give their personal tips on finishing, the best tools, and safety procedures.112 pages (all in color), 8-1/2'' x 11''.
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| Build Your Own Log Furniture
Build Your Own Log Furniture Ten great projects you can build for fun or profit. A look at log furniture and tools of yesterday and today. Information in this book includes bed frames, bar stools, benches, marketing, logs and material, mortise and tennon, tools, sanding, drilling ten projects and more. "Learn this great "old skill" and move toward greater self sufficiency and a sense of accomplishment. Over 200 pictures and illustrations, cut lists. Softcover 156 pages.
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| Making Rustic Furniture
Making Rustic Furniture With no previous woodworking experience and a few basic hand tools, anyone can make rustic furniture for the cost of a few nails, a walk in the woods, and this book. Hundreds of both color and black-and-white photographs display the rich traditions and the vast stylistic range of past and contemporary rustic furniture. 160 pages (154 in color), 194 b/w illus., 8 1/2 x 10.
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