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Loading... Wood Joinery for Beginners Handbook: The Essential Joinery Guide with Tools, Techniques, Tips and Starter Techniquesby Stephen Fleming
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"There would be no trees without branches, and there would be no furniture without joints." The one which binds together has always been special across cultures. Wood joinery has also evolved across various schools of woodworking in their unique ways. For example, in Japanese joinery, the whole wooden house was built on the strength of joinery. Joinery is used for both connecting the wood and also enhancing the aesthetics of the final product. My Journey: Back in the days when I was starting with Wood Craft, I was desperately looking for the go-to guide about the processes and the tools involved. Woodworking is a vast subject with many branches or verticals of this craft like Cabinet Making, Wood Carving, Joinery, Carpentry, and Woodturning. The online content was information overload and not presented in a sequential manner. The books I referred were either focused on a few processes or assumed that I had the necessary information. Also, I found that most of the books were a little aged. There are two ways of learning; one is learning from subject matter experts who have years of experience, and then there are people who are just a few steps ahead of you in their journey. I am the second one, five years into this hobby, and still learning from the experts. I still remember the initial doubts I had and the tips which helped me. This book comes after Woodworking for Beginners Handbook, and it focuses entirely on the joinery process. This book is for people who are in their first lap (0-3 years) of the wood-crafting journey and want to have a holistic idea of methods, tools and need help in their initial projects. I have included ample photographs of realistic projects of beginners explaining the process and standard operating procedure while starting. In the last chapter, I have provided a glossary of joinery terms and tips for beginners. Below is the flow of the information provided in the book: Introduction to Joinery Joinery tools: Type of tools and how to use them Detailed discussion on 15 types of joinery: advantage, disadvantage, strength, usage etc. Japanese Joinery Introduction, types, pros, cons, and application CNC wood joinery: Introduction, various kinds of CNC joinery, Five starter joinery projects with step by step instructions Glossary of joinery terms Tips for beginners So, what are you waiting for? As said in the woodworking community: Measure Twice and Cut Once and let's start the journey. No library descriptions found. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumStephen Fleming's book Manual de ensamblajeen madera para principiantes: La guía esencial de ensamblaje con herramientas, técnicas, consejos y proyectos iniciales was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  
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I've been wanting to get into woodworking and the like for awhile now, but wasn't really sure where to start. The things I had questions about always kept me from getting started; there is so much about woodworking that I don't know or understand just yet. The topic itself for me can be intimidating because it is very detailed and precise, and I don't understand so much of it. That brings me to this book. One of the largest things I didn't understand was the actual joining of the wood and how to do that securely. The book went into very thorough detail, some of which had pictures or illustrations, about different joining methods and the tools required for each type. For someone under the beginner level like myself, this was probably the best-case scenario as I wouldn't have understood any of it without the visual material to accompany it. I liked that the steps, as long as you have the tools, were easy to follow along with and a photo of the anticipated end result was included. In explaining the different kinds of joining methods, the book also went into detail about the different types of wood used for these methods, which was very useful for someone like me who wouldn't know certain differences between various types of wood. Those differences heavily impact the end result of the project, and I like that the book made sure to highlight that alongside showing the techniques. There is a lot of variety in the types of joinery included, so I think the book can appeal to those experienced with woodworking but not a lot of experience with different kinds of wood joinery.
I don't have many suggestions for improvement, but quite a few of the pictures throughout seemed to have lesser quality than some of the other photos, like most of the instructional photos in the Beginner Projects section of the book. I would have also liked if there were photos of the various types of clamps. The other tools and types of wood had a photo to accompany them so the reader could differentiate, but other than the photo with the pile of clamps, there wasn't much about them beyond a brief explanation. A quick Google search would answer all of those things quickly so it doesn't take anything away from the book, but I wish they'd been included as with the other tools and methods discussed.
I found this book very informative, and a huge source of help for me with trying to dip my toes into woodworking. I found it educational, easy to follow, and will be making it a reference book for the future once I get started. Thank you to the author for allowing me to review a copy!