Cabinetmaking

"The Art of Woodworking: Cabinetmaking" is a good guide and reference. Its chapters include cabinetmaking techniques, carcase construction, frame-and-panel construction, drawers, doors, and legs. Throughout there are instructions on how to do various major parts of cabinetmaking. Additionally, there are tips, directions for jigs to aid in cabinetmaking, and the ever-important safety reminders. This would be especially helpful for those who do not consider themselves really advanced cabinetmakers.

This is a partworks, of sorts. What I like about the construction of the book itself is that the pages are ring bound internally, allowing whatever page you may be referencing to lay open, flat on your work bench.

Cabinetmaking techniques are split into five main chapters: carcase construction, Frame-and-panel construction, Drawers, Doors, and finally Legs.

With consultants such as: Mark Dugindki - Author and editor of Fine Woodworking Magazine, Leonard Lee - Editor of Woodcuts Magazine and president of several tool manufacturing companies, Joseph Truini - Editor of Home Mechanix magazine and Popular Mechanics, and Giles Miller-Mead - Advanced Cabinetmaking tutor at Montreal Technical Schools; the contents should be trustworthy. It show more certainly looks understandable flicking through the pages, but I have not yet taken on the challenge myself.

Although the illustrations look very clear and are many, they are of the CAD type and not that inspiring although there are a spattering of real colour photos also. show less