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The Complete Woodworking Guide

The Complete Woodworking Guide

30 reviews between Oct 20, 2020 and Sep 09, 2023.

This comprehensive woodworking book is a great resource for both beginner and experienced woodworkers. It covers a wide range of topics, from setting up a shop to step-by-step project instructions. The book is well-written and includes detailed illustrations and photographs. It also provides information on various woodworking techniques and tools. Whether you're looking for inspiration, knowledge, or tips and tricks, this book has it all.

Woodworking: The Complete Step-by-Step Manual eBook : DK: Books
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30 reviews between Oct 20, 2020 and Sep 09, 2023.

Oct 20, 2020 - Sep 09, 2023
  • One of those "I should just have used the internet" books

    Minimally informative, features--ad nauseam--projects that are less about using knowledge and craftsmanship than they are about buying lumber and following over-complicated instructions.

    Sentiment
    • Negative
    Content
    • Woodworking Techniques
    Sep 09, 2023
  • Amazing

    Good diagrams and instructions. I love that they have a section dedicated to the appearances of the woods and what they're best used for. I spent an hour just pouring over the information in this section. Sadly, the first book sent to me by Amazon was all beat up, and had to be returned. The second arrived in pristine condition.

    Sentiment
    • Positive
    Content
    • Quality and Design
    Aug 13, 2023
  • Great manual with amazing pictures

    Great overall manual/guide for carpentry, including many types of wood and many examples of techniques. Photography in this is amazing and instructions/content are written clearly but not dumbed down.

    Sentiment
    • Positive
    Content
    • Comprehensive Reference
    Aug 08, 2023
  • Great for someone who wants to learn woodworking

    Great display of necessary tools, wood type, techniques and easily working plans.

    Sentiment
    • Positive
    Content
    • Woodworking Techniques
    Jul 25, 2023
  • The better book for woodworker

    Step by step process are impressive. Tons of pictures showing entire process. The section describing the types of wood is great.

    Sentiment
    • Positive
    Content
    • Woodworking Techniques
    Jun 10, 2023
    • Wonderful!

      Well written, full of pictures, high quality designed. It worths every penny.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Quality and Design
      May 20, 2023
    • Great book

      Provides a lot of knowledge and ideas

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Project Ideas
      May 17, 2023
    • A perfect gift for my son

      My son absolutely loves it and uses it often. It’s very easy to use with great pictures and detailed instructions. It has lots of tips and tricks and ideas of all sorts. It’s exactly what he wanted, needed, and now loves.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Beginner-Friendly Guide
      Mar 20, 2023
    • Decent

      It shows multiple tools that I didn’t even know existed so that’s cool. It also shows multiple different joints you can make which could come in handy but the building options it shows are just so ugly nobody would ever want. Just YouTube some stuff and make something worth $20 at least

      Sentiment
      • None
      Content
      • Project Ideas
      Mar 14, 2023
    • My son loved this

      He loves to woodwork and has been keeping his hands busy. Free time is woodworking. Love that. He also loves to read books. This was very helpful and he had knowledge of woods and said it was the best book

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Comprehensive Reference
      Feb 14, 2023
    • Nice Piece

      Solid book. Received yesterday and paged through it last night. Sturdy binding, good paper stock and print. Detailed descriptions and pictures. Good knowledge base.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Comprehensive Reference
      Feb 03, 2023
    • Very informative

      Lots of info on how to do anything working, a great tool to have!

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Informative and Educational
      Jan 21, 2023
    • Great eeference guide

      A great reference manual for any wood shop. Well illustrated, straight to the point, with good example projects and many tools explained.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Woodworking Techniques
      Sep 17, 2022
    • Asset to our woodworking shop.

      Another good resource for our shop.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Tool Recommendations
      Aug 01, 2022
    • Beginner? Better get a $1000 domino

      Picked up this book see if there are any projects that might be fun to build. While the info on wood and tools is helpful, many of the projects use a Festool Domino (a $1000+ handheld tool ) and/or a dedicated mortising machine,. While I appreciate the info, this is not geared towards beginner woodworkers if you are requiring that level of investment.

      Sentiment
      • None
      Content
      • Project Ideas
      Jul 01, 2022
    • Great resource

      Got this book for a present for my husband who is a woodworker. He is consistently recommending this book to other people who do woodworking. He feels it’s a great resource and also helps to further educate the woodworker

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Quality and Design
      Jun 02, 2022
    • Good Book

      Good Book on Woodworking, very comprehensive in scope. The illustration pictures and diagrams in this book; help to bring in the concepts covered to the uninitiated. Wonderful reference book to the accomplished woodworker as well.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Comprehensive Reference
      May 07, 2022
    • disappointed

      covers nothing modern. mostly hand tools , not modern or electric or battery tools. obsesses with mortice and tenon for all the projects.great book about the past.

      Sentiment
      • None
      Content
      • Traditional Woodworking
      Apr 22, 2022
    • Best woodworking book I have found

      As a beginning woodworker, I bought several books. This one has become my “go to”. From setting up your shop to what tools you need to step by step project instructions. The text is clear and the pictures are excellent.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Beginner-Friendly Guide
      Apr 10, 2022
    • Excellent quality of a book

      Lots of pictures and very good, basic description. Just what I was looking for.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Informative and Educational
      Apr 08, 2022
    • If you’re starting from zero, this is the book to get you there

      Much more thorough than the handful of books I previously waded through. Got well reviewed books but all of them lacked a true focus towards the learn-as-I-go woodworker, throwing around terminology that was never well explained (if explained at all), and using it for the basis of divulging new info without ever giving you the building blocks so to speak. Great explanations and plans

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Comprehensive Reference
      Feb 04, 2022
    • Great book with easy step by step guides for basic techniques

      I just loved the easy, step by step guide for joinery and basic techniques.

      Nice to read because of all the pictures and illustrations.

      Projects could be better but a great addition to my woodworking books.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Woodworking Techniques
      Jan 25, 2022
    • Perfect for Novice Refinisher

      I haven't finished reading the book yet, but what I've read so far is exactly what I've been looking for. Been getting the bug to do some wood furniture repair and this book will help tremendously.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Informative and Educational
      Jan 10, 2022
    • Bad formatting ruins reading experience

      They chose a fairly small font and printed it in less than full black, so it’s a little faint even directly under a bright reading lamp. Makes it annoying to read. The information is dated and examples are geared towards non-power tool user.

      Sentiment
      • None
      Content
      • Traditional Woodworking
      Jan 06, 2022
    • It’s not the Book, it’s Amazon

      The Pacific Northwest is a notoriously “wet” region. Amazon could do their clients a service by packaging items so that they arent damaged by the persistently inclement weather. You’d think a hard-bound book would warrant such care

      Sentiment
      • None
      Content
      • Quality and Design
      Dec 03, 2021
    • Good gift idea for woodworking beginner

      Great book to get some ideas. Used is as a gift and it was very well received. Would recommend this for a beginner.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Project Ideas
      Feb 10, 2021
    • Great book to have

      Any questions you come across, the general answers are in this book. Another great book to have in you woodworking library.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Comprehensive Reference
      Feb 07, 2021
    • Pretty good attempt at a woodworking book in the internet age

      I can’t imagine the challenge of producing a big “overview of woodworking” tome in the year 2020. It’s almost as crazy as spending hours of your time and tons of money to make your own furniture when you can buy mass manufactured furniture at big box stores for less. Who would buy such an old fashioned book when you can find anything you want on the internet? With videos?

      I wondered that as I flipped through this book that my well-meaning family gave me, an avid beginner hobbyist, as a gift. While I wouldn’t have bought this on my own, I am nevertheless enjoying it enough to write this review. And I will say this type of book does deserve its place alongside the endless information and content steam of the internet.

      As a beginner hobbyist woodworker, YouTube is my primary instructor but this book is useful for just flipping through the pages and reading about tools and joints in a relaxed way, with plenty of high quality photos, when I don’t want to look at an electronic device. Therefore this book is an excellent complement to online videos. It’s a good introduction to the basics. If and when I want to lean more, then of course I’ll do that on the internet. But this book serves as a good starting point and as a resource to return to for basic fundamental.

      If you paid full retail price then this is a bit expensive and you can probably find equally educational books at a used bookstore for a fraction of the price. But many of the used books from years past are older with fewer and poor quality photos, or longer narrative whereas readers of today (including this reader) demand clear photos with explanation. I really do want to give credit to the excellent and thorough photo quality of this book. It’s evident that the internet and its abundance of easy pics and videos has required book makers to work harder to stay relevant and this book does it well.

      Half of the book is devoted to 28 typical projects, from cutting boards to more complex pieces like dressers and beds. While I might not build any of these, and instead find exactly the plans I want on the internet, nevertheless the plans are very detailed with excellent photos that you rarely see in any plans. As such, I often read through these plans just for the techniques.

      There is a preference for hand tools but they do cover lower tools and machines a bit as well.

      As an American (US) reader, be aware that this is a UK book with British authors so there is a fair amount of terminology differences that can be confusing, although not indecipherable, if you are an American. Brits and Americans do work with mostly the same tools and techniques but sometimes use different words. Fortunately the book uses both inches and metric so everyone will be happy. And the section on wood species contains woods from all over the world including North America.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Beginner-Friendly Guide
      Dec 27, 2020
    • Top Quality

      This book will make a great gift for the woodworker in your family or among your friends. It is substantial and quite beautifully done.

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Gift
      Oct 20, 2020
    • Super

      What a great book and when you combine with the other books I got "the sky is the limits" freakin' great. I will be ordering their tool book too!!😜

      Sentiment
      • Positive
      Content
      • Project Ideas
      Oct 20, 2020

Sentiment Analysis

  • Positive(24)
    80%
  • Negative(1)
    3%
  • None(5)
    17%
77 Net Promoter
Score

Popular Topics

  • Comprehensive Reference(6)
    20%
  • Project Ideas(5)
    17%
  • Woodworking Techniques(5)
    17%
  • Quality and Design(4)
    13%
  • Beginner-Friendly Guide(3)
    10%
  • Informative and Educational(3)
    10%
  • Traditional Woodworking(2)
    7%
  • Gift(1)
    3%
  • Tool Recommendations(1)
    3%

Languages

  • English(30)
    100%

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