Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques - Softcover

Stowe, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558704434 ISBN 13: 9781558704435

Publisher: Betterway Books, 1997

Synopsis

Everybody loves boxes - especially woodworkers. After all, they're easy to make, great for gifts, and are perfect for honing your skills.

Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques is a practical, easy-to-understand working manual to building elegant boxes in an array of shapes, colors and sizes. Rich in information, Doug Stowe's book details everything you need to know - from tips on tools to specific wood recommendations to sources of hard-to-find materials.

Nothing has been left out or left to chance.

Each project - the sculpted pecan box, the routed box with sliding top, the bandsaw box, and more - is lavishly illustrated with color photographs of the finishes project, detailed drawings and cutting lists, and step-by-step photos so precise and vivid that you could probably build the projects without reading a word (there are more than two dozen of these illustrating the first simple project alone)!

Projects include:

• Pen box
• Stamp box
• Triangle box
• Walnut box with spalted maple inlay
• Checkerboard inlay box
• Sculpted pecan box
• CD cabinet
• Tea chest
• Cherry dovetailed jewelry box
• Jewelry cabinet
• Earring chest
• Fiddleback maple jewelry chest

What's more, Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques gives you the know-how to design your own adaptations of these and other projects.

So no matter your experience or shop size, you'll be inlaying your own boxes with confidence and flawless fits, time after time, in no time at all.

About this title

About the Author

Doug Stowe is a professional furniture designer and box maker. He is the author of 13 books and also writes for Fine Woodworking and other woodworking magazines. In 2001 he started a pre-K through 12th grade woodworking program called "Wisdom of the Hands," recognizing the importance of hands-on learning for all children.

Two of Stowe's books have been translated into German. Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making is available in German as Kästen Schachteln: perfect knostruieren und bauen. Building Small Cabinets has been translated and published as Kleine Schränke: 8 faszinierende Modelle.

Stowe teaches adults at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, at theMarc Adams School of Woodworking, and for various wood working clubsthroughout the US.

Reviews

Stowe is a woodworker with 20 years' experience and an eye for boxes and box-making. In a well-presented, concise format, he outlines 15 projects, illustrated in full color. The designs are open-ended, allowing the available wood to dictate a given project. Materials and tools lists are included, and line drawings highlight what details the photographs cannot. Most of these projects are geared toward the experienced woodworker, but less-skilled hobbyists and other general "enjoyers of wood" will also find pleasure in these pages. Gentle in tone but strong in presentation, this book is solidly grounded in practice. In the end, the author offers solid advice on woodworking and, by extension, life. Recommended for large crafts and woodworking collections.?Alexander Hartmann, INFOPHILE, Williamsport, Pa.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Betterway Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558704434
• ISBN 13: 9781558704435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128