Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques

Stowe, Doug

ISBN 10: 1558704434 / ISBN 13: 9781558704435

Published by Popular Woodworking Books, Cincinnati OH, 1997

About this Item

Clean, crisp and pristine. There are no signs of any prior use. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 10.8 X 8.4 X 0.5 inches; 128 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books, Cincinnati OH
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558704434
• ISBN 13: 9781558704435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; Eighth Printing.
• Condition: Fine

About this title

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 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.