I Can Do That PDF
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I CAN DO THAT! WOODWORKING PROJECTS UPDATED & EXPANDED EDITED BY DAVID THIEL Table of Contents Yes You Can Do It! Rules for Using the Tools Techniques Materials & Hardware SEATING 1 Skansen Bench 2 Hall Bench 3 Simple Side Chair 4 Patio Chair 5 Mud Room Bench TABLES 6 Round Taboret 7 Victorian Side Table 8 Coffee Table 9 Factory Cart Coffee Table 10 Tapered-leg Table 11 Game Table 12 Tiered End Table STORAGE 13 Pirate Chest 14 Storage Bench 15 Pegged Shoe Rack 16 Mitered CD/DVD Rack 17 Canted Wall Box 18 Pleasant Hill Firewood Box 19 Painted Cupboard SHELVING 20 Egg Crate Shelves 21 Whale Tail Shelves 22 Stacking Bookcases 23 Contemporary Shelves 24 Simplified Stickley Bookcase 25 Shaker Shelves 26 Library Magazine Rack 27 Corner Shelf 28 Open Bookcase 29 Contemporary Bookshelves 30 Shaker Shelf MISCELANEOUS 31 Tool Rack 32 Step Stool 33 Fish Sticks Trivet 34 Knife Block 35 Shaker-inspired Step Stool 36 Low-profile Serving Tray 37 Recycling Station 38 Bi-fold Shutters Suppliers Index Yes You Can Do It! When you get started in woodworking there are many paths to follow, forks in the road, dead-ends and shortcuts. It’s a journey that our forebears would make with the help of a living, breathing guide: a master, a grandfather, a shop teacher. Sadly, the guides are fewer in number today. And so you are left with people like me to help. Like the making of meat by-products, it’s not a pretty sight. Getting your woodworking instruction from books, magazines, television and the occasional class is a slow way to learn a complex task. In fact, many woodworkers spend a long time (years!) simply accumulating machines and tools before they ever build a single piece of furniture. And when they do begin to build, they inevitably discover that they actually need different machines and tools to make what they really want to make. So they buy more tools and machines. I want you to know something important that doesn’t get said much: There is another way to begin building furniture. You don’t need a table saw, a workbench or even a shop. You don’t need to spend $1,000 to build your first birdhouse. You can go to the home center in the morning and start building something the same day. I’m not talking about building junk, either. The difference between a nice-looking set of bookshelves and a rude assemblage of 2×4s isn’t a table saw. The difference is cleverness, sound design and just a wee bit of patience. To build nice furniture you need a handful of decent tools that you won’t outgrow. This
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