Woods Of The World CD ROM

Chair Caning Video

Find out how to weave conventional pattern cane by hand with a simple color coded seven step process. Also covers: tools, determining size of cane, removing old cane, and preparing new cane for weaving.

Bowl Turning Video

with Del Stubbs

You can start with dry lumber or with green wood you cut yourself. The camera zooms in close to see the careful contact of edge on wood and then moves back so you can study various tool positions, grips and stances.

You will learn about:

• Cutting tool types and modification of standard tools
• Grinding and honing chisels
• Gripping various turning tools
• Mounting bowl blanks and roughing out the shape
• Modifying a standard lathe
• Controlling warp in the thin wall of a bowl
• Cutting into end grain
• Designing bowl forms

Mastering Woodworking Machines

with Mark Duginske

Mark Duginske offers a master's insights into machine woodworking, and some honest shortcuts that will help you in your own journey toward woodworking precision. You'll see how to do fast, elegant joinery with basic power tools (with no need for expensive gadgets) and how to achieve zero-frustration, complete-control woodworking with machines.

You will learn about:

• '' Reading'' lumber to avoid stock-preparation problems
• Fine-tuning the table saw, band saw, drill press and radial-arm saw
• Sawing beautifully fitting dovetails on the table saw
• Making mortise-and-tenon joints on the drill press
• Band sawing book matched panels
• Making an ingenious 50-cent device that ensures accuracy to within 0.002 in.

Router Joinery

with Gary Rogowski

In this video, professional woodworker Gary Rogowski demonstrates router joinery techniques that can be mastered by any woodworker. You'll learn why correct setup and good stock preparation are essential to accurate work, and you'll see how to cut common frame and carcass joints using a hand-held or table-mounted router.

You'll see how to rout:

• Rabbets, dadoes and grooves
• Half-laps
• Mortise-and-tenon joints
• Loose-tenon joints
• Half-blind and through dovetails
• Sliding dovetails

Turning Wood

with Richard Raffan

Richard Raffan demonstrates the moves that are so important to skillful woodturning. Then he leads you through six useful projects from his companion book, Turning Wood.

You will learn about:

• Techniques
• Sharpening
• Stance and movement
• Gouge exercises
• Skew exercises
• Centerwork techniques
• Facework techniques and Projects
• Tool handle
• Light-pull knob
• Scoop
• Box
• Breadboard
• Bowl

Router Jigs and Techniques

with Bernie Maas and Michael Fortune

Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity--and creativity--in the shop. In this tape, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout the subtle shapes necessary to create a handsome hand mirror (plans for the hand mirror are in the accompanying booklet).

You will learn about:

• Making spline edge joints in boards with the router
• Routing mortises and tenons that fit
• Routing sliding dovetail mortises and tenons
• A variety of jigs for the router
• Cutting to a pattern, tapers, round-over, under-cuts, decorative covers and routed cavities

Mastering Your Table Saw

with Kelly Mehler

Kelly Mehler, who makes some of the most beautiful furniture in America, shows you how to get the best out of this essential tool in this video, you'll learn the differences between table saws. You'll discover how to choose the right one for your working style, set it up right the first time and adjust it so that it runs safely and efficiently

Mehler demonstrates basic table-saw techniques, including crosscutting and ripping, and how to handle special situations such as oversized and undersized stock. He also shows you how to make woodworking joints with the table saw and how to build jigs and fixtures that will make your work on the table saw easier and more accurate.

Kelly Mehler works wood in Berea, Kentucky. He's a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking magazine. Check out the companion book, and see his video, Build A Shaker Table.

Mastering Your Bandsaw

with Mark Duginske

Through his books and magazine articles and in seminars across the country, Mark Duginske has helped thousands of handsaw owners tweak their wayward machines into precision tune. Now, on video, Duginske shows you how to get optimum performance from your band saw, as well as some really extraordinary handsaw tricks and techniques.

Among these are:

• Cutting cones
• Making band sawn boxes out of 2-in. thick stock
• Re-sawing veneer 1/32 in. thick
• Making perfect dovetails
• Cutting tenons
• Re-sawing boards from firewood

Steam Bending

Your woodworking will take on a new dimension once you can master curved shapes. But, when you want to curve a piece of wood, do you saw it, laminate it or steam-bend? Steam bending is the way to go when you need to preserve the wood's full strength and its natural appearance (sawing curves weakens wood by shortening the grain, and lamination produces visible glue lines).

In this video Lon Schleining, using household appliances and common woodshop tools, takes you through each step in the process of steam-bending brackets and crest rails for chairs.

Versatile Router I

Using the Collar Guide, Making Circles and Holes, Lapped Joints