Woodworking in Action Volume #12

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine Brand: Popular Woodworking

Refine Your Skills WhileMaking This Beautiful DeskInspired by the clean lines of Biedermeierfurniture from early 1800s, this handsomepiece features delicately curved legs andsubtle banding that makes it a perfect additionto any home. Watch as well-known author andteacher Mario Rodriguez explains every step in building it,including several techniques guaranteed to expand yourskills. Youll learn how to: Create shaped legs using templates for perfect resultsevery time. Make precision case joinery including mortise-andtenonand dovetail joints Craft perfect leg cuffs and banding Produce piston-fit drawers And more!

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine

Join Chuck Bender in this woodworking video to master carving and inlay while you create a handsome project. Utilize a mix of hand and power tools to make this hand-cut dovetail box.

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Books

Traditional hand plane making...made simpler in this step-by-step tutorial. Bill Anderson offers a visually stunning and very detailed video about traditional plane making that is comprehensive enough for even beginners to successfully follow along and build a jointer plane of their own. Filmed on location in Roy Underhill's Woodwright's School in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Bill shows how to make and 18th Century jointer plane with only traditional woodworking hand tools. Bill simplifies the complicated hand plane building process, including wood selection, layout, mortising, using floats, building handles, chamfering the edges, truing the bottom, and finishing the plane.

Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing

Woodworkers looking to increase their building productivity will be guided through the use, techniques, and construction of bench planes in this valuable hour-long DVD. Master craftsman Jim Kingshott shows you everything you need to know about setting-up, tuning, maintaining, and using bench planes - from jack planes and smooth planes to the finest Norris-style and popular Stanley-Bailey pattern planes.

Manufacturer: Tmw Media Group

Discover the kinds of plays performed at Stratford in Shakespeare's youth along with an introduction to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Shakespeare's London Years 1591-1613: Our British presenter, Rebecca Flynn, offers us a horseback journey into London and a walking tour over a dozen London sites that conjure up the presence of William Shakespeare during his London years. This program follows the trail and visits eighteen major sites associated with Shakespeare and his plays which include - the Tower of London; St. Paul's Cathedral; the Middle Temple for law students; George Tavern, a venue for outdoor plays; Southwark Cathedral, where his brother Edmund Shakespeare is buried; and the London Globe Theatre site. Shakespeare's Stratford Years 1564-1590: This Program conjures up the presence of William Shakespeare during his Stratford years by taking you on a walking, biking, and rowing journey around Warwickshire. It features the baptismal font and tomb at Trinity church, Shakespeare's Birthplace, the King Edward VI Grammar School he attended, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, Wilmcote, Kenilworth Castle, the Mary Arden Farm, and many other important locations.

Manufacturer: unknown

Unique design and colorful interiors abound in a tour of the best of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Visit art director Barbara Drake's Mediterranean-inspired sanctuary, the amazing home of glass artist Dale Chihuly, the New York apartment of art-furniture collector John Januk, and architect Charles Bernstein's modernist home.