Jun 292013
Woodworking For Dummies
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You’ve seen a few shows on TV, and working with wood looks like it could be quite entertaining and rewarding. After all, you get to create something that you can proudly display to your friends and family. But where and how do you begin to move from expressed interest to hands-on experience?Woodworking For Dummies shows you how your raw building materials stack up, with everything you wood need to know about hardwood, softwood, plywood, veneer wood, plain-sawn wood, rift-cut wood, quarter-sawn w
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Only for the Dummy that already has $10K worth of power tools.,
I think the Dummies series really dropped the ball on this one. Woodworking for Dummies is written by a guy that tells you that he wants to start from scratch; later in the introduction he refers to himself as a tool collector and a gear junkie. That might be ok, I thought; surely he’ll start from the bottom and explain the basic techniques before he gets into using the specialized equipment – the Dummies books are good at that sort of thing. Right?
Wrong. Although there’s a whole mini-chapter listing his assumptions – among which he tells you that he assumes that you want to learn woodworking from scratch – he never tells you that the entire book depends entirely on your already having a basement or garage workshop full of power tools. He assumes at every step that you have a table saw, a router, a router table, a compound miter saw, a drill press, a jointer, and a 12′ planer.
Not once does he mention the simple, traditional way of doing things with handheld tools, except to snidely deride it and say he does it “the faster, easier way.” Everything in this book is written for an audience that has already accreted ten thousand dollars worth of power machinery. But here’s the catch: how many people do you know that buy that many specialized power tools before knowing how to cut a straight line on a table saw? As far as I’m concerned this book is fairly worthless. Dummies, my faith in you is shaken – I’m returning this book.
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|And all 10 fingers intact,
Great for the starter or occasional woodworker and a resource for the rest of us. As with all “Dummies” books, it is clearly written and gets right to the point of using tools, design, and choosing what wood and joints to use.
This is a good book to get into the hobby, but then join a woodworking group in your area to really learn. Worth the money in my opinion.
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|A good addition to my Dummies library,
Being a late in life beginning woodworker, I needed something that didn’t assume I knew all there was to know about the tools I had and how to bend the wood to my will in order to end up with items I could be proud of. This book helped a lot in that regard. While I won’t always use some of the shortcuts and techniques the author recommends, knowing that you can get from point A to point B professionally was a big help. This is a valuable addition to my woodworking reference library and I will refer to it often.
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