153 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm
Série
The new best of Fine woodworking
Résumé
These articles give advice on everything relating to procuring wood for furniture making.
From personal accounts, the authors cover tips for browsing the lumberyards, milling your own lumber, hiring a sawyer, various drying methods, potential movement concerns, how to transport the lumber, and even how to break down a furniture plan to know what quality of wood to get for the different parts.
There are also articles on selecting and using some tropical woods. Plenty of color photographs.
Notes
CONTENTS -- Buying lumber / Vince Laurence -- Take an inspection kit when buying lumber / Roland Johnson -- Lumberyard sleuth / Cliff Scott -- Finding figured woods : desirable defects and irregularities / Lane Decamp -- When run-of-the-mill won't do / Vincent Laurence -- Lumber from your own backyard / Gus Carlson -- Alternative sources for wood / Mike Dunbar -- The Right wood for the job / Mike Dunbar -- The Right Board in the right place / Louis Irion -- Wood against w eather / Jim Tolpin -- Choosing tropical hardwoods / Jason Grant -- Using unfamiliar tropical woods / Scott Landis -- Seasoned wood : what you need to know / William W. Rice -- A dehumidification kiln / William Bolf -- A solar kiln for drying wood / John Wilson -- Air-drying lumber / Lee Grindinger -- Moisture-meter survey / Lon Schleining -- Working highly figured woods / Peter Tischler -- Wood moves / Mike Dunbar -- A guide to the wayward ways of wood grain / Strother Purdy -- What woodworkers need to know about light / Jeff Jewitt -- When wood fights back / Jon Arno -- Tying down lumber / Gary Williams -- Three ways to rack lumber / Matthew Teague
