Books from Taunton

Not So Big Solutions for Your Home
By Sarah Susanka
Offers ideas to increase usable space in a home and add warmth and character, including tips on designing a window seat, planning a recyling area, and using tile to personalize a kitchen or bathroon.
Fine Woodworking on Making and Modifying Machines: 29 Articles
By Fine woodworking
Articles explain how to make table saws, panel saws, band saws, jointers, sanders, planers, knives, lathes, and small tools
Trim Idea Book
By Mary Ellen Polson
Filled with creative ideas for trim and molding, this celebration of one of the most overlooked aspects of interior design features more than 250 photographs of designs from period, craftsman, minimalist, and contemporary homes. Original.
Code Check Electrical: A Field Guide to Wiring a Safe House
By Douglas Hansen, Redwood Kardon, Skip Walker
Whether you are dealing with grounding, bonding, service panels, branch circuits, GFCIs and AFCIs, switches, receptables, photovoltaics, or other systems, the more than 100 tables and figures in this guide guarantee expert, reliable ...
Code Check Building for California
By Douglas Hansen, Redwood Kardon
Using clear language and helpful diagrams, this edition reflects the most up-to-date changes in the International Residential Code. The spiral-bound Code Check series is endorsed by the International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO).
The Gardener's Iris Book
By William Shear
All of the essentials on iris care are carefully and simply explained, along with tips to ensure a stunning display from healthy plants.
The Bandsaw Book
By Lonnie Bird
Organised for ease of access, this colour-illustrated guide to the band saw provides supplementary and essential information on using band saws that often stays buried in OEM manuals or is so vague as to be of no great use.
500 Cottages
By Douglas Keister
Publisher description
Shop Improvements
By Fine woodworking, "Fine Woodworking" Magazine
This book collects the workshop accessory and jigs articles that contain exploded drawings from the last 15 years of "Fine Woodworking.
Modern Furniture Projects
By Dick Burrows
Designed for individuals with advanced woodworking skills, this volume offers plans for modern furniture projects.
Bench Tools
By Fine Woodworking Magazine Editors
In these 34 articles from Fine Woodworking magazine, some of the world's finest woodworkers share their knowledge of common bench tools.
Woodshop Jigs & Fixtures
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy
Including scale patterns for each project and a gallery at the end of each chapter, this book will teach you whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering and architectural carving.
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Period Furniture Details
By Lonnie Bird
Turning and carving, as well as building accurately, are all included in a highly visual format. Anyone who loves period details and longs to create them will want this book.
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making
By Doug Stowe
Filled with both small and large projects for boxes of all shapes, sizes, textures, and finishes, this guide covers all the techniques necessary to create everything from Japanese puzzle boxes to band-sewn boxes. Original.
Turned-bowl Design
By Richard Raffan
Tells how to select wood for turning, describes the qualities of a well-shaped design, and demonstrates special turning techniques
The Complete Guide to Sharpening
By Leonard Lee
Leonard Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment will let you sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter. Rediscover the pleasure of working with sharp tools. The Complete Guide to Sharpening shows you how.
Turning Projects
By Richard Raffan
Provides instructions for twenty-three woodturning items, such as trivets, scoops and ladles, vases, trays, pepper mills, and beads
The Glue Book
By William Tandy Young
A highly practical shop manual, The Glue Book covers a broad range of topics from how to prepare wood to selecting the right adhesive for the job. Woodworkers will find this book a great resource guide.
Quick Fix Meals: 200 Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make Mealtime Easy
By Robin Miller
Presents recipes that are simple to make due to preplanning, turning one recipe into another, or being quick cookers, including linguine carbonara, chicken and mushroom quesadillas, and chicken piccata with olives.
Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship
By Peter Korn
Based on a two-week course in woodworking fundamentals offered at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Camden, Maine, this book takes a traditional approach to teaching, with the idea that learning basic skills is essential to ...