Complete Guide to Wood Joinery: Essential Tips and Techniques for Woodworkers

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Creating an essential reference for modern woodworkers and furniture builders, Wynn shows how to create almost any traditional furniture joint quickly and accurately using hand planes. In this comprehensive manual on hand-cut joinery author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn guides and instructs the reader on how to choose, set up, maintain, and master the most popular joinery planes, including plough planes, rabbet planes, router planes, shoulder planes, specialty planes, and more. Complete Guide to Wood Joinery will teach beginning and intermediate handplane users how to cut perfect dado, groove, rabbet, mortise, and tenon joints. A wonderful guide for any woodworker who is interested in using hand tools, it is loaded with technically rich diagrams, illustrations, practical advice, and skill-building exercises.

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A fourth generation craftsman, Scott brings a lifetime of involvement in craft, art, and design to his work. He has a broad base of hands-on experience as a carpenter, cabinetmaker, woodcarver, luthier, building contractor, and architectural designer. Scott has maintained a professional shop providing furniture, cabinetry, and woodcarving since 1976. Author of The Woodworkers Guide to Handplanes, he has written and illustrated articles on the craft of woodworking for Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, and Woodwork magazines.