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The Art Of Making Elegant Wood Boxes: Award Winning Designs

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I found this book to very good on explaning how to make different kinds of joints, hinges, and box desings. It gives you many good desings to work off of and shows you how to use your tools properly. One thing that I did not like about the book was that it just shows you how make these boxes by just using power tools, but never tells you how to make them by just using hand tools, even though they do encourage it.

The boxes in this book are quite attractive. Construction technique is a little iffy (ie squareness is not assured through joinery, just by clamping it together and fiddling with it), but acceptable. However, the box that I built from it had incorrect dimensions in the cutting list, so the carefully grainmatched drawer pieces were too small for the hole. Not cool. There were other examples where it's clear that no-one made the boxes from the descriptions to confirm the instructions.
I would recommend the book more for the concepts than the details.

Nice book on box making images, not as much detail into assembly as I'd like. OK under $15 delivered. I don't personally like to use sanding as a method of milling wood.

If you're looking for directions on how to make the beautiful boxes shown here, beware. In several places there are whole missing sections. For example, the list of pieces to make for one box contains 19 items, but only ten of them are shown in the lone diagram. You're on your own to figure out how the others go together.

Also, the writing is often muddy. Some explanations are clumsily written.

But the pictures are pretty.