The Best of Wood Boxes [Paperback]

Popular Woodworking Books (Editor), R. Adam Blake (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998

Illustrated throughout, this book features the very best in design, functionality, quality and craftsmanship. It provides endless ideas and inspiration for creating boxes of all kinds, including jewellery boxes, blanket chests, CD boxes and more.'

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558704760
• ISBN-13: 978-1558704763
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,893,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great boxes to admire, not to make, September 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best of Wood Boxes (Paperback)

The other reviewer is correct. Certainly the title promises plans for these boxes. The plans are just one drawing of the box with a list of materials. So if you want to make these boxes, you'll have to do some figuring out. However, if you want to be inspired, check out this book. Even non-woodworkers will page through this book and find the boxes shown to be beautiful and neat. Boxes as objets d'art... who knew?

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Offers little to the aspiring box builder., May 30, 1998

By 

C. K. Weiner "eosinophil" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Wood Boxes (Paperback)

The book presents attractive photographs of a number of boxes that will stimulate aspiring beginning and intermediate box builders.

Though offered to suggest "how to" construction guidance, especially with plans, the book has only the most meager detail of construction and nothing that can truly be called plans. The introduction warns readers that the boxes presented ought not be copied and if they are legal action is a possibility. The result is a book more bent on preventing copies of the displayed boxes than providing useful information for the box building reader.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, July 23, 2002

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"carej" (RTP, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Wood Boxes (Paperback)

I bought this book thinking that it contain info on tips & techniques, as well as detailed plans; I was wrong.

The 127 pages are filled with color photos of interesting boxes, but not much else. There is a materials list for each piece, but no plans or instructions beyond a stylized isometric sketch.

If you are looking for a book on boxes to decorate your coffee table, this is the one. If you are looking for a practicle guide to box construction, look elsewhere.