Detailed instructions to make boxes using a variety of decoration techniques. Includes 3 simple boxes for beginners and a gallery of designs from well-known makers.
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Small boxes for jewelry, trinkets, pencils, or simply for decoration are popular at craft shows. Here are directions for constructing 11 boxes, ranging from the simple rectangle to the complex oval body or curved lid. Basic directions on decorating with veneer, cross banding, parquetry, marquetry, and more are included. Each construction step is pictured with a colored line drawing, or a photograph with a few lines of explanatory text that are occasionally too brief for the novice to understand easily. A table router or chuck shaper is the main power tool required for most of the projects, and a band saw is needed for some. Recommended for libraries with a good demand for craft and woodworking books.
- W.T. Johnston, formerly with Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- W.T. Johnston, formerly with Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not exactly a guide to design and construction.,
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This review is from: The Book of Boxes: The Complete Practical Guide to Design and Construction (Hardcover)
While the photographs alone make this book worth the effort, it really doesn't live up to it's name. Maybe this is why the book is out of print. It starts with all the philosophy about boxes, what they are and what they aren't. This is nothing new.
It then goes into very short instructions on how to build numerous boxes. It's not that the instructions are vague or the drawings poor, it just doesn't flow right when it comes to helping someone build the boxes. If you are a beginning woodworker I would recommend several other books such as Building Beautiful Boxes with your Band Saw by Lois Keener Ventura. This is the type of book that lays it out well and really helps. If you are an intermediate or advanced woodworker, these designs and processes may be right on target and this book it one you should make sure to add to your library. The pictures alone help me give this book a little higher score. They are beautiful photos of beautiful pieces. Go forth and maketh thee sawdust!
5.0 out of 5 stars
How to book,
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This review is from: Book of Boxes (Paperback)
Purchased this book online thru Amazon from a company called Flying Covers Book. The book arrive quicker than I expected from the UK. Book of Boxes by Crawford, Andrew is a very informative, and easy to follow book showing the techniques and methods for making beautiful wooden boxes for holding various personal treasures. There are many easy to understand diagrams, pictures, and instructions.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book!,
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This review is from: The Book of Boxes: The Complete Practical Guide to Design and Construction (Hardcover)
This is another great book by Andrew Crawford, I have two of them both are very good reading easy to follow plans and have lots of nice pictures/ illistrations. I rcomend both of Andrews books to any woodworker who wants to make very elegant boxes as a gift or just for fun.
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