Building Doors & Entryways: Projects, Plans & Procedures [Paperback]

Craig Weis (Author)

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Product Description

A guide for amateur woodworkers, showing how to design and build doors and entryways, this book describes workshop layout, safety requirements and material selection. Ordinary hand and power tools are required to make these doors, which include screen, interior, workshop and barn doors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc; illustrated edition edition (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806981687
• ISBN-13: 978-0806981680
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #512,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I had hoped for., March 25, 1997

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This review is from: Building Doors & Entryways: Projects, Plans & Procedures (Paperback)

There is too much fluff in this book. I was looking for a book with plans and ideas for building different style doors. Instead what I go were chapters on setting up a woodworking shop, how lumber reacts to moisture and how I should select l lumber, how to use a jointer and how to make different kinds of joints- all of which I am already familiar with. The final fifty pages or so were plans for a few doors plus a gallery of photos of different doors. Too many woodworking books do this. Walter Plaut

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Building doors yes, hanging & adjusting, no., February 11, 1999

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This review is from: Building Doors & Entryways: Projects, Plans & Procedures (Paperback)

Good book for building a door from scrach. Not a good book for hanging, repairing or adjusting doors.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate addition to my library, January 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Doors & Entryways: Projects, Plans & Procedures (Paperback)

Building Doors and Entryways taught me the basics of a challenging and at times mystifying trade. I came away from the book with a sense of confidence about building and installing doors, and with some ideas for creative door- and- entryway design as well. Worth reading for anyone fascinated and frustrated by doors and their construction. The author knows his subject.