The Wood Stash Project Book (Popular Woodworking) [Paperback]

Kerry Pierce (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2002 | Series: Popular Woodworking

All woodworkers have a pile of wood scraps lying about, but aren't sure how to put it to use. Kerry Pierce helps them work with this perfectly good material in fun and creative ways. In 18 projects, Pierce shows woodworkers how to tum their leftovers into great gifts using carving, turning and hand-tooling techniques. Step-by-step photos and instructions are included with each project. Woodworkers will start turning their "waste" into carved kitchen utensils, small boxes, letter openers, jewellrey, mixed-wood cutting boards, small sculptures and more!

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About the Author

Kerry Pierce has been a professional woodworker for more than twenty years and is the author of several woodworking books, including Making Elegant Gifts From Wood and The Woodworker's Visual Guide to Pricing Your Work. He has taught at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking and his pieces can be seen in galleries and exhibits throughout Ohio. He lives in Lancaster, Ohio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558706003
• ISBN-13: 978-1558706002
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,640,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Bowling Green State University (and later a master's in art from Ohio University, Kerry Pierce simultaneously began two careers, working for 32 years as a teacher of secondary English and working for 35 years as a furniture maker and writer specializing in Shaker and Shaker-inspired work. He's the author of 18 books, five of which focus on Shaker furniture and woodenware. One of the most recent of these-- "Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture"-- is the first book-length study of that community's melding of the Shaker aesthetic and the rural traditions of Kentucky furniture. The most recent of his Shaker titles is "Storage and Shelving the Shaker Way", the first book-length presentation of the ingenious methods by which Shaker craftsmen brought order to their physical world. His next book-- "Hand Planes in the Modern Shop"-- will be published in the Fall of 2010.

Two of his Shaker titles--"Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture" and "Making Shaker Woodenware"--have been translated into German.

Positive reviews of his books--in particular "The Custom Furniture Sourcebook" and "Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture"--have appeared in The Columbus Dispatch, The Chicago Daily Herald, and many other other papers. In addition positive reviews have appeared in Woodshop News, Popular Woodworking, Library Journal, Canadian Woodworking and other magazines. They have also received positive reviews in many web publications.

Twenty-two of his 150+ magazine articles (for Woodwork, Popular Woodworking, Woodcraft, Woodshop News, and The Woodworker's Journal and others) focus on this genre of woodworking.

He served as Contributing Editor of Woodwork magazine from 1995-2007.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got scrapwood??, December 7, 2004

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KRASSEL (SPANAWAY, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wood Stash Project Book (Popular Woodworking) (Paperback)

I'm just like every other woodworker out there. I generate a lot of cutoff's from my box making, that are generally too small to make another box out of, but too nice to just throw in the wood stove. Doesn't take long and the "scrap" starts taking over the shop. When I first got this book, a year ago, I hoped it would help me use up some of that pile. It did. This book is has 18 ideas and designs, that Mr Pierce goes into great detail about. Design/layout, cutting/fitting, etc. I actually think there are more pictures and drawings than there is text. His tips on tool use and finishing are excellent. After making several of the projects in this book, I began to generate idea's of my own, so many in fact, I had to start writing them down. I think this was intentional on his part. The book gets ya goin and then your imagination kicks in. An excellent book, highly recommend to every "scrap maker" out there.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great idea generator, October 5, 2008

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This review is from: The Wood Stash Project Book (Popular Woodworking) (Paperback)

Good book to help you find uses for that pile of wood cut-offs that are too good to just throw away. If you don't like his projects, then this will help you to generate projects of your own design.