Working at Woodworking: How to Organize Your Shop and Your Business (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Let's assume we are going to create a perfect shop from scratch..." (more)
Key Phrases: block production method, carcase components, elevation cards, Product Design, Project Planner, Red Fox (more...)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Taunton (December 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942391675
• ISBN-13: 978-0942391671
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #890,684 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and nutritious!, October 31, 2002

By A Customer

This books is both useful and fun, but in an unusual way: It combines solid business planning information with a lot of information on how to set up your shop. I have read a number of woodworking/business books, and they are dull, not enough jigs and tool talk. Here you get both in an integrated way that makes each strand more useful: All the technology has a purpose.

Really a unique way of packaging a woodworking book. Of course the ultimate lesson is that you should drop all that woodworking nonsense and like Mr. Tolpin become a nationally recognized writer of coffee table books. They're good too, but I miss him.

Oh, by the way, the focus is a two car garage sized cabinet shop.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do you yearn to be a woodworker, February 3, 1998

By A Customer

This book is an absolute must for anybody who wants to be a cabinetmaker or own a small shop. Of course you could work 20 years and get this information first hand, the hard way. Mr Tolpin --Hat's off--- Great job, Thank you very, very much

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for the Newbie, January 11, 2009

By	Thomas( Doc Savage 45) (St. James, MN United States) - See all my reviews

I am in search of expertise as I finish my barn/shop. Tolpin is a one man shop, and he lets us benifit from his mistakes, and planning. Especially in situations where you may be doing repetitive cabinet building? There are some pieces of information that are common knowledge, but not until they are stated? There were moments when I said "oh?" "Yeah!"

This is an early work by Mr. Tolpin, and it is an information book for we who are also in the early stages.

Would have given five stars but there is some additional information now available.

The pictures and problem solving are worth having.