Working in Wood

This is an excellent visual introduction to basic woodworking with an array of instructive illustrations and accompanying text. Although the power tools could use an update to include more modern techniques the book does have a sort of timeless quality. The exploded illustrations in the joinery section are especially useful as are the descriptions of various tool applications. Highly recommended (especially given the undervalued price online).

The book is targeted to newbies, which is the reason why I bought it, and found it really interesting and containing lots of elements I never thought about regarding woodworking. It also contains plenty of illustrations with explanations, although they sometimes don't appear to be in sync.It has a project section but, since it was not written by the author, it does not match very well with the content of the book.Anyway, if you just want to have a general understanding of working with wood, this book will be of help.

For the beginner or master woodworker, this is the only real wood working guide that I have found. This book is my right arm in my shop. If I want to know how to make a plain or fancy joint or project or figure out what kind of tool I need for a certain project, this is the book I go to. It is simple and very easy to read and understand. It needs to be brought back on the market. I highly recomend this book for beginners who are trying to figure out how to do quality wood working right from the begining. There are a lot of books on woodworking published, but none like this one. There are wannabees and there are masters and this was written by a master.