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• THE BOY MECHANIC MAKES TOYS

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  This follow-up to The Boy Mechanic features more than 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make. Charmingly designed to capture that old-fashioned flavor, every imaginative project remains as engaging today as ever, with its appeal fully intact. There’s amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child’s playhouse and a miniature windmill; magic tricks, such as an “X-Ray” pack of cards and mystery coin box; items for the great outdoors, which range from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, “scien-terrific” motors and engines, and entertaining objects for an older child to create and play with.

• Basic Marquetry and Beyond: Expert Techniques for Crafting Beautiful Images with

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  The centuries-old craft of marquetry will add richness and beauty to all of your creative woodworking projects—and mastering marquetry is easier than you think! Veneer is easy to work with, doesn’t require a lot of equipment or space, and allows a woodworker or crafter to create or embellish a project with rare woods at an inexpensive price. Basic Marquetry and Beyond is for today’s active hands and creative minds ready to discover just how easy this classic technique can be, no matter what your skill level. With 36 projects, from a simple set of bookmarks to a challenging cone-shaped bowl, Basic Marquetry and Beyond, by master craftsman Ken Horner, will help any beginner quickly feel like a pro, while experts will learn valuable new marquetry tricks. Every step is clearly explained, while more than 250 images, easy-to-follow patterns, and veneer recommendations take the guesswork out of marquetry technique. Basic Marquetry and Beyond is a must-have guide for everyone who wants to create beautiful original projects or embellish their woodworking with stunning handcrafted style.

• Classic Whittling: Basic Techniques and Old-Time Projects

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  by Rick Wiebe. In a fast-paced and noisy world that makes your head spin, the classic craft of whittling is the perfect antidote. It makes you slow down, take a breath, and live in the moment. Your hands are crafting instead of typing or texting. Best of all, whittling is simple to learn, lasts a lifetime, and requires only a simple knife. It’s no wonder it’s become more popular over recent years. No longer something only old men do, whittling has reached parents spending time with kids, techies taking a break from computer screens and anyone who enjoys being outdoors. In Classic Whittling, author Rick Wiebe — a whittler for more than 60 years — provides the fundamentals for anyone looking to slow down and learn this classic craft. Classic Whittling begins with the basics of a good knife and how to keep it sharp. Wiebe then covers the best woods to use, ranging from sticks to blocks of wood, along with the basic techniques that will get you started. After that, there’s no limit to what you can do. Projects start out with toys, a whistle, and “treens” — simple forks, spoons, and other utensils used while camping. From there, it’s on to the more challenging projects: the chain, the interlinking hearts, the ball-in-a-cage, the sphere-within-a-sphere and several other classics. This handy and fun guide covers them all step-by-step. By the end of Classic Whittling, your knife will become a magic wand that turns firewood into fun, fascinates your family and friends, and lowers your blood pressure.

• RESIDENTIAL WINDOWS, 3rd ed.: A GUIDE TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE

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  A valuable book for home owners, architects, designers, and builders. This is a look at the state of the art today, as well as windows of the future and it offers information necesary to evaluate windows and make intelligent choices. Covers energy performance, glazing materials, window assembly, design implications with energy efficient windows, window and skylight selection consideration, and energy performance and cost considerations.

• NEW BEST OF FWW: SMALL WOODWORKING SHOPS

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  Locating and organizing your shop, good floor plans, essential tools, good choices for lighting and heating, dust control and collection, shop safety, benches, vises, aprons, and pegboards. These are articles that have appeared in recent Fine Woodworking Magazine issues.

• RELIEF CARVING IN WOOD: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION

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  Pye is a professional carver and here presents a course on relief woodcarving. He uses one design, a fish, and explains exactly what he is doing, why he is doing it, every step of the way. Pye discusses tools, wood, the workplace, and what to do if things go wrong.