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• BUILD LIKE A PRO: REMODELING A BATHROOM

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  Frechette shows you how to save time, avoid common mistakes, and get the stylish results you're after without breaking your budget. Selecting fixtures, finishes, and a floor plan, tap into existing water supply and waste lines, replace old tubs, showers, toilets, and sinks, comply with current building codes, repair damaged floors and walls, and install new flooring, lighting and ventilation. Frechette has been remodeling bathrooms for 20 years. He also leads seminars on popular building topics at trade shows around the country.

• TURNING PENS AND PENCILS

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  Here is the definitive guide to fashioning writing instruments, with superb photography that goes close-up and clarifies every procedure so that you can select the one that is best for you and your workshop. There are a host of possibilities for the pen maker to express their creativity. Fountain pens, twist pens, tapered rollerball, etc. You can use a lathe, ornamental milling, router in combination with a lathe, and a jewelers lathe. Includes a gallery of finished pens.

• VICTORIAN WOODTURNINGS AND WOODWORK

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  Reproduced from a rare original, this 1893 catalog provides nearly 800 detailed illustrations of stair railings, mantels, gables, moldings, and ornaments. Its varied, unusual examples of woodwork make it particularly valuable — woodturners, cabinetmakers, architects, preservationists, restorationists, designers, and students of Victoriana will find it inspiring and instructive.

• Tinkering Woodworker

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  The Tinkering Woodworker delivers original plans and expert know-how for 15 cleverly designed projects that make the home, office, and leisure time more efficient and fun. The projects for the home include an entryway organizer, a knife block, Lego-style storage cubes, a clever wooden frame for hanging family art, and a stylish tripod lamp. For the home office, a standing desk, laptop and iphone stands, and headphone hooks make getting work done more efficient than ever. Remembering that all work and no play is a bad approach to life, The Tinkering Woodworker also includes a beer tap and growler caddy, a bike rack, cathouse in the shape of a teardrop trailer, and a slingshot that would make Tom Sawyer proud. With each project presented in a crisp, easy-to-follow design that guarantees success, The Tinkering Woodworker is the woodworking book that today’s makers have been waiting for. The Tinkering Woodworker was created by The Tinkering Monkey, an Oakland, California based woodworking/industrial design duo with a passion for designing and crafting smart, functional wooden products that are built to last.

• THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED G/T SHAPING WOOD (PB)

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  Bird covers all the methods used to shape wood. Making squares, circles, coves, reeds, flutes, bent and laminated curves, edge treatments, and moldings as well as turned and carved shapes. This is a very graphic, step-by-step presentation with numerous visual maps, cross-references and indexes to make the information accessible to the reader. A good reference work for the woodworker.

• Bird Decoys of North America: Nature, History, and Art-NS

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  Bird decoys, which were first fashioned by Native American hunter-artists at least 1,500 years ago, are the only major folk art form to originate in North America. Today, decoys made during the heyday of decoy carving--roughly from 1840 to 1950--rank among the most avidly sought of all folk art collectibles, with some rare and outstanding examples fetching upwards of $8000,000 apiece at auction. These humble hunting tools, intended to deceive wildfowl by luring them into shooters' range, are now appreciated on many levels: as compelling works of sculpture, as exacting portraits of living and extinct species, and as irreplaceable historical objects. Successful decoy carvers of the past knew their prey intimately--spending countless hours observing game birds in the wild and then bringing their accumulated knowledge of different species' appearance and behavior to the carving bench. Because the works these artisans created were meant to attract avian eyes--conveying the essence of a bird's plumage, form, and attitude at a glance--older handmade decoys are deeply observed symbols of living birds that no merely decorative object, no matter how photographically accurate, can match. In this definitive, lavishly illustrated work, folk-art expert Robert Shaw chronicles the now-vanished era in which the great decoy makers pursued their craft. Shaw traces the natural history of North American bird species--more than sixty of which are represented in antique decoys. He relates the history of wildfowl hunting on this continent, detailing the excesses of nineteenth-century commercial hunting and the rise of a conservation movement aimed at ensuring bird species' long-term survival. He examines the distinctive forms produced in each major hunting area, from the Maritime Provinces of Canada to the Chesapeake Bay to the bayous of Louisiana and beyond. And, with a storyteller's gift for the entertaining anecdote, Shaw puts us in touch with the lives and circumstances of the decoy makers themselves.