Thirty-five chapters on bending wood for both boats and furniture, all from the experts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Making a Basket from a Tree
Splitting Out a Firewood Tote
Plans for a Swiss Shaving Horse
Making Wooden Buckets
Bending with Ammonia
Steambending
Fixtures for Steambending
A Time and Motion Study
Oval Boxes
Shaker Carrier
Kerf-Bent Boxes
Hot-Pipe Bending
Bending Irons
An Adaptable Instrument Form
The Shape of a Violin
Plywood
Michael Thonet
Bent Laminations
Tapered Laminations
Bending Compound Curves
The Wood's Own Way of Bending
A Platform Fixture
Bending with Steel Hands
Questions & Answers
Cross-Counrty Skis, the Easy Way
Cross-Country Skis, Norwegian Style
Bending a Tray
Boomerang
Throwing the Boomerang
Shop-Built Vacuum Press
A One-Piece Chair
A Glue Press
Circular Stairway
Lapstrake Boatbuilding
Building a Lapstrake Boat
Controlling the Boat's Shape
Laminated Fishing Net
Index
by Fine Woodworking
122 pp., softcover
