Introducing a new woodworking series in the tradition of Tage Frid...a
series filled with essential information required by woodworkers
today. For the first time ever, all the techniques and processes
necessary to craft beautiful things from wood have been compiled into
three comprehensive volumes: The Complete Illustrated Guides. Highly
visual and written by woodworking's finest craftsmen, these three titles
-- Furniture & Cabinet Construction, Shaping Wood, and Joinery
-- will establish a new standard for shop reference books.
Shape is critical to the ultimate success or failure of a piece of
furniture. Knowing this, custom-furniture maker Lonnie Bird has
taken the complex subject of shaping and in this book made it accessible
to every woodworker. He guides the reader toward first visualizing, then
drawing a shape, and then choosing the appropriate tool for creating it.
Shaping techniques of all kinds are covered here -- from the simplest
ones to more complex bending and carving.