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Lumber prices are soaring, and deforestation is a rising concern. Yet millions of pounds of perfectly usable wood are dumped in landfills every year. Wood Pallet Projects shows how anyone can upcycle salvaged pallet wood to create truly one-of-a-kind projects. Maverick craftsman Chris Gleason combines sound woodworking techniques with a hip designer's sensibility to unleash the limitless possibilities of the common skid. Inside you'll find inspired projects for rescuing and repurposing pallets. Some of his pieces celebrate the rough, edgy character of the material, while others are crafted as fine furniture. He shows how to construct both indoor and outdoor furniture in a variety of styles, along with other useful items, such as a birdhouse, a toolbox, and even a ukulele. There's plenty of nitty gritty here on working with pallets, including where to find them, how to process them into usable lumber, fasteners, sanding, and the best finishes (if any) to use. The author provides important advice on how to make sure that your pallets are safe, and not sprayed with harmful chemicals. A colorful gallery of finished work provides further inspiration for green crafting.

A guide that helps you master the old-fashioned craft of whittling. Even if you've never carved a piece of wood before, it shows you how to create iconic whittling classics like the wooden chain, ball-in-a-cage, arrow-through-the-heart and more. It takes you step-by-step through 10 projects, with concise instructions and more than 50 photographs.

Presents 62 cabin design interpretations that range in size from a cozy 100 square feet to a more spacious but still economical 1,000 square feet, and include sleeping accommodations, kitchen and bath facilities, and a heat source. This title provides floor plans with suggestions for designing the space for optimal use.

Covers three main areas of taking care of birds around the home. This book emphasises on a back-to-nature approach with houses designed to not only look natural - with careful wood selection and an unobtrusive appearance - but with fitting the house to the bird itself, addressing the needs of individual species.

A step-by-step guide which covers various aspects of building a garage from the planning and design stage through to construction and completion.

Whether readers are looking to add a small solar component to provide a modest contribution to their home energy needs, build a new home powered completely by solar panels or do anything in between, this updated, revised and expanded title provides detailed answers to all of their questions.

Featuring colour photographs, this beginner's guide covers tools and materials, the best woods, holding and sharpening chip carving knives and laying out and transferring patterns. It also contains chapters on borders, grids, rosettes, free-form design, positive image design and lettering.

The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come.

Guitars, furniture, even canoes... bending wood adds a new dimension to what can be built in a workshop. This resource provides woodworkers information they need: from the woods best suited to bending to understanding fundamental hand and machine bending techniques. It includes topics of moisture content and wood preparation and elasticity.

Everything you need to know to achieve a DIY-standard retreat - the sort of holiday home you have always dreamed of. The authors describe each step in the process, from identifying the land to deciding on and developing plans for a structure that suits your lifestyle and budget.

Includes equipment requirements, instructions for creating wall foundations, coping with drainage problems, and hints for incorporating gates, fences, and stiles.

The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders

Written by the founder of the Yacht Design Institute, this book contains answers to several boat related topics. It contains information on many aspects of boat-design and serves as an introduction for backyard boatbuilders, students of boat design, or someone looking to buy a first boat.

Tells the reader how to select the right boat; establish a work schedule and budget; buy the right tools and equipment; select alternatives to endangered tropical rainforest woods; repair and modify the hull, topsides, deckhouse, masts, and interior. This title also tells when, why, and how to use fiberglass; paint and refinishing.

This manual is a comprehensive workshop guide for constructing instruments belonging to the mandolin family: the mandolin, tenor mandola and octave mandola. It describes the various techniques of the craft and explains the science of their unique sound.

A fully comprehensive survey of the use of a lathe for all forms of screwcutting in all thread forms, imperial and metric. Calculations, gear trains, conversions, etc are all explained and also set out in tabular form.

The Bread Builders explains the grains and flours, leavens and doughs, the chemistry of bread, and the physics of baking in a big book filled with helpful drawings, photographs, recipes, and tips. In a unique angle for a book on baking bread, it also includes detailed diagrams and instructions for building your own masonry bread oven from scratch.

A Unimat mini-lathe authority has developed numerous accessories and techniques to assist the model engineer in getting the best from the machine. These projects increase the scope of the machine and advise on the performance of a number of tricky operations.

Presents a collection of 45 building plans for chicken coops. This title features designs that include basic easy-to-assemble hoop houses, A-frames, and multi-storied wooden structures, as well as larger models for small commercial farms. It shows photos of many of the featured coop plans, as well as some kits and coops built from recyclables.

This book is a thorough and practical discourse on how to use the lathe for all types of milling work. Next to turning, the most valuable use of the lathe is for milling operations, either using the lathe itself to drive the cutters or by extending its scope by adding a separate milling attachment.

Filled with both small and large projects for boxes of all shapes, sizes, textures, and finishes, this guide covers all the techniques necessary to create everything from Japanese puzzle boxes to band- sewn boxes.