Product Description

Taunton's Complete Illustrated guide to Box Making presents both small and large projects. This book covers how to create boxes in different shapes, Japanese puzzle boxes, and band-sawn boxes. 500 color photos are featured in this clear and comprehensive woodworking guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24756 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Released on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781561585939
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Doug Stowe is a professional furniture designer and box maker. He is the author of 5 books including Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making, Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques, Simply Beautiful Boxes, and Making Elegant Custom Tables. He also writes for Fine Woodworking and Woodwork magazines. In 2001 he started a pre-K through 12th grade woodworking program called "Wisdom of the Hands", recognizing the importance of hands-on learning for all children.

Customer Reviews

No Comparison
When I started making boxes, a friend of mine gave me a copy of David Freedman's book Box-Making Basics. That book contains photographs of a variety of boxes, has large line drawings to illustrate details, has precise measurements for each box, and has a numbered step-by-step procedure for making each box. That book enabled me to make several of the boxes in the book with relative ease. Stowe's book, on the other hand, really disappointed me. Although it has colored photographs of the boxes, they are so small that it's difficult to see what's going on in them. His procedures for actually building the boxes are way too general for me to follow. In a couple of sentences, he attempts to describe five or six procedures at a time. He has no dimensions for any of the boxes. There are no line drawings to further illustrate what he's trying to show in the tiny photographs. If I had used this book when I first started making boxes, I probably would have built book cases instead.

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This is a superfluous book. It is an essentially contextless version of another book written by the same author "Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques". The book provides very detailed descriptions of a large number of woodworking procedures but does not put them into the context of any particular project. It is a grab bag of procedures rather than a thoroughly worked out tutorial or set of projects. The primary value for this particular book is as a companion to "Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques", which lacks some critical details, some of which can be found in this volume.

Well worth the price!!!!
I have been making box's for a few years now, but am always looking for new ideas and techniques. Doug Stowe's book, although published in the early 90's, is one of those gems that come along now and then. It is laid out in a logical and informative manner, with a lot of pictures and side notes. It is full of technique, design, and tool choices. On most projects he gives several alternatives for accomplishing the desired effect.
If you can pick up just one new idea from this book it is well worth the price, and I managed to glean a half dozen.
I would reccommend this book to everyone interested in improving their box making endeavors. Really enjoyed this one.