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Publications
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- Lonnie Bird has written many books and magazine articles. You can
find out more about these items and how to purchase his books by following
the links to the publishers.
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Using Woodworking Tools
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| This step-by-step pictorial reference
covers using all the tools found in a modern woodworking shop.
Organized for quick access, this book makes it easy to find exactly
the technique you are looking for. Over 850 photos and drawings
illustrate using hand and power tools, including choosing the right
tool for the job, setting it up, and basic and special operations.
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The
Complete Illustrated Guide to Routers
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Expand your skills through understanding of the router and
what you can achieve with it
The router, for its
simple design, is one of the most versatile tools you can
own. You can shape decorative profiles, cut grooves,
flush-trim, raise panels, and cut almost any joint.
In the Complete Illustrated Guide to Routers, you’ll
learn how to unleash this versatility by choosing the
appropriate bit, and guiding the cut in the proper manner.
You’ll also learn that while a multitude of bits are
available, a few essential bits will enable you to
accomplish many of your routing tasks.
More than 800 photos and drawings show you how to use and
care for your router and how to get the most from it. In
addition to mastering the use of your router, you’ll also
learn about router tables, and how to make one that works
perfectly in your shop.
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The
Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood
A comprehensive and graphic wood
shaping reference
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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 wood and made it accessible to every woodworker.
In Shaping Wood, Bird shows you how to dress up your furniture,
personalize your work and create period details. Learn to turn, carve, bend, cut
and shape with hand tools or machines. All the techniques are in this accessible
guide -- from cutting a simple circle to carving a ball-and-claw foot. He leads
you through visualizing, drawing a shape and then choosing the appropriate tool
for creating it.
- Graphic, step-by-step presentation of key techniques
and methods
- Visual maps, cross-references and indexes make
information easy to find
- Covers the many woodworking methods and tools
available
- Modern, up-to-date coverage of tools and techniques
- Part of a three-volume encyclopedia of woodworking
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The Bandsaw Book
A comprehensive, completely
up-to-date guide to one of the most versatile tools in a woodshop
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The bandsaw is found in three out of four professional
woodshops. In fact, it’s the most widely used woodworking tool of all.
Although deceptively simple -- a steel blade rotating around two rubber-clad
wheels -- the bandsaw does its best work when it’s properly tuned.
Enter Lonnie Bird: In The Bandsaw Book, Bird
gives you all the information you may have wished came with the owner’s manual
plus a lot more, like what to look for when buying a bandsaw and how to tune it
up for optimal performance.
Organized for easy access, the book provides in-depth,
practical information on setup, tuning, choosing blades, and operation. Also
covered are all bandsaw techniques from basic to advanced. More than 225 color
photos and illustrations.
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The Shaper Book
Techniques for using this versatile
and productive machine
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With
the proliferation of table-mounted routers in the woodshop, most woodworkers
have never experienced the power and precision that a stationary shaper has to
offer. In addition to a quiet, vibration-free cut, the shaper allows you to
surpass the capabilities of the router by offering wider, deeper cuts,
production runs, and custom moldings. In this book, author Lonnie Bird demonstrates how
versatile and extremely productive the shaper can be. You’ll see that the
shaper, with its vast assortment of cutterheads, fences and jigs, can handle a
wide variety of woodworking applications.
Regardless of your level of woodworking, the shaper can
increase the quality and efficiency of your work, and it can broaden the scope
of your woodworking.
More than just a primer on shaper techniques, this book
gives shop-proven examples of how the shaper can be put to use. With an emphasis
on safety, this book is a step-by-step guide that will teach you all about the
shaper: from basic setups to cutting curved molding profiles to designing shaper
jigs that will expand your woodworking potential.
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- Magazine Articles
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- Lonnie Bird has published a number of articles in the following woodworking
magazines:
Fine Woodworking
American Woodworker
Popular Woodworking
Woodworker's
Journal
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