I have now bought three Woodsmith books:
The Home Workshop
Classic cabinetry
Shop-Built Jigs and fixtures
What are your opinions of the plans in these books?
I look at some of the jigs in the third book and wonder if they are not too
over-elaborate for the job they are supposed to do. For example, the box
joint jig on page 118. I compare this to one in Carol Reed's router book
which is simpler and one in Yeung Chen's book "Classic Joints with power
tools" where he just seems to use a piece of plywood and a peg!
I really like leafing through these books as they are beautifully
illustrated and ring-bound to lie flat. I am just a beginner and
accumulating a number of books to educate myself in cabinet work. Right
now I am half way through building the tabletop case on page 18 of Classic
Cabinetry. Hence the posts about dovetails and routers.
Best Regards,
Jack Fearnley
Ditto on modifying the plans a bit. --dave
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> Ditto on bathroom reading.
>
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:58:45 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:12:31 -0500, Jack Fearnley
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Dave Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> Ditto on modifying the plans a bit. --dave
>>>
>>>
>>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Ditto on bathroom reading.
>>>>
>>
>>Interesting comments. As I am a beginner I would be interested to know what
>>you mean by modifying the plans. Do you just mean rescaling them to a more
>>convenient size or is it more complex than that.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>> Jack Fearnley
>
>What I mean is taking ideas or features, dimensions, etc., from them
>and using them rather than building the project as-is. I like a lot of
>their smaller stuff, such as the jigs.
>
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I am a retired guy who has every single issue of woodsmith going all
the way back to Number 1(one).... Probably one of my better ideas
was to save all of them... Now IF (big if really) I get bored or need
something to work on between major projects I have a Bi-Zillion
projects to play with...
BUT over the years I know...read as I am 100 percent,
absolutely...,positively... that I never..., ever... ,not even
once... NOT modified a set of plans...
With woodsmith I "alter" their methods of joinery allot... many of
their plans are intended to "teach" you how to make this joint or that
joint etc..BUT in many cases I use a easier method that I know will
work.... What I hardly ever alter is the overall look and scale of
the project.. and my choice of Material (wood) is almost always
determined by what I have in the shop... A cherry night stand in
Woodsmith will come out of my shop as a Walnut Nightstand etc...
I also make an occasional boo boo and have to alter everything
to adjust for my mistake... lol
Bob Griffiths
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:12:31 -0500, Jack Fearnley
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Dave Jackson wrote:
>
>> Ditto on modifying the plans a bit. --dave
>>
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Ditto on bathroom reading.
>>>
>
>Interesting comments. As I am a beginner I would be interested to know what
>you mean by modifying the plans. Do you just mean rescaling them to a more
>convenient size or is it more complex than that.
>
>Best Regards,
> Jack Fearnley
What I mean is taking ideas or features, dimensions, etc., from them
and using them rather than building the project as-is. I like a lot of
their smaller stuff, such as the jigs.
--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:20:45 -0500, Jack Fearnley
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I have now bought three Woodsmith books:
>
>The Home Workshop
>Classic cabinetry
>Shop-Built Jigs and fixtures
>
>What are your opinions of the plans in these books?
>
>I look at some of the jigs in the third book and wonder if they are not too
>over-elaborate for the job they are supposed to do. For example, the box
>joint jig on page 118. I compare this to one in Carol Reed's router book
>which is simpler and one in Yeung Chen's book "Classic Joints with power
>tools" where he just seems to use a piece of plywood and a peg!
>
>I really like leafing through these books as they are beautifully
>illustrated and ring-bound to lie flat. I am just a beginner and
>accumulating a number of books to educate myself in cabinet work. Right
>now I am half way through building the tabletop case on page 18 of Classic
>Cabinetry. Hence the posts about dovetails and routers.
>
>Best Regards,
> Jack Fearnley
I have the first two and they were bathroom reading for a while. Lots
of good information, although if I ever built a lot of the projects in
the 'workshop' book I'd modify them a good bit.
--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.
Dave Jackson wrote:
> Ditto on modifying the plans a bit. --dave
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Ditto on bathroom reading.
>>
Interesting comments. As I am a beginner I would be interested to know what
you mean by modifying the plans. Do you just mean rescaling them to a more
convenient size or is it more complex than that.
Best Regards,
Jack Fearnley