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1.		Graphic Guide to Frame Construction (For Pros By Pros) from Taunton Press Price: $14.41 Customer Review: This book shows how to make basic framing items in 2x4 and 2x6 construction. However it fails, miserably. It includes too much info. on things unrelated to framing: Foundations, windows, etc. and not enough on framing. It's drawing are poor in places, the windows section is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Building Kitchen Cabinets from Taunton Press Price: $12.87 Customer Review: I am an experienced cabinet builder, and this book taught me a few things and gave me some great ideas for new cabinet designs. Probably one of the best how to build cabinet books I have seen. This is for faceframe style cabinet building.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Working Alone from Taunton Pr Price: $21.90 Customer Review: As the owner/operator of a handyman service I am always trying to add to my list of jobs I can do without assistance. He mentions a few ideas I have discovered on my own that I know work, and a lot more I might not ever have thought about. I hesitated buying the book due to a couple of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Wood Flooring: A Complete Guide to Layout, Installation & Finishing from Taunton Press Price: $29.68 Customer Review: What's not to say about this book. One of the most detailed on the subject of wood flooring. Anyone interested in doing the job right, not just doing the job, of installing flooring from start to finish should get this book. Very detailed in all aspects from getting the wood to finishing to problem... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Trim Carpentry & Built-Ins (Taunton's Build Like a Pro) from Taunton Press Price: $5.32 Customer Review: This book is one of many DIY books I have recently added to my library. The author's language is simplistic and descriptive. The pictures are well detailed and are laid out well. The book covers the subject matter very well and will definitely boost the confidence of the beginner as well as giving... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Tree Houses You Can Actually Build: A Weekend Project Book (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.) from Houghton Mifflin Company Price: $9.00 Customer Review: my husband loved this book. answers lots of questions about how to anchor to the tree and various ladders. the tree house is awesome and looks great too.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Black & Decker Complete Guide to Carpentry for Homeowners: Basic Carpentry Skills & Everyday Home Repairs from Creative Publishing international Price: $9.44 Customer Review: After owning a home for 30 years started to do it myself, this book is a valuable reasouce. I use it all the time.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker: Shop Drawings and Professional Methods for Designing and Constructing Every Kind of Kitchen and Built-In Cabinet from Fox Chapel Publishing Price: $13.89 Customer Review: If you have any interest in building cabinets this is a must have book. Well written, organized and detailed. It includes everything you need to know from layout to installation. An easy to follow explanation of how it's done from A. to Z. Bob tells you what works and what won't. If I could only... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.	[no image]	Woodworking With the Router: Professional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use from Rodale Pr Price: $10.00 Customer Review: This is a terrific book. Mr Hylton takes you through a whole range of bits and pieces for improving your router table setup through to building your own with a complete cutting list. Lots of pictures, lots of tips and techniques that I wish I knew about years ago! I am now planning on building an... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Building Stairs (For Pros By Pros) from Taunton Press Price: $11.95 Customer Review: My interest was specifically on how to build outdoor stairs, which many "Construction" oriented books, in my opinion, do not explain to any useful degree. This book is very informative and the information is extremely useful, not only for pros, but also for those who have a working knowledge of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Hardwood Floors from Taunton Press Price: $12.30 Customer Review: I prepared myself for my first hardwoor flooring project by reading this book. It turned out really good (according to my wife). Without this book, however, it would be hidden underneath a new carpet right now! Too many DIY books are written by technical writers who work for companies that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets from Betterway Books Price: $19.50 Customer Review: If you are interested in building cheap and ugly cabinets, this is the book for you. Most people would be far better served by going to their local Ikea or Home Depot and buying what's on sale. There are 2 real issues with this book. First, everything in it is hideously ugly (as other reviewers... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Practical Pole Building Construction: With Plans for Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings from Williamson Publishing Company Price: $10.86 Customer Review: this book is a great intro to pole construction.I will be keeping this one as a reference source!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Building the Timber Frame House: The Revival of a Forgotten Art from Fireside Price: $10.49 Customer Review: This is the fourth book on timber framing that I've read. some content is covered in the other books but there is still some very valuable information that I have not seen until reading this book. I am planning on building a Timber Frame and this book has answered a lot of questions that some other... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Ultimate Guide to Crown Molding: Plan, Design, Install from Creative Homeowner Price: $11.17 Customer Review: This book has a great amount of types of crown molding and good pictures of many configurations but falls short in detailed information on how to install. for someone who has not much experience with a miter saw it could be confusing. there are other book that show how to cut and hang the molding,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Treehouses & Playhouses You Can Build from Gibbs Smith Price: $10.45 Customer Review: I looked at about ten books on constructing tree houses (via inter-library loan) and then bought this one, which was the best of the group I looked at. I built a 10x10' tree house for my kids using it as my only reference work. This was my first large carpentry project (larger than a birdhouse, that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Low Cost Pole Building Construction: The Complete How-To Book from Storey Publishing, LLC Price: $8.97 Customer Review: I thought this was a great book, I picked this up at the library and this was a wonderful read from front to back. PROS: 1. Learn how to build at a low cost. 2. Provide shelter/housing one weekend at a time. CONS: N/A I also purchased a real estate book on how to get... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		The New Complete Guide to the Band Saw: Everything You Need to Know About the Most Important Saw in the Shop from Fox Chapel Publishing Price: $12.30 Customer Review: Mark Duginske's New Guide concerning band saws is a must have for anyone considering buying or using a band saw. There are other guides out there authored by some very able woodworkers, but IMHO, Duginske's is the best. One tip not covered in the guide: where to obtain the stoning tool that Mark... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Carpentry & Building Construction, Student Text from Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Price: $59.75 Customer Review: I purchased Carpentry & Building Construction Student Text for study purposes, in preparation for my Contractor's License exam. I found the book very informative. Because it is not too complicated, I am able to use it on the job site as well.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders from Firefly Books Price: $10.88 Customer Review: A good book on just about everything a "do it yourselfer" needs to build a backyard shed. Contains a good assortment of plans with drawings and just enough practical information to make shed building fun and easy.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames from Fox Maple Press Price: $18.72 Customer Review: To date I have purchased three books on timber framing. I would buy anyone of them again, but this is definitely the best one for a lay person like myself. The guidance is easier to follow. I also liked the fact that he is not afraid to give specific names on where to purchase tools and supplies.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Shoji: How to Design, Build, and Install Japanese Screens from Kodansha International Price: $11.58 Customer Review: Book was in new condition and arrived within a couple of days of ordering. Great put-you-to-sleep writing style. Technical but fun and relaxing. The best how-to I've run across.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Sheds & Garages (Outdoor Buildings) from Sunset Publishing Corporation Price: $3.47 Customer Review: One of the better books on the construction of sheds that I could find. Contains a good balance of photos, plans and technical information needed to design and construct a shed. Provides material list for the shed plans and info on useful tools, foundations, framing and siding, selection of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building from Storey Publishing, LLC Price: $11.77 Customer Review: This is a nice book to get started with timber framing. Vermont Timber Works' website also has a lot of information. [...]	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Woodworker's Guide to Veneering & Inlay: Techniques, Projects & Expert Advice for Fine Furniture from Fox Chapel Publishing Price: $15.09 Customer Review: this book tells how to do many veneer projects with many pictures and instructive captions	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		The Black & Decker Complete Guide: Build Your Kids a Treehouse from Creative Publishing international Price: $12.83 Customer Review: I bought 5 tree house books from Amazon last year. The others are very inspirational, kid of like [...] who makes the worlds coolest treehouses. This book gives great instruction for the common man. Buy multiple books when planning your treehouse, but own this one before you build. b	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Trim Carpentry (Taunton's Build Like a Pro) from Taunton Press Price: $7.67 Customer Review: I thought this book was very well written and gave lots of useful tips. You can tell an actual professional trim carpenter wrote it. I especially appreciated the pictures that are marked A, B, C etc..which correspond in kind to the same A, B, C in the narrative. This helps to make things clear and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.	[no image]	Modern Carpentry: Building Construction Details in Easy-To-Understand Form from Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher Customer Review: I am a builder / carpenter that collects carpentry books for ideas and for the purpose of tryinng to stay current with new techniques. I purchased this book used from an Amazon reseller, and upon receiving it am dissapointed. The book is very out of date and due to its age, is not comparable to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		1001 Ideas for Trimwork from Creative Homeowner Price: $13.52 Customer Review: Nothing special, but there are good pictures and the moulding profiles are helpful. The quality on the other hand, is garbage. I owned my copy about a month when the pages started to fall out in large sections. One of the poorest quality books I have owned and I own a lot of books. For that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		The Complete Japanese Joinery from Hartley and Marks Publishers Price: $369.00 Customer Review: For hours of pleasure. Good tips, good help, wonderfull ideas. Super class. For woodworking can't without it. I have to find a way to keep it clean because the book is always with my tools.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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