Books

Knowledge that lasts generations. Our hand-selected library covers everything from traditional timber framing techniques to modern woodworking and landscaping best practices. Whether you're learning your first mortise and tenon or refining advanced joinery, you'll find guides written by builders and read by us. If you asked us what we recommend for reading to improve your skills, we'd direct you here.

The LAP hardcover book Doormaking and Window-Making explores traditional joinery techniques for crafting doors and windows, with line drawings on the cover.

Doormaking and Window-Making

 - $50.00
The Woodworker’s Pocket Book by LAP is a hardcover book with a navy blue cover and white text, edited by Charles H. Hayward, offering timeless woodworking guidance for hand-tool enthusiasts.

The Woodworker’s Pocket Book

 - $27.00
The LAP hardcover book By Hand & Eye focuses on woodworking design and proportion. It features a tan cover with a simple compass line drawing and black text, shown angled on a white background.

By Hand & Eye

 - $74.00
Book cover for Timber Frame Construction: All About Post-and-Beam Building from Ingram Content Group, featuring a photo of traditional timber framing under a blue sky.

Timber Frame Construction: All About Post-and-Beam Building

 - $29.00
Taunton Press presents the cover of "Graphic Guide to Frame Construction," 4th Edition by Rob Thallon, showcasing detailed drawings of building frames and bold text, offering a comprehensive look at framing construction.

Graphic Guide to Frame Construction

 - $57.00
LAP’s “With the Grain: A Craftsmans Guide to Understanding Wood” is a hardcover book with a dark cover and white tree illustration, offering furniture-making wisdom for working with North American wood species.

With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood

 - $54.00
Book cover for Learn to Timber Frame: Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty by Ingram Content Group features timber framing photography, highlighted text on craftsmanship, and a cabin plans badge—an ideal woodworking guide for beginners.

Learn to Timber Frame: Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty

 - $29.00
Cover of "Hand Hewn: The Traditions, Tools, and Enduring Beauty of Timber Framing" by Ingram Content Group shows a timber-framed interior with exposed beams and windows, highlighting traditional building methods.

Hand Hewn: The Traditions, Tools, and Enduring Beauty of Timber Framing

 - $54.00
A hardcover copy of LAPs The Essential Woodworker rests on a white background, its cover displaying line illustrations of woodworking joints—ideal for enthusiasts of hand-tool woodworking and traditional methods.

The Essential Woodworker

 - $49.00
Sharpen This, a hardcover book by LAP, provides practical sharpening advice to improve your woodworking results. The black cover features white line illustrations of tools.

Sharpen This

 - $30.00
A black and white illustration of a tree trunk cross-section with growth rings. Below, red and black text reads: Cut & Dried - A Woodworkers Guide to Timber Technology by LAP.

Cut & Dried - A Woodworker's Guide to Timber Technology

 - $102.00
Cover of Build a Classic Timber Framed House by Ingram Content Group, featuring people on a timber house frame under construction, with a completed traditional home in the background.

Build a Classic Timber Framed House

 - $32.00
A hardcover copy of LAPs The Anarchists Workbench rests closed on a white surface, its black cover displaying a white line drawing of a workbench that showcases traditional joinery and minimalist woodworking design.

The Anarchist's Workbench

 - $54.00
Cover of "Slöjd in Wood" by LAP, featuring Jögge Sundqvist's exquisite woodworking tools and beautifully crafted wooden spoons against a rustic wooden backdrop.

Slöjd in Wood

 - $59.00
Kitchen Think: A Guide to Design and Construction, From Refurbishing to Renovation by LAP—an essential read for kitchen design inspiration and remodeling ideas—features a cover with wooden cabinets on a white surface.

Kitchen Think: A Guide to Design and Construction, From Refurbishing to Renovation

 - $60.00
Joiners Work by LAP rests on a white surface. Its cover displays intricate 17th-century woodworking designs, the title in a yellow rectangle, and the brand name at the bottom.

Joiner's Work

 - $78.00
The LAP "Country Woodcraft: Then & Now" features a blue book cover with a graph-like cutout design and a stylized horse silhouette, ideal for hand-tool woodworkers.

Country Woodcraft: Then & Now

 - $77.00
A black hardcover The Anarchists Design Book: Expanded Edition by LAP features a large, elegant silver cursive A centered on the front—an homage to its modern influence in furniture design and woodworking. Photographed on white.

The Anarchist's Design Book: Expanded Edition

 - $78.00
A red hardcover book titled Workshop Wound Care by LAP, focused on first aid for woodworkers and featuring a white medical cross and caduceus symbol, lies on a white surface. The authors name appears in white text on the cover.

Workshop Wound Care

 - $37.00
The Stick Chair Book" by LAP has a red cover showcasing a white silhouette of a wooden chair.

The Stick Chair Book

 - $71.00
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