With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood Books - Shelter Institute
With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood Books - Shelter Institute
With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood Books - Shelter Institute

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

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Becksvoort's bridge between forestry science and the workbench.

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  • Understanding wood movement
  • Choosing and drying lumber
  • Craftsmen who ask why
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In stock at 873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579 · Usually ready in 24 hours

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

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873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579

Usually ready in 24 hours

873 U.S. 1
Woolwich ME 04579
United States

+12074427938

With the Grain by Christian Becksvoort is a 160-page hardcover from Lost Art Press on understanding wood: how trees grow, how to identify North American species, and how wood moves after it's cut.

Becksvoort bridges forestry and bench work. He shows how to calculate wood movement and design casework, drawers, doors and moulding around it, then covers managing a small woodlot, sawing and drying lumber, and working with solid wood. This third revised edition adds 10 species, among them tamarack, white spruce, Douglas fir, pecan and red maple.

Woodworkers John Hoffman and Christopher Schwarz founded Lost Art Press in 2007. Its books ship from a warehouse in Covington, Kentucky, and are printed in the United States.

  • Author: Christian Becksvoort
  • Edition: third, revised
  • Format: hardcover, green cotton cover, sewn; acid-free paper
  • Size: 8-1/2 x 11 in, 160 pages
  • Contents: trees and wood technology, identifying species, woodlot management and harvest, sawing and drying, working solid wood
  • Published by: Lost Art Press; printed in the USA

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