Fine Woodworking Best Tips on Finishing, Sharpening, Gluing, Storage, and More

The title over states the content. This is some of Fine WoodWorking Magazines recently published good tips. It's not a complete list, nor do I believe it's their most useful tips. To really have all the "Best Tips", you would need all FWW magazines from day one, and most of the Taunton Press woodworking books. It does make for some good casual reading, but I get much more use out of the FWW online subscription, with article searches.

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This is an excellent compilation of the tips found in the Fine Woodworking magazines. It's very well illustrated on quality paper and has many great tips that, even if you've seen them before, have probably forgotten.Highly recommended.

Extremely interesting and worthwhile information for woodworkers!

I consider myself a low-intermediate woodworker (sadly, I spend more time reading about WW than **doing**...), and I found a **lot** of tips that I found downright clever -- and ones that I hadn't yet seen in the "Tips" sections of woodworking magazines over the years.The structure of the book makes sense, reflecting the flow of a project: you set up your shop, store your gear, sharpen your tools, cut your wood, assemble the piece, and apply the finish. Thus, the chapters are "Shop Helpers", "Shop Storage", "Sharpening", "Milling Lumber", "Joinery", "Surface Prep", "Gluing and Clamping", "Finishing", and "Furniture Construction". The sections within each chapter made sense as well: for example, the "Shop Storage" chapter had sections on "Clamp storage", "Lumber racks", and "Tool storage".The book has (for example) a lot of clever sawhorse designs, ways to modify your workbench (including the face vice), clamping tips... and more.BUT -- it also has a handful of "Duh!" tips. These would be useful to bare novices -- but anyone who has read a "How to Do Woodworking" book (or been reading woodworking magazines for a few months) **should** already know (or be able to figure out).For example: when sharpening, start with a coarse grit and work your way up! (p. 103); when sharpening something cylindrical (like an awl), hold the tip to the grindstone while rolling it between your fingers! (p. 109); when milling a log slab with uneven edges, use a chalkline (snapline) to define a straight line, then saw to the line! (p. 121);There are also tips that might be new to people who don't use hand tools -- but hand tool users would think are painfully obvious. For example: it's good to flatten the backs of your chisels (p. 101); using a store-bought sharpening jig helps you sharpen at a consistent angle (p. 103).And yet, there are highly clever tips, as well -- such as the workbench mods I mentioned above, some sanding tips on p. 171 and 173, and etc.Now that I've read it (and taken notes!), I'm not going to buy it immediately: too many other books to buy. But it'll be in my personal WW library one of these days. If you belong to a woodworking club, buy it and put it of the club's "library" shelf.I'm a hand-tool woodworker, but I think both power tool and handtool woodworkers would benefit from this book. The "Storage" and "Finishing" chapters apply to all woodworkers.Totally worth reading.--GG

Excellent item, as described, prompt post

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