| DVD # & Title |
DVD Description |
DVD 01
50 Woodworking Tips |
With engaging, accurate instruction, woodworkers of any skill level can improve their craft and get more out of time spent in the wood shop. 50 Tips on DVD, is 2 volumes of four hours of up-close, step-by-step guidance through techniques you’ll need for a variety of woodworking projects. The 50 tips are logically organized and easy to find. |
DVD 02
Advanced-Mastering Mitre Saw |
The miter saw is one of the most important and most often used tools for carpenters of all types, yet no book or video has been devoted to its use-until now. Whether you are a beginner or an accomplished craftsperson, you need up-to-date information and advice on materials, tools, and techniques that will make your work more efficient, more profitable, and more enjoyable. In these two programs, Gary Katz demonstrates his expert approach to: * Developing a clear and comprehensive cutlist * Using extension wings for accurate measurements and precise repetitive cuts * Sizing casing for doors and windows, and shaving miters for a tight fit * Working with an auxiliary fence to cut baseboard miters, butts, and self-returns * Cutting crown and baseboard in position and on-the-flat * Using a Bosch angle finder to find miter and bevel angles * Cutting acute angles Plus: Safety Tutorial, detailing the latest equipment and techniques Making a Miter Saw Workstation, including measured drawings History of Moldings: an overview of historic styles A Guide to Sawblades, so you can choose the right one for your saw A Comprehensive Crown Chart, and how to use it. |
DVD 03
Basic Box Making |
The Basic Box Making DVD is perfect for beginning woodworkers interested in gaining skills, experimenting with design, and feeling satisfaction at a project that can be completed without the time and expense commitment of a bigger project. This DVD will offer basic designs, as well as many variations to teach different woodworking techniques while the audience learns to create a practical item or a gift that will become an heirloom. While this DVD will be enjoyed by beginners, it will also be great for any woodworker interested in small projects that can be done in a weekend with wood leftover from another project. |
DVD 04
Biscuit Joinery |
Using skills learned from over 30 years as a professional cabinet maker, Frank Klausz brings you shop-proven advice and instruction to help you turn out handsome bookcases and cabinets using biscuit joinery. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work?the tools, the techniques, and timesaving tricks that can help you work efficiently. Frank takes you step-by-step from start to finish, demonstrating each process in detail. You will learn how to:
- Plan wall units
- Design drawers, doors, and shelves
- Choose the right kind of plywood
- Cut sheetgoods on the tablesaw
- Make a simple biscuit joinery fence
- Use knockdown hardware
- Edge plywood
- Glue and assemble a bookcase
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DVD 05
Carving Techniques |
Now you can acquire the satisfying skill of carving wood. In this tape you'll discover the basics of woodcarving, see how to carve an 18th-century scallop shell and gain an understanding of the production techniques of that era. You will learn about:
- designing for letter carving
- selecting and sharpening carving tools
- carving roman and italic letters
- relief carving
- outlining
- molding (bordering)
- backgrounding
- modeling and contouring
- defining the wings
- carving the convex and concave rays
- finishing the shell
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DVD 06
Dovetail a Drawer |
If it's properly fitting drawers you're after, this is the video workshop for you. Professional cabinetmaker Frank Klausz cuts quick, precise dovetails without jigs or templates, then glues up and fits the finished drawer. You will learn about:
- dovetail drawer anatomy
- transferring dimensions from the scale drawing to a full-scale "story-pole"
- choosing lumber
- marking out, ripping and crosscutting drawer parts
- marking out the dovetails and pins
- hand sawing the pins and tails and chopping out the waste
- gluing up
- applying finishing touches with a smooth plane
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DVD 07
Frame & Panel Construction |
Frame-and-panel construction is a fundamental strategy in woodwork, because it can accommodate woods inevitable seasonal expansion and shrinkage.
In this DVD, Graham Blackburn tackles the basic frame. He explains the functions and design opportunities of stiles, rails, and muntins and shows you how to combine them into a frame. He also shows you how to think out the proportions of the frame parts and their relation to the panel they contain.
Working with both classic hand tools and common woodworking machines, Blackburn joins his frame members with mortises and haunched tenons. He shows you how to get a perfect match between the mortises and the grooves that take the panel, and also demonstrates drawboring -- a traditional method of making tight joints in a frame, without glue.
Blackburn discusses the benefits of various shapes to make your panel -- wider versus taller -- and orientation of the grain. He demonstrates how to feather, rabbet or raise the panel; and he shows you the merits of different design possibilities such as double-fielded panels, centrally beaded or reeded panels, carved and even painted panels. |
DVD 08
Grinding & Sharpening |
Now you can look over the shoulder of old world professional carver and teacher Wolfgang Korotkow as he demonstrates the proper techniques for sharpening workshop edge tools. Clear close-up video shows step-by-step procedures for acheiving the sharp edge that fine craftsmanship demands. Chapters include: Introduction to tools and sharpening equipment, sharpening carving tools, plane irons, chisels and knives, rebuilding a damaged edge and more. |
DVD 09
Hand Applied Finishes |
Simple tools and the correct techniques are all it takes to produce flawless finishes by hand. This DVD combines two videos: Hand-Applied Finishes: Coloring Wood and HandApplied Finishes: Applying Topcoats to offer a complete video guide to these time-tested techniques. You'll learn about:
- Preparing surfaces
- Using pore fillers
- Mixing stains
- Brushing on varnish
- Using pad laquer and shellac
- Applying French polish
- Rubbing out a finish
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DVD 10
Hand Tools |
Tuning chisels, planes and saws and learning how to use them properly can make your woodworking a hands-on pleasure. These tools can bring a refinement to your work that machines alone cannot produce. In this DVD you will learn how to:
- Sharpen a chisel within minutes
- Rehabilitate flea market tools
- Flatten the bottom of a plane
- Set and sharpen a handsaw
- Stand and hold a plane
- Pare accurately with a chisel
- Saw straight and smoothly
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DVD 11
Mastering Woodworking Machines |
Mark Duginske offers a master's insights into machine woodworking and some honest shortcuts that will help you in your own journey toward woodworking precision. You'll see how to do fast, elegant joinery with basic power tools (with no need for expensive gadgets) and how to achieve zero-frustration, complete-control woodworking with machines. You will learn about:
- "reading" lumber to avoid stock-preparation problems
- fine-tuning the table saw, bandsaw, drill press and radial-arm saw
- sawing beautifully fitting dovetails on the table saw
- making mortise-and-tenon joints on the drill press
- bandsawing bookmatched panels
- making an ingenious 50-cent device that ensures accuracy to within 0.002 in.
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DVD 12
Mastering Your Bandsaw |
Through his books and magazine articles and in seminars across the country, Mark Duginske has helped thousands of bandsaw owners tweak their wayward machines into precision tune. He will show you how to do that and more, including some really extraordinary handsaw tricks and techniques. Among the topics Duginske covers are:
- cutting cones
- making bandsawn boxes out of 2-in. thick stock
- resawing veneer 1/32 in. thick
- making perfect dovetails
- cutting tenons
- resawing boards from firewood
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DVD 13
Mastering Your Tablesaw |
If you make furniture, the table saw is one of the cornerstone machines in your shop. Kelly Mehler, who makes some of the most beautiful furniture in America, shows you how to get the best out of this essential tool. In this video, you'll learn the differences between table saws. You'll discover how to choose the right one for your working style, set it up right the first time and adjust it so that it runs safely and efficiently
Mehler demonstrates basic table-saw techniques, including crosscutting and ripping, and how to handle special situations such as oversized and undersized stock. He also shows you how to make woodworking joints with the table saw and how to build jigs and fixtures that will make your work on the table saw easier and more accurate. |
DVD 14
Mortise & Tenon Joints |
Woodworkers rely on the versatile mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools, tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines. You will learn about:
- laying out for handwork
- chiseling the mortises
- sawing the tenons
- laying out for router and handsaw
- routing the mortises
- bandsawing the tenons
- laying out for mortiser and table saw
- making a hollow-chisel mortiser
- working tenons on the table saw
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DVD 15
Router Jigs & Techniques |
Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity -- and creativity -- in the shop. In this video, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout subtle shapes.
This DVD shows you how to make spline edge joints with the router.
Instructions on routing mortises and tenons that fit.
How to rout sliding dovetail mortises and tenons
Tips on making a variety of useful jigs for the router.
There is also instructions on cutting to pattern, tapers, roundovers and much more. |
DVD 16
Router Joinery |
Routers can be used to cut a wide variety of joints quickly and accurately. In this video, professional woodworker Gary Rogowski demonstrates router joinery techniques that can be mastered by any woodworker. You'll learn why correct setup and good stock preparation are essential to accurate work, and you'll see how to cut common frame and carcase joints using a hand-held or table-mounted router. You'll see how to rout:
- rabbets, dadoes and grooves
- half-laps
- mortise-and-tenon joints
- loose-tenon joints
- half-blind and through dovetails
- sliding dovetails
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DVD 17
The Versatile Router |
Woodworkers of every skill level will find something useful in this DVE about the most versatile power tool in the shop. For router expert Pat Warner, the basic idea is to use the router as a "finishing" tool: do all your rough-cutting and hogging with other power tools, then remove the last 1/32 in. of wood with the router, in a clean, surgical stroke.
Warner shows you how to rout clean circles and holes; how to make half-lap joints at the ends of boards, and laps in the middle of boards that cross each other at any angle you choose. There's a section on the anatomy of a fixed-base router, another on the use of the collar guide for precise template work, and a lesson on getting two different shapes from the same decorative-profile bit.
Warner explains how to get the most out of your router. He shows you how to rout perfect dadoes and grooves, how to make through mortises without tearout, and how to set up and use the table-mounted router.
You'll also learn all about bearing-guided bits, how to rout sliding dovetails, and how to manage full-thickness cuts to make edge treatments like bullnoses. |
DVD 18
Wood Finishing |
Nothing completes a woodworking project like a beautiful, durable finish. In this tape, expert cabinetmaker Frank Klausz shows you how to choose the right finish and how to apply it. You will learn about:
- preparing the surface
- sharpening a scraper
- sanding
- stripping
- applying a tung-oil finish
- completing the finish
- oiling intricate pieces
- staining
- spray lacquering
- varnishing
- French polishing
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DVD 19
Wood Finishing & Repair |
From Behlen’s, one of the most respected brands in wood finishing, comes this complete interactive Finishing and Repair System DVD. It’s designed to teach you the most up to date wood finishing and repair techniques offered in the industry.
Featuring many Behlen products, the DVD covers instruction on: damage analysis; filling damaged areas; replacing color; grain replacement; spot finish application, sheen adjustment; scratch removal; finish care; and much more. |
DVD 20
Wood Finishing Basics |
In this DVD, finishing expert Michael Dresdner shows you what you need to know to become a proficient wood finisher, starting with classic surface-prep problems and their solutions -- how to recognize and remove dents, how to recognize and fill gouges, how to pre-raise wood grain to get the best results under waterborne finishes, and, most important, how to sand wood.
You'll learn how to apply a simple wax finish, shellac-and-wax, and a polyurethane with only a rag for a tool. It's a simple process: rag on your finish, wipe it off, let it dry, recoat. Youve got to see this to learn how little you have to do to get a classy, silky, surface thats ideal for most indoor furniture.
Next, Dresdner visits woodfinishing expert Chris Minick, who teaches you how to brush on a flawless polyurethane varnish finish.
Finally, Dresdner explains the simple principles of spray finishing and guides you through the potentially confusing landscape of modern spraying tools. You'll find out how to set up each type of spray equipment, how to adjust spray patterns, and how to apply all the major coatings to a variety of furniture types -- a chair, a tabletop, a bookcase -- and to a guitar. |
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