Collins complete woodworker's manual

Tight, clean, and unmarked-" This is a great book. It covers tools, techniques, types of woods, finishes standard dimensions for shelves, tables, etc. It contains color pictures, for those things that require color pictures, and for the rest, it uses monochrome drawings. It also has quick references, in the upper left corner of the page, pointing to other sections of the book for more info. All and all, a great book."-NP- Are you picking up woodworking tools for the first time, or are you, like me, going back to something which I have always loved but until now, never had the time to explore in-depth? If your answer to either of the above is, 'yes, then buy this book, a real gem which provides an absolute shed load of information about woodworking, from knowing how the material you are about to transform is grown, cut and treated, to the selection of tools and what they do, right through to making your own masterpiece. You can go out and buy many, many volumes, all of which will touch on parts of this, probably, (hopefully), in more depth but for sheer grounding in this fascinating pastime, hobby or occupation, you need this book."-Petrovitch -Reading Ribbon and DJ is taped to book