Book Reviews
Once upon a time, the way you learned woodworking was to apprentice yourself to a master furniture maker, or wood turner, or builder, etc. While this is perhaps the best way to learn the craft, it is difficult for most of us amateur woodworkers to do so. It kind of gets in the way of making a living. Of course, if you make a living at woodworking, more power to you - for the rest of us, we learn an awful lot through books.
Some books are powerful master craftsmen in their own right and able to teach us much. Some books are barely able to put enough sentences together to be worth the paper they are printed on. The reviews here are intended to help sort the good from the bad. Of course, these reviews are only my opinion and the book I find to be abysmal, you may think is the best woodworking book you have ever read. Oh well, that's just the way it works.
This list of books is somewhat self-directed towards the better books. I have only reviewed books that I have read and/or that I own. I always check other reviews before I buy a book, so usually I wind up with good books. Sometimes, though, a clinker comes through. To find out which is which, read on ...
The Books
(click the book title for the review)