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   John_D | Apr 10, 2006 09:15pm | #1

   My sons have all taken woodshop courses, and none had textbooks.  If you get no responses, it may not be out of disinterest!

   If you're interested in teaching Western-style joinery and techniques with Western-style tools, many people here can tell you the best books on various topics.

   Good luck, it's always great to hear from someone dedicated to teaching woodworking to the next generation.

   My goal is for my work to outlast me.  Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.
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   MBerger | Apr 10, 2006 11:22pm | #2

   Hi Yamamoto,

   Nice to see you in Knots. If you remember, I wrote the article about your woodwork for the magazine.

   It is true, there are very few woodworking textbooks. However, I think the three-book series by Tage Frid would be very useful for teaching, or at least creating a class curriculum. It covers all the basic and advanced woodworking techniques.

   Matt Berger
   Fine Woodworking

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   Yamamoto | Apr 11, 2006 06:04am | #5

   Thank you for the comment kindly.Forgive it though it isn't transmitted well because it is poor at English.It was surprised that there was no textbook.It knew that each teacher devised a class so that any country might be the same.M.Berger is long-awaited. (^_^)/It appreciates it with the former article.

   The book of TageFrid has me, too.It is the book which is very excellent for the advanced person.Besides, many technological books were bought from TauntonP.As a general explanatory material, "WOODWORHING" =AlbertJ./Davidd./simonJ.=KNOPF= : It thinks that is excellent.I want to make the book which is suitable for a such university student's and adult's taste.

   Thank you. everyone.My homepage http://ed-www.ed.okayama-u.ac.jp/~bijutu/yama/index.html

    

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   joinerswork | Apr 11, 2006 04:12pm | #6

   Mr Yamamoto,

   Have you seen "Cabinetmaking and Millwork", by Feirer?  My copy, from 1967, is outdated, but provides the sort of information that a teacher would have needed then.  Perhaps there is a more modern edition?

   Best wishes,

   Ray Pine

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   Biscardi | Apr 12, 2006 07:29am | #7

   Sir,

   I have been greatly influenced by several books:

   1) A Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director by Thomas Chippendale

   (Very advanced, teaches proportion and design)

   2) How to Design and Construct Period Furniture by Franklin Gottshall

   (Very good for begginers with good scale drawings, basic joinery)

   3) Building Period Furniture (Taunton Press)

   I think I learned the most in the shortest time from a very kind, old man who was a great craftsman.

   I hope this helps.

   Best wishes,

   Frank Biscardi

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   Adrian | Apr 12, 2006 02:20pm | #8

   Feirer's book used to be a standard, but it is now out of print and I'm told will not be reprinted. It is somewhat dated. He has another one called "Wood Technology and Processes" that might be suitable for high school.

   I use "Modern Cabinetmaking" by William Umstattd (Goodheart Wilcox) as a basic text, and also three texts from the furniture and wood department at Univ. of North Carolina....also dated, but pretty good on basic industrial woodworking, machinery, and processes. Also "Understanding Wood" by Hoadley and "Understanding Wood Finishing" by Flexner. I also use a lot of articles and chapters excerpted from other sources, and powerpoints I have prepared myself. At the college level, there is no perfect one source text for modern woodworking.Cabinetmaker/college woodworking instructor. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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   jazzdogg | Apr 11, 2006 04:23am | #3

   Yamamoto-San,

   At Palomar College, we do not use textbooks in the woodworking program - although the woodworking deparment does maintain its own library.

   http://www.palomar.edu/woodworking

   Instead, we provide students with copies of relevant magazine articles.

   In addition to the Books authored by Tage Frid, I will also recommend:

   Ernest Joyce's Encyclopedia of Furniture

   R. Bruce Hoadley's Understanding Wood

   I have several hundred woodworking books in my personal library, of which few are detailed yet succinct, and well-rounded enough to qualify as a basic woodworking text, although several of them are excellent special-purpose books.

   Good luck,

    

   -Jazzdogg-

   "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Gil Bailie

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   try50772 | Apr 11, 2006 04:45am | #4

   Traditional Textbooks from woodworking in the US would come from either goodheart wilcox http://www.goodheartwillcox.com/or prentice hall
   http://phcatalog.pearson.com/subject_area_listing.cfm?site_id=6&discipline_id=812
   and Glencoe
   http://www.glencoe.com/sites/pennsylvania/teacher/trade_ind_edu/index.html They are the typical Vocational Textbook sources in the US,
   Good Luck

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   withthegrain | Apr 12, 2006 06:13pm | #9

   Yamamoto,

   The text book used in our High School is:

   Modern Cabinetmaking

   by: Wiliam D. Umstattd, Charles W. Davis

   Publisher: The Goodheart-Willcox Company Inc.

   ISBN 1-56637-503-7