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   GRW | Mar 16, 2008 03:08pm | #1

   Thanks. I book marked it. Looks like a long read.

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   [email protected] | Mar 16, 2008 06:34pm | #2

   It is nearly 500 pages long, but it is broken into chapters on specific topics, such as drying, or gluing. 

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   JamesS | Mar 17, 2008 08:00am | #3

   Jigs: Thanks or the info. Excellant!

   James

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   frenchy | Mar 17, 2008 08:13pm | #4

   Jigs-n-fixtures

     Don't buy it! It's $125.00 I'll sell my copy though if anyone is interested.

     By the way it was worth it.  When I walked into the building inspectors office with it there wasn't a single question he had that I didn't rapidly have not only the answer but data to back it up.  A couple of easy questions and he signed off on everything..

     I built my house so radically differant than anything else has ever been built before and he didn't have a single objection or problem.. Without it I would have been forced to spend thousands getting engineering drawings and opinions.

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   [email protected] | Mar 18, 2008 02:55am | #5

   Frenchy, the link takes you to the Forest Products Website and downloads the pdf version for free. 

   Admittedly if you have a slow connection it would take hours to download, but you can also download on chapter at a time, and save it to your hard drive. 

   There is some slimeball who is selling it on cdrom, on ebay.   Which is part of why I posted the link. 

   The Forest Products Lab's website has quite a few other good publications, and for me their research is kind of fun reading.  Not sure what exactly why I would ever build a bucky dome out of logs for, but it was kind of fun to read about. 

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   frenchy | Mar 18, 2008 06:10am | #7

   Jigs-n-fixtures,

     I bought mine because I needed to have something in hand when I walked in for the building permit.. As I said it was oney well spent..

    now with lap tops instantly connected to the net It might be possible but that wasn't available back then..

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 18, 2008 04:38am | #6

   $125?  It's $30 at Lee Valley.Chris @ flairwoodworks

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   frenchy | Mar 18, 2008 06:20am | #8

   flairwoodworks.

       Please don't tell me that.. please?   

   I got the library of congress number,  called the publisher, and ordered it from them.. After going all over town seeking it out.  It was $125. plus shipping.. They wouldn't take a credit card, certified check only. They shipped it when the certified cleared their bank..  grumble grumble. 

      I think the OX cart they sent it by must have had several broken wheels that they needed to wait while trees grew from seedlings  to large enough to make into OX cart wheels..  <grin>IT was well over two weeks in coming..

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 18, 2008 06:59am | #9

   Whoops... Sorry...

   This just in... due to sudden strong demand, the price of the book has just been raised to $849.50 and is subject to additional shipping costs due to the excessive weight.  Now back to you...Chris @ flairwoodworks

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   notatexan | Mar 18, 2008 07:39pm | #10

   I was in the local used book store last week making my usual rounds and saw a book with the title "Wood, something, something" (I don't remember)  It was about 2" thick, large, and had 100's of pages of color plates (plain sawn, quarter sawn, end grain) of different woods.  There were two of them on the shelf and the only reason I didn't jump was the $40 price. 

   Maybe I'll buy one anyway.  It would go great with the "Trees of North America" I bought there last year.  Saw the engineering book there also.

   Jim

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   [email protected] | Mar 18, 2008 07:56pm | #11

   If it is, "The Wood Book", published by Taschen it is great. 

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   RickL | Mar 19, 2008 12:18am | #12

   Author is Forest Products Laboratory Title is Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material

   The Wood Book published by Taschen is something else.

   http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/search/result.1.htm?show_all=Web+Shop&search_string=the+wood+book&linkbutton=Search

   I got my copy as a hardcover remainder for a few bucks. I can stilll find it for under $10 here and there. It's pretty outdated in some respects. Be nice if they updated the jointery section. Last I looked at the web it was pretty much like the book. Nothing on Biscuits, loose tenons. Hoadleys books make it more complete.