Furniture: Great Designs from Fine Woodworking: Great Designs from Fine Woodworking - Outstanding Projects from the World's Finest Craftsmen

Excellent wood work details

This book is beautiful, with lots of great designs and exploded pictures. To be clear, if you're venturing towards design and looking to expand your horizons, this is a great book. But to be clear, it's not a how-to guide, and I wasn't looking for one.

This book includes drawings and details of all the pieces used to build each piece. some more reach may be required on the how to achieve some of the details. Overall really like the book.

Don't expect a detailed cut list, but there are lots of plans and they have adequate information. The book is really nice, with good designs. I am happy that I bought it.Bear in mind that you can actually get the whole back catalogue of popular woodworking for double this price I'm usb format, which includes all designs here, butI love a book and it's nice to read.

Am a professional woodworker. I buy books like these to expand my knowledge base. There's always something new to add to what you already know, and books like these should do just that. but the material in this book on each project is so sparse as to barely hint on what's needed to do the project. True, I could go back into my voluminous back issues of Fine Woodworking collection and get the whole article, or consult the New Taunton cd rom that would do the same, but then the book is merely a project index. And I'm sure the Cd rom has that as an option. For someone with little experience at building ,it's not enough, and "old hats" at this won't get much for their buck. And as I said, most old hats have these pieces/articles in their magazine collections already. Ho Hum...

Like everything associated with Fine Woodworking, this book was neither inexpensive nor cheap. (I think I paid more than $20 for it ... Amazon currently has it listed for $15-ish, and it's a no-brainer at that price!) There's no fluff or fat here, no projects nobody in their right mind somebody would want in his or her home ... just photos and drawings of good-looking pieces.The other thing you won't find here is step-by-step instruction. Experienced woodworkers will find what they need to recreate these pieces, but the book does not hold your hand.