If you have invested in woodworking machines, you want and need to get the most out of them. In Mastering Woodworking Machines, Mark Duginske shows you how to choose, set up, and tune your machine for safety, precision, and efficiency. His common-sense techniques will help you avoid frustrating mistakes and put you in complete control of your woodworking projects.

Duginske?s systematic approach picks up where owner?s manuals leave off, and it applies to all brands and makes of machinery. You?ll also learn how to prepare stock effectively and how to produce the joints and cabinet parts you need without any expensive add-on jigs. Whatever you want to make in your shop, you?ll work more efficiently with Duginske at your elbow.

Through his books and magazine articles and in seminars across the country, Mark Duginske has helped thousands of bandsaw owners tweak their wayward machines into precision tune. He will show you how to do that and more, including some really extraordinary handsaw tricks and techniques.

Among the topics Duginske covers are:

• cutting cones
• making bandsawn boxes out of 2-in. thick stock
• resawing veneer 1/32 in. thick
• making perfect dovetails
• cutting tenons
• resawing boards from firewood

Nothing beats the video format for seeing just how an expert handles the bandsaw. Watching this video is like having Duginske himself in your shop, showing you the subtle nuances.

• "reading" lumber to avoid stock-preparation problems
• fine-tuning the table saw, bandsaw, drill press and radial-arm saw
• sawing beautifully fitting dovetails on the table saw
• making mortise-and-tenon joints on the drill press
• bandsawing bookmatched panels
• making an ingenious 50-cent device that ensures accuracy to within 0.002 in.

This chronological record clearly shows the revolution in furniture design that transpired in France at the turn of the century. The illustrations trace precisely the emergence of the art nouveau style in the 1890s, its high point between the 1900 Exposition Universelle and the 1903 Salons, its demise between 1905-1909, the return to period revivalism and the transitional art nouveau - art deco style of 1910-1912 with the proto - art deco style of the immediate pre-war years (1911-1914). Many examples of non-art nouveau works from the period are also included.

Hundreds of these superb contemporary illustrations include views of complete ensembles, groups and individual pieces with a selection of the original furniture sketches, many never before published. The works of hundreds of furniture designers, cabinetmakers, interior designers, architects and ensembliers who participated in the annual salons are also included
Price: $99.50

The objects presented are grouped into four section in line with the traditional forms of Indian art: sculpture, painting, the decorativee arts and textiles. Sculpture is divided chronologically according to stylistic periods from the Pree- and Proto-historic, Maurya, Shunga, and Early Andhra Periods to the Hoysala Period. The painting are subdivided in the same way, spanning Early Paitning to Company Painting and Folk and Villagee Painting. The decorative arts and textiles, dating mostly from 1650 to 1900, are grouped by medium: from metalwork and nephrite to glass, ivory and mother-of-pearl; and silk, wook, cotton, and embroideries respectively.
Price: $85.00

The kitchen is the social center of the home -- a place for eating, a place for working, and a place to organize everything from spices to your household finances. Because kitchens serve so many different needs, creating a new kitchen that not only works well but also lives well is a major challenge.

Featuring over 200 full-color photos, illustrations, and charts, Kitchens That Work is a guide that walks you through the process of building a new kitchen, from the initial planning through the many material and design choices made along the way to the actual construction process. Authors Martin and Richard Edic provide a series of models and exercises to help you understand how you use your kitchen, how to think in three dimensions, how to make important design and style decisions, and how to manage every step of the process to save money and time.

-- Maine Antiques Digest, Dec. 1997

Whether you are a hobbyist turning pro or an established professional woodworker, Martin Edic can help you prosper. Here is information to plan, start and run a successful woodworking business. Marketing expert and business writer Martin Edic describes the principles and practices needed to start-up a successful woodworking operation.

Edic's carefully researched guide examines numerous successful full-time and part-time operations including crafts, woodturning, specialty woodworking, furniture making, cabinetmaking and refinishing. He covers defining your products and customer base, financials, estimating and bidding, subcontracting, selling and more, and also includes checklists and a resource section, plus informative, real-world examples.

Here is a carefully planned marketing guide designed to help you achieve a steady flow of work and income. Martin Edic's guide applies basic techniques to the special needs of commercial woodworking. Edic explains how to think like a marketer: how to set realistic goals, develop strategic plans, create advertising, use direct mail techniques and benefit from trade and craft shows.

With Edic's approach, you'll sell your work with less effort and more profit.

"solid business and selling advice."

-- WoodenBoat Review, Nov/Dec '97 (circ. 107,405)