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Whether you are looking to experience the timeless fun of carving toys, animals, and even whirligigs or are interested in making your own furniture from measured drawings, Dover's woodworking books will get you started.
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 The Ship Model Builder’s Assistant
by Charles G. Davis
Invaluable guide offers detailed descriptions, drawings of masting, rigging, and major fittings of American clippers and packets. Also includes wealth of details on deck furniture. 279 line drawings.
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| |  Making Animated Whirligigs
by Anders S. Lunde
More than two dozen traditional and original models of the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs appear in this how-to manual. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.
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| |  Restoring Antique Furniture: A Complete Guide
by Richard A. Lyons
Profusely illustrated woodworking guide, brimming with expert tips and advice, covers proper care and use of tools, replacing lost hardware, strengthening fractured joints, and much more. Illustrations of restored furniture.
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| Products in Woodworking | | |  | Action Whirligigs: 25 Easy-to-Do Projects
by Anders S. Lunde
Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings for creating 25 charming little wind-driven toys — from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the Woman at the Computer to various weathervanes. For all levels of ability.
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|  | The Beginner’s Handbook of Woodcarving: With Project Patterns for Line Carving, Relief Carving, Carving in the Round, and Bird Carving
by Charles Beiderman, William Johnston
Detailed instructions, illustrations for carving animals, flowers, figures, more. Tips on tools, techniques, painting, finishing, exhibiting. Excellent for novices, veteran carvers.
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| |  | The Big Book of Whittling and Woodcarving
by E. J. Tangerman
Comprehensive handbook shows beginning and veteran woodcrafters how to create caricatures, rocking horse, hundreds of other items. Over 1,000 illustrations.
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|  | Birdhouses and Feeders
by G. Barquest, S. Craven, R. Ellarson
Clear illustrations and step-by-step instructions show how to build 30 homes and feeders for our feathered and furry friends. Includes structures for wrens, bluebirds, owls, robins, squirrels, titmice, more.
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|  | Boat-Building and Boating
by Daniel C. Beard
Construction and operation dos and don'ts for everything from simple rafts and birch-bark canoes to a small sailboat and a speedy motor-boat. 238 illustrations.
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|  | The Book of Wood Carving
by Charles Marshall Sayers
Finest book for beginners discusses fundamentals and offers 34 designs for panels, bookends, mirrors, and other projects.
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|  | Build Your Own Boat
by Percy W. Blandford
This clear, concise guide contains the essential information anyone is likely to need to build a seaworthy craft, using only two hands and the most basic tools. 73 photographs and line drawings.
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|  | Build Your Own Inexpensive Dollhouse
by E. J. Tangerman
Why spend a fortune? With 1 sheet of 4 x 8 plywood, home tools, and this book, you can build a 6-room, 36 x 13 x 26 dollhouse. No great skill needed.
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|  | The Built-Up Ship Model
by Charles G. Davis
A highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introducing serious model builders to hand-crafting ship models from the bottom up. Not for beginners. 133 illustrations.
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| |  | Carving Animal Caricatures
by Elma Waltner
Specific instructions for 24 caricatures with photos and sketches of each. 94 illustrations.
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|  | Carving Decorative Duck Decoys: With Full-Size Templates
by Harry V. Shourds, Anthony Hillman
16 templates and fully illustrated instructions aid even beginners to carve Gadwall, Cinnamon Teal, Sheldrake, Steller's Eider, and a dozen other exotic species. All decoys in color on covers.
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|  | Carving Duck Decoys
by Harry V. Shourds, Anthony Hillman
Detailed instructions and full-size templates for constructing 16 beautiful, marvelously practical decoys according to the time-honored South Jersey method.
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| | |  | Carving Tropical Birds
by Anthony Hillman
Complete instructions, patterns, and diagrams for creating the Gouldian finch, Fischer's love bird, Andean cock-of-the-rock, keel-billed toucan, and 8 other exotic avian creatures.
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| |  | Creative Bird Carving
by William I. Tawes
Easy-to-follow instructions for 7 different projects (including decoy duck, belted kingfisher, and great blue heron), plus expert advice on woods, tools, repairing blemishes, painting completed works, and more.
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|  | Easy Carpentry Projects for Children
by Jerome E. Leavitt
Teaches boys and girls age 7 and up basic carpentry skills through easy-to-make projects: bird feeder, sailboat, tie rack, flower box, and 11 more. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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