Fine Homebuilding Tricks of the Trades: Building Methods and Materials: Building Methods and Materials

Back by popular demand, these classic woodworking titles from Fine Woodworking magazine are filled with first-rate information that is as timeless now as it was when first published.

A new idea can be even more useful than a new tool. In fact, as you’ll see in this book, a new idea is a new tool. Whether you’re a homeowner or an experienced contractor, you’re sure to find tools in this book you can use today and every day.

The tips here are practical solutions developed and tested on actual job sites by experienced builders. You’ll find better methods to accomplish your building and remodeling tasks and improved ways to use the materials that go into your projects. These tips are collected from Fine Homebuilding magazine’s most popular columns–Tips & Techniques and Q & A–and are reprinted here for the first time.

The items in this book are easy and inexpensive ways to improve efficiency and accuracy. They’ll help make your work more pleasurable and more reliable. You’ll be amazed at their simplicity and awestruck by their applications. And you’ll wonder how you survived for so long without some of them.