UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Modern Cabinet Work by Percy A. Wells and John Hooper
Oct 25, 2009
Modern Cabinet Work: Reprint of a Rare 1922 Classic: A Comprehensive Treatise on Making Fine Furniture from the Golden Age of Craftsmanship
Fox Chapel Publishing, 2006.
$26.95; 464 pp.
Here’s another book we received from the publisher and we’re giving you an opportunity to win a copy. Leave a comment here for your chance to win.
Known as the “cabinet maker’s bible”, Modern Cabinet Work: Reprint of a Rare 1922 Classic: A Comprehensive Treatise on Making Fine Furniture from the Golden Age of Craftsmanship
Lucky butchf18a is this week’s winner. His comment was chosen at random.
Stay tuned for more giveaways.
Comments
Sounds like a great book to have!
I just love reprints of older woodworking texts. I guess it dates me but they always present methods close to my way of working (grin). Would love to have a copy.
Cheers --- Larry
the sub-title says it all - A Comprehensive Treatise on Making Fine Furniture from the Golden Age of Craftsmanship
Yes, I'd like to have it.
,,,,,,,,,,,Chet
I'm in
Sounds good, count me in.
I'd love a copy of this book
Count me in,,,
Just so happens I have a kitchen to gut and re-do. Timely.
Yes, please.
Would love a cabinet making book!
sounds interesting 1908 .I'D LIKE ONE
I Don't win ever. Mabe this will will work for me. I would like to have the book.
Books are good for the learning.
I dont think I have ever won anything. Theres always a first time!
Got to be a good book if a Hooper was involved in it's content. Maybe we are related in some way.
R.R. Hooper
Could use this one
This sounds like a good read and reference.
I'm learning and I'll takes all the tips, and books I can.
As much as I love innovation, it's important to remember the foundational things - I'd love this book in my library!
This would be a sweet book to start this aspiring cabinet maker's library off with....
This would be great to have. I really want to learn more about this.
yup
What a book! Would love to get a copy.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon from "Of Studies".
Looks good! I'd love to have a copy.
I would really appreciate a copy of this book for my library. It can join Ernest Joyce's book which I refer to often.
Gary
I just found your web site. Thought I would let you that I enjoy what I've seen so far. Look forward to returning here often. I'm always looking for info to add to my library. Would love to add this one!
Looks like just the book I need!
I am convinced that the 18th and 19th craftsmen had methods, secret techniques, and ways of producing furniture better and quicker than the present craftsman using only hand tools available to the original craftsmen, Maybe I can gleen some of these form this book. Wish me luck. wmalcolmg
I thik the secret that 18th and 19th century woodworkers had was no intarweb to consume their time. :)
sounds like a great book
sounds like a great book
This sounds like a book I could really use as I don't have a lot of power tools and need some help on a bookcase I am building
I'd like a copy.
Etching my name in the cabinet door, as well....
I would like to have a copy of this book.
Sounds very interesting.
I could definitely use this book. The furniture I carved from the sandstone in my cave is starting to wear. Plus, the "sofa" is really cold in the winter. ;-)
I would love to add this book to my Library!
Larry
This would be a great addition to my library here in New Zealand
This would be a great addition to my library here in New Zealand
This would be a great addition to my library here in New Zealand
I think it would be very interesting to compare the techniques in this 1908 book to all the modern publications in the market place today.
FWW,
I'd love to have a chance to broaden my fledgling knowledge of cabinetmaking. I think this book would go along way toward that.
As far as reviews of this book are concerned, I think it would be very helpful to read a review from an expert, but also from someone like me who is still sorting it all out, making mistakes a-plenty, but learning a great deal in the process (and having a great time).
FWW and Knots forum have been excellent to me as someone new to woodworking. Keep up the great work.
jonnieboy
so love to win this
Book Me Danno
hey there,
it would be great to win a copy of this book,
Eoin
This would be a perfect addition to our woodworking library!
My husband will love this-thanks!
My husband is a retired contractor, woodworker, but loves to build, he would enjoy this.
Looks like a neat book. Pick me :)
This lovely book would take away all my excuses for procrastinating on my open corner cabinet, my new entryway closet&bootrack, my 30'-long over-the-windows bookshelf. I'd devour it the first weekend!
I'd really love to win this - I can always learn something useful from an old woodworking book.
Looks like a great book to own.
If I had this book maybe it wouldn't have taken me 2 years to finish the cabinets in my kitchen. I still have the table and chairs to make, so this book would be great to have and maybe it won't take me another 2 years to complete this project.
I have a couple of other comprehensive books on cabinetmaking. It would be interesting to compare this one with those books.
I could use a book to elevate my abilities.
Sound good to me!
I love woodworking and like to study and try the old techniques I usually find in books of this type. Eventhough woodworking today is done much faster, I get a good sense of accomplishment by doing things the way it use to be done.
Like clamps, you cannot have too many woodworking books!
Perspective is an important element of any woodworking project. Often, it suits me to gain perspective on a new project (or an unforseen challenge of an on-going project), by exploring multiple views and techniques of other woodworkers and problem-solvers. From this information, I usually morph two or three ideas into the best solution for my project, my knowledge and the tools at my disposal. The end result is pleasing and inspires me to continue to learn. My library is yearning for this book!
An inspirational saying: You might have to learn by doing in order to maximize the talents you have. Solutions come during the process, not the plan.
Safe & happy woodworking!
Cindy
A book on craftsmanship from the era of great craftsmanship would be a great addition to the woodworking library.
A book of this quality whould be a fine addition to someone's wookworking bookshelf.
As a new woodworker, I have been buying equipment and learning new techniques, starting with pen turning, and then via Woodcraft classes, making a plane, a bow saw, a band saw box, and the like. I'm working on a new piece for my granddaughter. The Taunton books and Fine Woodworking videos and how-to books have been enormously useful. Hope I win another good book!
I learned a lot from old woodworking books, a lot of that old information is priceless,it shouldbe a good if i don't win it i will probable buy it
I am relatively new to woodworking and am always looking for a good book to build my knowledge.
I've read some really good books about the craft and a few real stinkers. Actually I quit somewhere in the middle of the stinkers. One thing I like about the "heritage books" is the sense of the age in which they were written. 1908 or even 1922 is a long time in terms of the changes in the tools we use, the products we have to help us and unfortunately, the wood we have to work with. With the history lesson comes some appreciation.
love to win a copy. Sounds like a great Book.
There is/was nothing like relaxing on a fall Saturday morning
in front of the TV watching Norm Abram in his workshop. What a true inspiration!
That was a great time when this book was written. The material knowledge would be an encyclopedic treasure trove.
Since the art of woodworking has been handed down for centuries, a book on furniture making from 1908 is just part of the natural evolution of the art.
Since the art of woodworking has been handed down for centuries, a book on furniture making from 1908 is just part of the natural evolution of the art.
I remember my Grandfather talking about building furniture. He said they did it without a tablesaw, or power mortising tool, or a router or anything with a power cord. Do you believe that? I would love to have this book, just to show how my Grandpa really did it. Sounds like those folks had some skills that are lost today.
I have been studying and building furniture and cabinets for over 35 years. I am continuously adding to my library of woodworking information all this time. Now I am passing on some of my learning to my daughter, from hand tools to power tools. This book would be a great addition for both us.
Some things just never go out of style.
I would like to read a "comprehensive treatise" on cabinet making - When I don't win it, I think I'll buy a copy. Besides, I'll need to make a new cabinet to house my ever growing collection of Taunton books!
The insights this book could offer into the techniques and designs of furniture making from the beginning of the 20th century would be fantastic. It sounds like an amazing book.
Matt
I think I saw this in the stores the very first time around, but I was in knickers then. I'm ready to give it another try and would appreciate if all the other entrants would withdraw -)
I would love to win this book. If this doesn't happen I will buy a copy. FWW has the best articles of any of the publications that I subscribe to. I have to thank Norm for re-kindling a love in me for fine wood working like the fondness my father has and his father had.
Thanks To Norm. I will still watch all his repeats over and over.
Love woodworking, would really like to win a copy of the book.
It is a good privilege to be able to return to the studies and works of those who really lived the work of the cabinetmaker; the craft will never have the gravity on man's direction as it once did. We can learn dear lessons born from a generation which had to make it work, and work right. It was the best they had to offer and the sustenance for life. In a couple words, devotion and integrity in their effort given each and every working day.
There is a freshness I find when visiting the thoughts of an early generation, especially in America, but also found elsewhere. I find a core which seeks fairness through integrity and principled learning/training. A rationale for action, not just money, either. Moreso, I find a strong belief in striving to find a better world for each and every man via good work. Cabinetry is a wonderful place to pursue great social changes. Let us never fear to return to our roots, and help us learn significance from those who have gone before us.
The idea of asking people to write a comment to win something is bad. It dilutes the real interesting comments into a list of useless mumbles.
We've been stalling on the kitchen reno because of the cabinetry execution. this would be a good book to kick start us.
Alexandra
Considering where my skill level is supposed to be going next..., I'd love to have this book as a head start.
Looking forward to a chance to read it....
My husband would really enjoy this. He likes to make furniture and he prides himself on solid craftsmanship.
whoa, close to the deadline. There is always something to learn, often the best methods are those tried and true ones that have stood the test of time, as I'm sure this book illustrates. Would love to add this to my library.
Hello editors, are you only counting entries made according to Eastern Standard Time? Out here on the west coast I posted at 11:05pm yet it shows as 2:05am, your entry instructions don't specify.
We just moved into a new house and this would be a great project.
My son tore out his kitchen cabinets and I hope I can win this for him so he can get some good ideas:)
Don't know if the book has been given away yet or not, but I would love a copy!
If I don't win,I'll probably buy it!
I think this book would help someone like me that is just considering woodworking in a business sense.
Hope I win this book..have a new kitchen to build.... ; )
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