Wooden Boxes by Dennis Zongker
The Taunton Press, 2013.
$24.95; 325 pp.
Tool_box is the winner of this laterst giveaway.
Wooden Boxes by Dennis Zongker has instructions for building seven different boxes. And it has a lot more. You’ll learn about joinery, marquetry, carving, inlays and turning. The book is about boxes, but what you learn can also be used in furniture making. For example, when making the Playing Card Box, you’ll learn about:
how to make banding,
the window method of marquetry,
veneering
and box making
And that’s just one box. With each box design you’ll learn something different.
Lucky Tool_box is the winner. His comment was chosen at random.
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See Tool_box‘s review below.
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In one book it seems as though you have found all of the skills I want to try. Marquetry, inlay, better and more subtle joints, and turning. This will deffinately be on my Christmas list.
Another box book....yippee! Don't know why but I love boxes. I know it's not just me but they are fun to make and give as gifts especially to those you love. There can never be enough box books!
I love boxes also, I have a number of box books and no matter how many times I read them I never get tired of them.
Scotty
I would love to have this book to help me as a new woodworker.
This book provides a great starting point to learn the techniques of marquetry and inlay, for those woodworkers who have built furniture. Working on smaller woodworking projects, like boxes, allows the woodworker to be more adventurous with lower risk. This will be my approach as I learn to place inlays in the pieces that I build.
Congratulations on a fantastic approach to teaching some of the more intricate wood working skills.
Brand new, hot off the press! Previewed it and it does look impressive. So many creative talented people out there!
Simple entry form would be better.
Looking to refine my jointing skills. After a quick preview, this seems to be a great reference and skill building book.
Looks like a great box book.
I'd like to build one or two of those on the cover.
Would love to learn box making techniques.
Great looking book!
Would be great to have. I am currently trying to make boxes.
All the help I can get will be great
I have built several boxes but am always looking for new ideas and from what I see this book looks just like what I am looking for. Would be a nice Christmas present and also my birthday is Dec. 24 so could be a 2 for1!
Since I started making small boxes this would make a great addition
I like working on smaller projects, and boxes are really practical projects. I would enjoy reading this book.
I've got 7 or 8 books on box making - do I really need another one? - OF COURSE
I'm quite sure the kids would love to get some boxes
I'm in need of a book that has small projects. My Bride of many years keeps saying I should build smaller projects. A book on boxes would help me to down size on the projects.
Looking forward to the copy being sent to me.
Thank You
I need to learn how to make a proper box. Count me in
Looks like a fun read. Would be fun to have it on the shelf.
Looks like a nice book with some good skill-building projects.
I build a few boxes. This would help!
I like free stuff.
Allons-y!
I have some butternut from an old tree of my mother's. She is waiting for me to make her a keepsake from the wood and she is 95 years old. A box would be nice.
I'll make the box for John65's mom and save him the trouble.
My wife wants a small box to hold earrings. I am sure this book could help with the design as well as the execution! I need the help ... :)
That looks like a great book! I love to build boxes.
I have several elegant boxes on Christmas wish lists for next year. Looks like the timing is right for a good book on the subject
This box would make a great gift as well as a useful book to learn from
I don't have any books on box making. i'd love to have this one for my collection of woodworking books.
Sounds like a great read!
Throw my name in the hat! Looks like a great book chock full of techniques and ideas.
This looks like a book I would enjoy reading.
Boxes are intriguing. I admire the craftsmen who excel at box design/building
Love the boxes with the beautiful curves.
I am just starting to learn about inlay, and would love to build some wooden boxes to feature it on. I've got lots of small offcuts in my shop that would make excellent boxes. I'd love to have this book.
I'm a relatively new woodworker, and find boxes are great inexpensive ways to practice new skills!
Booya.
Looks like a great book!
I like the combination of methods used on the box on the cover.
This looks like a good book to learn some new skills.
I am currently making boxes, some with marquetry on the lid. Count me in.
Beautiful boxes make great gifts
Wow, what a selection of nice boxes. Way over the complexity of the boxes I have buildt.
That is incredible! I was already thinking about purchasing the book to help me with a jewelry box I promised my wife for 7 years now, but to find out I could win it (and return with a review of it) is awesome! Please consider my entry! Thanks!
Jay
What a great reference manual. I'd love to win it.
This looks like a great reference book to add to anyone's woodworking library.
I am a woodturner; also a box maker. And Like the ancient Buddhist saying: "Boxes are Difficult".
This book is on first glimpse out-of-my-league. I have a dedicated dovetail station at one of my benches where I can sit on the stool to saw, cut & chisel the joinery. My planes are always sharp as are my various saw blades but this book moves to higher ground.
Yes, I would love to add this to my library and I can see the odds are akin to the lottery but if you don't play you can't win. The best of luck to all.
Boxes are such a simple utilitarian object but can be graceful and artistic. I'm designing a box for an urn now and I'm struck by the broad applicability from something sacred to something simple such as a tee box. Both can be equally beautiful.
Looks like a great book with some information about more than run of the mill boxes.
I have seen this book and as an avid boxmaker I would LOVE to have a copy!
This would be an excellent book to start planning projects for next year!
It is always great to continue to learn. Glad authors are willing to share their knowledge.
Pick me! Pick me!
Thank you.
I live in a cardboard box, looking to build an upgrade.
I read books.
Just like previous comments, I hope I win it.
I was thinking about reading this book for ideas for the shop class that I teach.
Really enjoyed making my first and only box. Would really like to make more and expand my skills. Would love to own this book!
Thank you Dennis Zongker for passing your unselfish knowledge on to other woodworkers through you writing.
i really like books on box making this looks like it will be a good one
I will always read another book about box making!
I would love to add this to my collection.
I copy of this book would be greatly appreciated as I have not tried box making.
everything I enjoy in reading great book for price
I would love to have this book. This is good timing as I am starting to build boxes.
A box, a BOX! My Kingdom for a BOX book.
5 boxes to build, for each of my children. Then 1 box to rule them all, for my wife...
Looks like a great book and just what I have been looking for. good luck to all in the competition.
Making boxes for gifts and personal expression gives the greatest satisfaction. To get new ideas and increase my skills with this book would be great.
Would like to add this to my library
This is one "out of the box". Great stuff
A lot of extra techniques that would lead to neater boxes.
looking for a niche
Ready to start with some recently salvaged American chestnut.
Hy, Im from argentina, I need this book in my little shop,
Thanks a lot for woodworking community, we don't have nathing like this here,
I love boxes. This looks like a great book.
Would be a great book for new box ideas
This book would have been handy before I started my g'daughters jewerly box. But not too late for my next.
I'd love to get some instruction on how the pro's build boxes.
Sounds like a 'must-read' before I finish plans for the box I'm considering.
Looks like a great book! Many different techniques explained that can be used on a variety of boxes. Another great book on boxes.
This book would get me out of an embarrassing jam I am in. I have intended to make my wife a jewelery box for several years and I even bought some nice birds eye maple for the project but somehow I have never managed to get going on it. Right now my credibility is pretty low as far as building this box is concerned. I need help!!
I built a relatively simple walnut jewelry box for my wife early in our marriage. She now needs a larger box, and our daughter needs one, too. It's good that I just retired. I now have some time, and this book can give me fresh ideas.
I met Dennis last weekend and was able to see some of his work. Incredible ! !
Going shopping today for a table saw! It is all I asked Santa for Christmas :) -- would love to start making some of these beautiful boxes in the near future. Happy Holidays to everyone!!
Hi, I'm from Argentina I need it, here we don't have anything like that,
Thanks for all you at doing.
Love to give some nice detail to my boxies
I always love making boxes, I hope to be inspired to do more after this book.
I'm sure this book will help me improve my box making skills. I enjoy making boxes and I enjoy reading box books.
Very nice book. I will consider myself lucky to win this one... Happy Holidays
I have only made toy boxes. Maybe I should move up!
I'd like to try marquetry.
I would love to read and enjoy this book. Looks like a lot of good ideas.
I am redesigning a 3 tier presentation box and need all the inspiration and technique information I can get. Dennis's body of work is outstanding so yes please count me in.
Count me in...knowledge is power!
This book would be perfect! I"ve been needing to build a box for a while now and not sure which joints I need in 1/2" material and the right look. It is a gift to a very good friend who is batteling cancer right now.
As my age increases, I see the need to downsize my life, shop, expectations and projects I build. I want to move from large furniture to projects more box size. I would love to read and absorb this book.
This looks like a great book. I would love to learn more about marquetry and inlay work.
everyone enjoys making boxes ! Boxes are a type of project that completes fairly quickly, hones your woodworking skills and when gifted is a very desirable and usable gift!!
I just built my first box for my daughter-in-law. It's beautiful but simple. However, I look at all the elegant boxes and am curious how they're made. This book would be a great help.
I took a peek into this book in the library at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship this summer. What a neat book. Yes, I need a copy!
Looks like another great book for the shop
Looks like another great book by Taunton Press that would be great to have in my woodworking library.
Looks like a good book.
I would like a copy.
WOW! After viewing the sample pages, I was intrigued and inspired! It will certainly be a wonderful edition, and over time a wonderfully worn edition, to my go-to manuals.
I've just started getting into box making and adding inlay. I have a lot to learn and this book would certainly help me. Happy Holidays to all.
I would love to learn more and more from this book!.. and enjoy bringing to life a lot of good ideas!
Sounds like great book, having made many boxes but none of the complexity that these seem to be.
Just won a beer cooler in a draw last night so if good luck comes in threes this book will be number 2. Lots of hardwood offcuts available from my local cabinet maker and I need some cold weather projects,
Nice combination of art/design, skill and execution! I wood like to have a copy!
was just looking for ideas on box making and this looks more advanced than anything I've seen.
I was boxing my maple tree trying to think outside of the box when I decided this would be a great book to relax by a warm fire with on Boxing Day up here in Canada.
Looks like just the book for some like me new to box making. The variety is especially appealing.
Wish I could be as lucky as the person who won the beer cooler. Winning this book would be a close second!
Looks great
Beautiful boxes to make. The plans will be very useful.
Boxes seem to me to be like very small but fairly unforgiving pieces of furniture. My furniture has gotten better since I started building boxes in between projects.
would be a great one to have
Looks like a great book. I look forward to reading it, especially the sections on marquetry.
‘Twas 4 days before Christmas and just a peek a page 20,
Proved passed a doubt that I could learn plenty
From this book by Zongker and from Taunon Press
If sent in a twinkling to my home address.
If Zongker can teach as well as he makes the boxes shown, this will prove to be a very valuable book. I'd like to find out if it is!
LOVE MAKING BOXES TO THE POINT THAT I AM NOW TEACHING OTHERS IN CLASSES FOR MY GUILD. THIS BOOK HAS BEEN ON MY WANT LIST SINCE I SAW IT ADVERTISED. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
‘Twas 4 days before Christmas and just a peek a page 20,
Proved passed a doubt that I could learn plenty
From this book by Zongker and from Taunton Press
If sent in a twinkling to my home address.
There are never enough boxes, and never enough ideas on how to build boxes. It looks liken this book is adding to the existing collection in a very nice way.
Keep feeding the addiction...
I want this book!
I would like to win this book! All of the info you provide is great, Thanks!
I need to learn how to make boxes. My wife has a lifetime collection or rings, earrings, necklaces, and other do dads and she needs an attractive box or two or three to put them in. Guess who gets the job?
I have most of the other books on boxes, but this looks like the kind of advanced technique book I have been waiting for.
Yes, boxes are on the bucket list!
I've been looking for a book with some more advanced techniques for boxes. Looking forward to this one.
This sounds interesting. I'd love some guidance here.
I have made a number of boxes, so I am always interested in seeing some new designs. Would love to have this book to add to my collection.
Can't wait to read it.
I really want to see how to do the cameo inlay, it looks complicated. I am currently limited in the size of my projects. This book would fit right in, if I don't win it, I will buy it
Book looks like a real Zongker!
Thanks
Chuck
I love books with ideas for variety in boxes. I look forward to reading this one and putting it into practice.
I really enjoy FineWoodworking, especially the articles dealing with methods of work, among others, the Master classes and the information on the FineWoodworking Web site. I have been reading Finewoodworking since the very beginning when the magazine was i n Black and white. I have made a few boxes, but from one Canadian Working magazine plan. It would be interesting to have a good book on the subject.
looks like quite an interesting book!
I would love to try the inlays shown here-I already make a lot of bandsaw boxes
I just spent the last 2 week making finger joint boxes as gifts. It's really fun....but I'm ready to get back to building guitars ;-)
Looks like a great book!
I would love to win this!!!
As a novice woodworker I am always looking for ways to improve my skills. This book looks like a great next step for me.
Put me on the list for the drawing!
I love the challenge of building boxes...they never cease to test my skills as a woodworker!!!
I agree that it tests your skills. If I don't win it, I'll probably buy it. I enjoy learning in the process
What can be created with wood, always amazes me. Such intricate boxes...I look forward to trying my hand at it, and this book would be a great start!
What a great opportunity to think outside the Box!!!!
Always the best information. No matter the skill level, everyone gets something new every time from Fine Woodworking.
Add my name too! Always looking to up my skill level.
It looks like a great source of inspiration for may projects
Boxes are my thing...Any new ideas are always appreciated. I'm just getting into veneering and this book seems to fit the bill!
I love learning new ideas for making boxes. This looks like another great book to have!
I make boxes, but utilitarian ones only. As I am about to have considerably more shop time available, it is time to step up my game! Reading a book such as this one would be a wonderful way to begin.
Boxes are a great way to explore new ideas and practice new techniques. Count me in.
Building challenging boxes is a wonderful way to sharpen skills, and create great giveaways to friends and family. Having a new book with some new ideas would be a great addition to anyone's library. Sign me up!
The cardboard is getting old....time for a wooden box....
It looks to be a very detailed book covering both advanced and beginner techniques, I have several box making books and this will look great in my collection. I hope me living in Western Australia isn't a disadvantage to winning the book, HAVE A MERRY & SAFE CHRISTMAS TO ALL. EVO
I have built a wide variety of boxes and have a nice collection of books on building boxes, which I refer to often.. I am always looking for new techniques, and look forward to expanding my repertoire with inlay, marquetry, etc. This looks to be an excellent book.
Yes sir. I would love to have this box book.
Would be great to win this, as i was re
Would be great to win this, as I was just requested by my aging mother to build her URN for when she passes on, the ideas from this book would be very helpful
Small boxes are a great way to develop wood working skills. Books like this one are great idea generators. Would be a great one to have.
Small boxes are a great way to develop wood working skills. Books like this one are great idea generators. Would be a great one to have.
My two favorite hobbies are woodworking and reading! Would love to add this book to my collection.
i enjoy making boxes and would love to learn more.
I always appreciate the opportunity to increase my knowledge and reference library with another of your fine book offerings.
I've always been fascinated by wooden boxes, even finding unusual cigar boxes & refinishing them as gifts for my sons. This book will be a perfect doorway to a new world of woodworking.
I am a box making fanatic and would definitely try to make one if I won this book. Marquetry and inlays have always intrigued me and if the book shows how, I would try that as well.
Looks good - count me in!
Looks like a pretty interesting book to have.
There are some great looking (and challenging to build) boxes in this book. I would love a copy.
The book looks great! It covers a number of intriguing and challenging decorative and construction techniques I'm looking forward to learning about and applying to projects on a number of scales, from the boxes themselves to much larger items.
Can't wait to read it & make boxes.
I have built many boxes, however my boxes are very simple. This book was written by a very talented woodworker.
Looks like a good book!
Woodworking is a new hobby for me, and this book has me excited!
I would love to have this book since building boxes requires attention to details, adding individual artistry, but still creates a utilitarian use...allows for this philosophy and the skills learned, to affect all other projects no matter how big or small.
I've admired Dennis's work for a long time. Would be great to have this book in my collection.
Twas a few days before Christmas,
When all through the shop,
Not a tool was stirring,
Not even a mop.
Suddenly, what did appear,
A box book by Zongker,
That caught our attention,
Our love of wood grew even stronger.
I retired 6 months ago and have been trying varying wood working projects. I would love to try some of the projects described in this book.
Merry Christmas to all.
I like to make boxes, would really enjoy this book to help me along.
Here's hoping I can win the book and shower friends and family with it's contents,
Here's hoping I can win the book and shower friends and family with it's contents.
Strikes a cord - I watched a YouTube presentation on making a bandsaw box and got very intrigued. Bought an eBook on the subject and then another. Got a block of wood waiting in the shop for a bit of time (after the holiday's at the rate things are going) and then, by golly, I going to try one or more of them. This book looks very interesting although I suspect my skill level is no where high enough (now).
I managed to bandsaw some small logs from an unusual hardwood tree finally this weekend. They are very well marked and pretty. I'm hoping to make my grandaughter a jewelry box from them. I'm new to box making.
I need to win this book soon, I'm starting to cut up my wood supply to make firewood instead of boxes.
Great box book!!!!
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who could never build a box and said, er ........'heck with this!'
But learn how he was still really wantin'
So he went over to Taunton
And thought maybe this a good book for him!!
- a woodworker not a poet
Beautiful cover.
Taunton must have a stringent selection process - they never disappointment. I wish I could get more of their woodworking books.
I am stoked to have won this awesome book. Thank you very much folks. Hope everyone has a good New Years Eve.
I like Woodworking very much and i have a good collection of boxes, chairs etc and also i have fine collection of Woodworking Tools like Jigsaw, wood planer etc.
Very cool to see Dennis apply the techniques he uses in his furniture to these boxes. Looks like a great book.
Well I received the book a few weeks ago and it is keeping my chair very stable, thank you Betsy! I kid I kid! I have been sifting through the pages and decided I would share my thoughts with those considering this book. Quite simply, it is a beautiful book filled with excellent illustrative projects that cover quite the gamut of tools, concepts and processes that could apply not only to the creation of Mr. Zongker's wonderful ornate boxes but other projects besides. The book contains templates for the projects, clear and concise instructions with excellent illustrations and photographs. I hate to gush but, you will learn a little bit of everything from this book. Did I mention the projects are beautiful? Thanks once again for the book I hope to do it justice and if it is any indication of the quality of your other books, it will be joined by many others.
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