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# Comprehensive woodworking guide Same-day dispatch before noon Step-by-step skill-building projects Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship

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## Summary

> 🪚 Unlock your woodworking potential—build skills, projects, and bragging rights!

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- **What is this?** Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship
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## Key Features

- • **Fast & Reliable:** Same-day dispatch for orders received before 12 noon—get started without delay.
- • **Master the Craft:** A thorough introduction that transforms beginners into confident woodworkers.
- • **Hands-On Learning:** Skill-building projects that apply essential techniques in real-world furniture design.
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- • **Trusted Bestseller:** Highly rated with 4.6 stars from 700+ reviews, ranked top 150 in Carpentry books.

## Overview

Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship by Peter Korn is a highly rated, comprehensive guide that combines detailed tool explanations with practical, skill-building projects. Perfect for aspiring woodworkers ready to elevate their craft, it ships same day if ordered before noon and comes with guaranteed packaging and hassle-free returns.

## Description

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Review: thorough introduction to woodworking - great workbook, tool explanations, bench project, well written.
Review: Great Sill Building Class in a Book - Well thought out and presented, it is not only a reference book full of information it is also a skill building class taking the reader through various tasks that will be used in a couple of projects later on in the book. The projects are useful, elegant and as a skill building project they incorporate the techniques in the book providing practical application of some fundamental techniques. I purchased about $50 of additional tools that the projects could require (you don't have to have them but a work-around can be tedious) so if you are just starting, be prepared for the additional expense. Not a great deal of money but the book assumes that you already have some fundamental tools either powered or non powered. Also a mortising marking device is not a common item to me, but I now own one so i could complete the projects accordingly. The basics are really essential for designing and building you own furniture. I am only a third of the way into the first project but having read the book prior to starting I see that this is a great, fun way to learn and build up those wood working creds.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #203,969 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #93 in Carpentry #179 in Woodworking Projects (Books) #327 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (709) |
| Dimensions  | 8.5 x 0.38 x 11 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 156158620X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1561586202 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 192 pages |
| Publication date  | October 1, 2003 |
| Publisher  | The Taunton Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thorough introduction to woodworking
*by K***C on November 19, 2025*

great workbook, tool explanations, bench project, well written.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Sill Building Class in a Book
*by L***R on August 13, 2014*

Well thought out and presented, it is not only a reference book full of information it is also a skill building class taking the reader through various tasks that will be used in a couple of projects later on in the book. The projects are useful, elegant and as a skill building project they incorporate the techniques in the book providing practical application of some fundamental techniques. I purchased about $50 of additional tools that the projects could require (you don't have to have them but a work-around can be tedious) so if you are just starting, be prepared for the additional expense. Not a great deal of money but the book assumes that you already have some fundamental tools either powered or non powered. Also a mortising marking device is not a common item to me, but I now own one so i could complete the projects accordingly. The basics are really essential for designing and building you own furniture. I am only a third of the way into the first project but having read the book prior to starting I see that this is a great, fun way to learn and build up those wood working creds.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, informative book
*by D***S on April 25, 2025*

Good book. Using it for a woodworking class. Informative, though current edition is old.

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