Books published by Fox Chapel Publishing

Helps you create holiday masterpieces for the home, family and friends with the tried-and-true scroll saw projects and patterns from the archives of "Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts". This collection of holiday favourites features fretwork, compound-cuts, intarsia and inlay projects for ornaments, wreaths, Santas, portraits, and candleholders.

Everything you wanted to know about building a workbench, making outfeed tables for shop machines, making work tables and assembly tables, storage cabinets for tools, materials, supplies. Bonus: Build like an aircraft engineer, super-flat and strong with a torsion box workbench, assembly table, and alignment beams.

Follow along as Harold Enlow, one of America's foremost caricature carvers, teaches you how to carve faces with life and expression. Enlow shares his woodcarving tips and techniques that make his carvings stand out in this information-packed book. You'll learn to carve a female face, a cowboy face, a Native American face, a Santa face, and more. Best of all, you'll discover Enlow's secret to success: learning how to render highly detailed eyes, lips, nose, hair, and ears before moving on to carving a complete face. Each project is done in small steps that guarantee success. For anyone who wants to learn to carve faces that stand out in a crowd, this is a must-have addition to your woodcarving library.

Gathers useful information about woodturning chucks and fixtures. This book is designed to help both beginners and advanced turners improve their skills and broaden the range of projects they tackle at the lathe, by presenting a crafted combination of how-to advice and projects.

Use this ultimate scroll saw beginner's guide to hone your scrolling skills to perfection. You'll find everything you need to know here, boiled down to the best and simplest methods. Practice a specific technique in each of 25 skill-building chapters, and then use that skill to make an attractive project. As you progress, each chapter builds upon the previous skills you've already learned. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be ready to tackle any scroll saw project with experience and confidence. Begin with the basics of cutting straight, curved, and jagged lines, and then progress to more advanced techniques like stack cutting, relief, inlay, compound, segmentation, and more. Project patterns include die-cut stationery, a fish silhouette, a butterfly with interior cuts, a hummingbird ornament, and a collapsible wooden basket. This new third edition provides an objective guide to all of the scroll saw models available in today's market, updated to include information on new scroll saw manufacturers.

Guitars, furniture, even canoes... bending wood adds a new dimension to what can be built in a workshop. This resource provides woodworkers information they need: from the woods best suited to bending to understanding fundamental hand and machine bending techniques. It includes topics of moisture content and wood preparation and elasticity.

i i A complete guide for pyrographers who want to learn how to improve their lettering skills on a variety of mediums - wood, paper, and leatherIncludes 7 of the most common and popular types and fonts in both upper and lowercase, as well as symbolsInstructions for applying and transferring patterns, as well as tips and tricks for fixing mistakesInformation on sizing and laying out your designs, plus practice projectsFeatures instruction on customizing designs to create monograms, sayings, and other personalized touches to calligraphy projectsLora S. Irish is a best-selling author and renowned pyrography artist with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide of her 30 published instructional guides and countless patterns for beginners and experts alike

A complete blacksmithing guide for metalworkers that provides detailed overviews on a variety of blacksmithing tools, techniques, and projects, Home Workshop Blacksmithing will walk you through everything you need to know. With informative sections on safety, taking heats, cutting steel, and other fundamentals, also provided are step-by-step projects for making your own forge, tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more. The ultimate resource for anyone interested in gaining fundamental metalworking skills, Home Workshop Blacksmithing is a must-have, project-based book to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need!

A fun and educational exploration of nature through play! This on-the-go activity book teaches kids all about beautiful birds, from hummingbirds and owls to robins, blue jays, and so many more, all while having loads of fun! With hundreds of crazy cool secret codes, puzzles, word searches, fun facts, and so much more, these entertaining bird activities will keep kids engaged as they learn.

Sewing Soft Books is a super simple guide to creating soft baby books and interactive activity books for kids that promote fine motor skills and learning through play! The first-ever step-by-step book to sewing sensory toys and quiet books, this complete guide includes easy-to-follow instructions for creating various book page patterns.