Carpentry Books & Handbooks

Carpentry is the art of shaping and assembling structural wood into building, houses, furnature, cabinetry, tools, and just about anything that goes into building or makes our lives just a bit easier.
This catalog page has books and handbooks about carpentry for the professional carpenter, do-it-yourselfer, handyman, or hobbyist. They deal primarily with the carpentry skills required in constructing homes and other buildings. Including constructing foundation forms, rough framing of floors, walls and roofs, and installing windows and doors. Includes techniques professional roof cutters use to measure, lay out, design, and build all kinds of roofs.
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Building Framing, Rough Carpentry, and Woodworking

• Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers
  ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Rob Thallon / Spiral-bound 252 pages/ Published October 2000
This excellent book provides detailed building information for carpenters, general contractors, architectural students architects, and the do-it yourselfer. Covers foundations, walls, roofs, building techniques, materials, energy efficiency and more. Contains hundreds of detailed illustrations and excellent diagrams.
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• Basic Framing for Residential Construction ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Larry Haun / Spiral Bound 213 pages / Published November 1993
This book covering house framing may provide the basic information that you need. However using the companion videos from Taunton Press will show you step-by-step how to frame a house.
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• Precision Framing (For Pros, by Pros Series) ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Mike Guertin, Rick Arnold / Paperback 288 pages / Published February 2001
This excellent and well written book guides the reader through the steps of building residential structures. Provides everything needed to successfully build any wooden structures. This book blends articles from back issues of Fine Homebuilding to demonstrate the skills and techniques to build quality wooden structures.
This book guides you through most of the critical steps of building structures with explaination of why things are done, what to expect and how to correct imperfections, and the understanding that precision is based on care and comprehension. Photographs present a lot of unique tools and techniques and the experiences of several small equipment teams working togther with great teamwork.
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• House Framing ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-John D. Wagner, Timothy O. Bakke /Paperback 240 pages / Published April 1998
This well written and excellent book guides the reader through the steps of building a structure using the platform framiong method. Provides everything needed to successfully build a wooden structure, including structural loads, and how they interact, sizing lumber, working with the correct tools, and reading blueprints. Includes more than 500 full-color drawing to illustrate each step in the framing process. Also covers in depth building stairs, finishing a basement with steel studs, and framing a bay window. Plus work-saving field proven tips.
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• Carpentry ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Larry Haun / Hardcover 208 pages / Published April 1999
This excellent book from, the Taunton Presses's "Homebuilding Series", is a comprehensive guide to basic carpentry. It is clearly written and well illustrated, indexed, and covers the essential fundaments of carpentry.
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• Carpentry & Building Constuction: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
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-Williams P. Spence / Paperback 704 pages / Published July 1999
This is a complete do-it-yourselfer's guide to residential carpentry. Covers rough and finish carpentry, wall & ceiling framing, framing roofs, flooring, cabinets, doors and windows, tools, working safe, and much more. Includes more than 2,000 photographs, diagrams, and detailed illustrations.
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• Finish Carpentry: A Complete Interior & Exterior Guide
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-William Perkins Spence, Rodman P. Neumann, Editor / Paperback 288 pages / Published November 1995 This carpentry book covers the installation of the wooden features that will become important to the decorative appearance of the interior or exterior of a building. Covers how to select and install moldings, including trim around doors and windows. Also covers working with wall paneling, wainscoting, and gypsum wall board, installing stair and cabinet finishing trimwork, and various types of wood flooring. And for the exterior, learn the basics of cornice construction, roofing, and siding.
Includes 288 pages with 643 b/w illustractions.
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• Finish Carpenter's Manual ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Jim Tolpin / Paperback 208 pages / Published April 1993
This is a well-written manual that covers all aspects of finish carpentry including pricing your work. The step-by-step descriptions save you time, frustration, lumber, and money. Covers choosing the right tools and the right materials, installing window, door, and installing cabinets finish trimwork. Photographs and drawings show how each project is put together. And covers troubleshooting ideas when something isn't working according to plan.
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• Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, Base and Crown
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-Craig Savage, Paul Bertorelli, Editor / Paperback 185 pages / Published November 1989
This excellent book delivers the information with an easy to follow text with photographs and detailed drawings. Covers trim carpentry techniques for professional carpenters and for the handyman who wants to do a professional quality job.
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• Tricks of the Trades: Jigs, Tools and Other Labor-Saving Devices
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Fine Homebuilding Editors /Paperback 223 pages / Published May 1994
This book is a collection of articles proved by writers that have found a better way to do something. Their ideas can sometimes be more useful than a new tool. Whether you're a homeowner or an experienced contractor, you're sure to find ideas in this book you can put to use today and every day. These tips are practical solutions developed and tested on actual job sites by experienced builders.
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• Tips & Traps When Building Your Home ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Robert Irwin / Paperback 246 pages / Published August 2000
This best selling book offers home builders valuable money-saving tips to building a house from the first idea to build to the finished house. Even includes a self test to determine if you should act as the primary contractor or should you hire all the work out to contractors. And much more.
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• Tips & Techniques for Builders ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Charles Miller, Editor / Paperback 256 pages / Published November 1988
From the Fine Homebuilding magazine comes a collection of field-tested and proven tips and advice on how to improvise solutions to construction and remodling problems. Few new building construction, renovation or remodeling jobs always goe exactly as planned, so builders must learn to improvise solutions. And some have shared what they have out that worked for them and they have written it down. Here is a collection of such tested and proven tips and advice straight from the pages of the magazine.
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• Basic Lumber Engineering for Builders ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Max Schwartz / Paperback 272 pages, Book and Disk edition / Published July 1997
When you need to figure the beam and lumber requirements for a job, this book wiil help you figure the stresses for engineered wood structural members, calculate loads, including snow, seismic and impact. Including how to design girders, beams and joists. Covers most types of building and framing systems. Also covers door, window, and roof framing.
Disk includes step-by-step instructions to find the size of material needed for spans and load based upon the wood species.
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• Framing Roofs: The Best of Fine Homebuilding
  ~Usually Ships Within 2 Business Days
-Fine Homebuilding, Editors / Paperback 143 pages / Published January 2001 This book, part of the For Pros by Pros Series, is written by master carpenters. The difficult angles and intersections and precise measurements involved in roof framing make it one of the most challenging jobs in carpentry. This collection of articles teaches the reader the techniques that professionals use to design, measure, lay out, and build a wide variety of roofs.
Includes info on planning and building gable roofs, hip roofs, dormers, and many other kinds of roofs. Covers how to frame trusses and how to handle tough situtations, such as irregular hips and pitches. Additional coverage for cornices, fascia and frieze carpentry.
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• Roof Framing ~Usually Ships Within 2 Business Days
-Marshall Gross / Paperback 475 pages / Published March 1989
This book is a complete guide to framing any roof, including the gable, Dutch, Tudor, California, gambrel, shed, or gazebo roof. Coverage for mastering the irregular roof design is included. The book explains every measurement required with a easily followed text and detailed illustrations.
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• Doors: The Best of Fine Homebuilding ~Usually Ships With in 2 Business Days
-Taunton Press / Paperback 127 pages / Published May 1996
This comprehensive book provides professional advice for choosing, building, and hanging interior and exterior doors. Includes a collection of expert articles from the Fine Homebuilding magazine. Includes ideas fir adding trim to an entryway to improve the overall look of your home. Plus building simple and ornate screen doors.
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• Doormaking: A Do-It-Yourself Guide ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-John Birchard / Paperback 200 pages / Published September 1999
This excellent guide explains with clearly written instructions how to build several types of doors. Includes step-by-step instructions, illustrations and photographs. Covers hardware and how to hang a door.
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• The Doorhanger's Handbook ~On Order, usually Ships in 1-2 Weeks
-Gary Katz / Harcover 224 pages / Published November 1998
This excellent book covers the complete process of hanging doors from the beginning to end. Covers interior and exterior doors, and choosing proper hardware jambs for installation. Well illustrated and throughly diagramed.
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• The Woodworker's Guide to Pricing your Work: How to Calculate the Value of Your Time, Materials and Craftsmanship to Make Money from Your Woodworking
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-Dan Ramsey / Paperback 147 pages / Published March 1995 While this book was written primarily for carpenters and woodworkers that sell their craftsmanship in the form of expertly fashioned products, all wood workers may benefit from the expert advice in this book. This revised, comprehensive book shows how to set prices and sell your products. Learn how to calculate the value of your materials, time, and craftsmanship, ensuring that the price that is set for your work is fair and profitable. Includes a variety of sample business forms and planning sheets, along with information on selling your customers on the value of the product. Also presents ideas on how to build repeat and referral business.
Explains how to market your products at craft fairs and through retailers.
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• Roof Framing ~Usually Ships Within 2 Business Days
-Marshall Gross / Paperback 475 pages / Published March 1989
This book is a complete guide to framing any roof, including the gable, Dutch, Tudor, California, gambrel, shed, or gazebo roof. Coverage for mastering the irregular roof design is included. The book explains every measurement required with a easily followed text and detailed illustrations.
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• Full Length Roof Framer ~Usually Ships Within 2 Business Days
-A. F. J. Riechers / Library Binding / Published June 1995
Roof framers and cutters will find that the examples on laying out a roof are excellent. It gives all your lengths on every 1/2 pitch calculated from the span instead of the run, so very little math is involved. Covers common, hip, jack, valley rafters and more. And also gives the application of all your basic rafter layouts.
Another nice thing about this handy reference is that it fits nicely in your shirt pocket.
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• Roof Framer's Bible: The Complete Pocket Reference to Roof Framing
  ~Usually Ships Within 23 to 5 Weeks
-Barry D. Mussell / Hardcover 2nd edition / Published October 1996
This handy reference covers all the standard rafter tables, and the irregular combinations as well. It is very easily understood and gives all the needed formulas.
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• Means Illustrated Construction Dictionary
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-Kornelis Smit, Howard Chandler / Paperback 501 pages / Published September 1991
This comprehensive illustrated construction dictionary features 9,000 construction terms, with many detailed illustrations and examples. It is ideal for anyone who needs definitions, clarification, or interpretation of the language of construction as it is used today by the construction trades and professions. An excellent indispensable resource for construction professionals, do-it-yourselfs, homeowners, and construction reference libraries.
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• The Illustrated Dictionary of Building Terms
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-Thomas Philbin / Paperback 256 pages / Published November 1996
This comprehensive dictionary contains concise definitions of nearly 15,000 terms used in residential construction, including slang. Also provides hard-to-find industry information on shop hints, shortcuts, tips and techniques. Arranged in an easy-to-use, alphabetical format, this versatile, well illustrated resource does much more than give you instant definitions of trade terms. It also helps you to perform metric conversions, determine screw sizes, choose molding types, discover the latest building methods, and much more.
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• Carpentry
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-Leonard Koel / Library Binding, 3rd Edition / Published 1997
This book contains the definitions of the buzzwords of carpentry construction, and discussions of all aspects dealing with construction with hundreds of drawings detailing the definitions and what you need to know.
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• The Construction Forman's Safety Handbook
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-George S. Kennedy / Paperback
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• Houses: The Illustrated Guide to Construction, Design & Systems
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-Henry S. Harrison / Paperback 360 pages, 6th Edition / August 2000
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• Working Alone: Tips and Techniques for Solo Building
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-John Carroll / Hardcover 144 pages / Published October 1999
Contractors and homeowners working alone or in small crews will find this book a great help. It offers builders and do-it-yourselfers proven tips, techniques, and shortcuts for careful, precise, and safe methods to get the job done.
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