Strength and resiliency through woodworking
Free Woodworking Resources
This article provides links to free woodworking resources.
RESOURCES
Ryan Barnard
1/13/2025


As a hand-tool woodworker in a machine tool world, I always seek free resources to learn from and refer my students for reference material. Please see the links below:
Understanding Wood:
Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material
https://www.fpl.fs.usda.gov/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr282/fpl_gtr282.pdf
Woodworking Instruction:
How to Use Wood-Working Tools
https://archive.org/details/woodworkingtools00indu_0
Cassell's Carpentry and Joinery
https://archive.org/details/cassellscarpentr00hasl/mode/2up
Joinery:
Woodwork Joints
https://archive.org/details/woodworkjointsho00fair
Tool Chests:
The Anarchist's Tool Chest
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ATC-May-2024_smaller.pdf
Workbenches:
Roman Workbenches
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2019/07/24/free-download-roman-workbenches/
The Anarchist's Workbench
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AWB_Consumer_June-2020_v5.1-1.pdf
Furniture Making:
The American Peasant
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/American-Peasant-July-2024.pdf
The Anarchist's Design Book
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ADB_expanded_2024.pdf
Chair Making:
The Stick Chair Book
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Stick-Chair-Book-REVISED-2023.pdf
Historical References:
A Guide to Trade: The Joiner and Cabinet-maker
https://books.google.com/books/download/The_Guide_to_Trade.pdf?id=IfIhCzHFCUQC&output=pdf
A Reverence For Wood
https://archive.org/details/a-reverence-for-wood
Woodworking Tools 1600 - 1900
https://archive.org/details/woodworking_tools_1600_to_1900
The Art of Joinery
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AOJ_revised_Jan2020.pdf
Mechanical Exercises
https://archive.org/details/PeterNicholson1812/mode/2up
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