Free Woodworking Resources

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Historical References: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