Practical Ideas for a fun, affordable hobby This comprehensive guide covers all the elements needed for setting up and maintaining a personal woodturning shop on a budget.

Add Instant Rustic Charm to Your Home with Easy, Custom Woodburnings Kick your crafting up a notch with incredible handmade woodburnings! Whether you want to combine inspirational hand lettering with alpine charm in the Mountain Scene woodburning or complement your farmhouse aesthetic with one-of-a-kind Deer Silhouette Wall Décor, the art of pyrography is an easy, enjoyable way to fill your home with custom art. Aney Carver is the founder of Pyrocrafters, and in this book she shows you exactly how simple this impressive craft is. With just a wood canvas and a woodburning tool easily found at craft stores, you can make anything you can imagine! Each easy-to-follow project provides a traceable design template, then walks you through essential techniques like outlining and shading. With a variety of pieces like the darling Keepsake Box with Ink and the majestic Eagle Eye portrait, you can hone your pyrography skills as you create your own wonderful woodburnings. So grab your canvas and woodburning tool, because it’s time to play with fire.

One way or another,whether we buy or make them,we eat pies by the millions. From the football terraces to the family table, pies have always held a special place in food history. A pie is an ingenious idea - meat, vegetables or fruit develop their finest flavours when cooked in their own juices and encased in a pastry crust. Pies have been enjoyed since at least the 9th century,when the Abbey of Fontenelle in France received an order for 38 goose and 95 chicken pies. Both filling and crust have equal importance and over the years a multitude of recipes have been developed, each one proclaiming to be the best. Pie presents the story of this tasty dish. Each pie has a story to tell, a history of provenance, pie-makers, innovation and experimentation. Pie shows you how to master the art of pastry making and how to transform even the most frugal filling into a luxurious meal. Simple to make and impressive to serve, pies can be enjoyed in an infinite variety of styles, from the portable Cornish pasty to the comforting and hearty steak and kidney pie or the delicious and more exotic calzone.

Thomas Loring (d. 1661) married Jane Newton, and immigrated from England to Hingham, Massachusetts. Descendants lived throughout the United States, and some immigrated to Canada.

This is the only book of its kind -- dedicated to every aspect of the lathe. Completely revised and updated, it includes information on how to choose a lathe, how to maintain and repair a lathe, and basic techniques.

Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technololgy, and humor, he provides both a source of general information and a detailed introduction to traditional woodworking. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough bowls, lathes, blacksmithing, dovetails, panel-frame construction, log houses, and timber-frame construction. More than 330 photographs illustrate the text.