Free Ebooks for Beginner Wood Workers

[echnidna]

I'm thinking about making some free ebooks (pdf) available to beginner woodies.

I have a couple of excellent books in hand that I'm preparing now.

Any suggestions to help the newbies get started?

[K_S]

Sounds like a generous offer. What subjects are you thinking of doing mate

[echnidna]

woodworking for beginners etc
maybe a wood turning book etc
looking for suggestions

[Tonyz]

Dont do anything on staining and glues

[echnidna]

I was keeping right away from finishing altogether.

Others have put a lot of time & effort with videos etc for forum members so some free ebooks are in keeping with the helpful nature of the forum.

At one stage I did consider packing some of the very useful forum threads into pdf's soley for members benefit, but intuition told me it wasn't prudent seeing as how I do sell a few ebooks.

Anyway its brass monkey weather at the moment so I can keep busy in a warm house instead of freezing in the shed or the bush.

[johnc]

Not sure if this what you are after Bob but one of the best things for me was learning of the existence of the shooting board. Before then tweaking anything slightly out of square had been a nightmare, that one simple gadget has made a world of a difference.

John

[chrisb691]

For beginning turners, I would think something on the cutting profile of the various chisels would be useful. ie. Why the particular grind,/profile, where is it used, and why is it used there.

[echnidna]

Shooting boards & chisel profiles etc should be in a beginners ebook as they are part of basic woodworking

[rat52]

basic tools to be used for simple small projects but most importantly how to sharpen, tune and maintain them without becoming too technical or bogging them down with details.

That will be so easy to do