Awsome book for anyone even considering a table project!

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	• Dining Tables: Outstanding Projects from America's Best Craftsmen Kim Carleton Graves, Masha Zager Taunton, 2002 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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Dining Tables - an excellent choice

Tables...design, techniques, joinery, finishes....it is all covered in this book. I have looked for a book on tables for a long time and I finally found this one by Kim Carleton Graves. If you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced woodworker, you will learn something from this excellent book. This book is clear, concise and to the point for all skill levels. Even if you are just wanting to learn something about tables, this is still the book to buy. I very highly recommend it to anyone interested in designing, building or learning about tables. You won't be sorry you bought this book!!!!

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Covers the waterfront

Great Book. Combination of Furniture Making 101 with graduate instruction in advanced techniques. Clear descriptions and easy reading.

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All types of tables and techniques

I've purchased numerous woodworking books and found this one of the more useful. The photos are excellent and coupled with the text and tips are close to looking over the craftsman's shoulder as he completes each technique.
The book covers a wide range of table styles and techniques. It is useful to the range of woodworkers from beginner to advanced.
Basic operations such as jointing, gluing, mortising are covered as are pattern cutting and veneering. Design, dimension, structural considerations and material selection are discussed in detail. The several chapters are veneering are especially helpful. The table projects themselves range from a basic kitchen table to Queen Anne to torsion box veneered conference tables to veneered circular table. The book is helpful for some one designing a table and uncertain of the size, design or materials to use.
Some good general shop and tool information is also available on K. Carleton Graves web site.

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Interesting and versatile designs

I am an amateur wood worker, recently retired to the mountains from the music business in Los Angeles, so I was looking for interesting projects. This book is perfect for challenging my skills and tweaking my learning curve. I am currently building the boat shaped pedestal table, but modifying it by making it smaller by 3/4 and taller by 9". It will be used as an altar in a contemporary worship service (in the round) for my former church in No. Hollywood CA.

The book's instructions and ideas are very easy to follow, my only problem has been refiguring the compound angles in the pedestal due to my modifications. The illustrations and layout diagrams are first rate. Thanks to the author Kim Graves for a most enjoyable read.

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Awsome book for anyone even considering a table project!

Hi, I love this book. As usual, it is difficult to go wrong w/ the newer Taunton books and this is another winner. Fresh designs, great photographs, lots of details to assist a woodworker in making a showpiece of a dining table. It breaks otherwise intimidating designs into easy steps. While the focus is dining, I can see some of these designs being used in other types of table. The author is also on the Fine woodworking web site from time to time and was quick to answer my questions and discuss my project, This is a neat thing!
Definitely a keeper!

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