Matt Bickford’s book, “Mouldings in Practice,” sets out to remake the way you look at, cut and apply the mouldings to your projects.
It is quite unlike any other book we have ever encountered. Why? Bickford grapples with a core idea that has plagued woodworkers for generations: Cutting mouldings by hand requires years of practice, patience and the acquisition of high-level skills.
After reading this book, I think you will say about that old idea: “Wow. That’s crap.”
To kick-start your education in cutting mouldings, we are offering a free download of a critical chapter of “Mouldings in Practice.” This short chapter lays out the basic principles of the book and shows the landscape that it covers.
To download the chapter, simply click here. You don’t have to register, give up some special bodily cells or even your e-mail address.
If you like what you see and read, you can order “Mouldings in Practice” with free domestic shipping by clicking here. This offer of free shipping is valid only until Aug. 8, which is when the book leaves the printing plant in Michigan. After that, you’ll have to pay shipping, just like any other stiff.
Long-time customers can tell you that this is the only sort of promotion we run on our products. We don’t put stuff on fake “sales.” The price is the price. This pre-publication special is the only one you will ever see on this book.
So take a look at the chapter and decide if you really want to continue making mouldings with that spinning, noisy, dangerous machine in your shop. Or if you want to make any moulding you can imagine with just a few simple tools and the ideas in “Mouldings in Practice.”
— Christopher Schwarz
Reblogged this on Stu's Shed and commented:
A very dangerous book for one’s bank balance. Not that the book will be overly expensive, but the resulting desire to source a set of moulding planes!
Here is a free download of chapter 3 of the book.
You guys are killing me. I have been anticipating this book for so long that I ordered it the first day. I finally got to the point where I could be patient and wait for delivery. Now that I see this chapter, I am super excited again!
I can’t wait for the e-reader version! Thanks for the teaser chapter.
I took a day off work yesterday to practice some of the profiles from Ch 3.
I really need to work on rabbetting :0(
Chris you keep outdoing yourself. Another great publishing for the hand tool community. Thank you and a special thanks to Matt Bickford for sharing his knowledge on making mouldings by hand.