Think inside the box! It’s amazing how many ways the experts at Wood� magazine find to make the seemingly simple and always popular box durable, useful, and attractive. Just look at the appealing photos showcasing a bevy of bandsawn boxes, boxes with exquisite marquetry, lovely luminary boxes, and many more to inspire the woodworker. Here are the ABCs of box making, all replete with pictures and diagrams, and with breathtaking techniques aplenty. Transform functional side joints into highly decorative ones that also add strength; attach veneers to create three-dimensional illusions; form imaginative boxes at the bandsaw from a single piece of wood; and use inlay, scrollsaw, beveling, and molding. Most enticing are the more than three dozen designs ranging from fanciful to utilitarian. A Selection of the F&W Book Club.
Thorough and complete step-by-step instructions help readers build such projects as a coffee table, picture frame, magazine rack, and wall clock. Every project includes diagrams, illustrations, and full-color photos of the finished project. 70 photos, 34 in full-color.
Hundreds of ways to get the most out of your tools and materials-for every skill level - 311 step-by-step diagrams and photos, many in full color-p. [4] of cover.
More than 26 projects feature a great mix of large and small outdoor crafts for Spring. Wood furniture and accessories to be made include porch swings and rockers, birdhouses and feeders, planters, carts and wagons, and more. 30 color photos; 188 diagrams and illustrations.
Containing a wide range of projects such as a porch swing, birdhouse, and outdoor planter, this bestselling woodworking book includes thorough, complete step-by-step instructions, cutting diagrams, exploded diagrams, illustrations, and color photos of the finished project. 30 photos, 22 in full-color.
From desks and tables to entertainment centers, "Shop-Tested Furniture You Can Make" includes step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and color photos of the finished project to make crafting large furniture foolproof for both the woodworking enthusiasts and beginners. 60 photos, 30 in full-color.
Wood(R) magazine has gathered scrollsawers' finest techniques and projects in a pattern collection that any woodworker will treasure. Take the 80 patterns of animals, autos, birds, buildings, people, and places, and either follow the projects exactly as shown, incorporate the designs into a different piece, or do some mixing and matching. There's plenty of technical advice, too.
From the experts at Wood magazine come technical advice, wonderful projects, and practical tips, for that most versatile and popular woodworking tool, the router.
Provides patterns and instructions for making a tray, spice cabinet, plate rack, quilt stand, trestle table, chair, and other pieces, all with a country look
Bursting with a cornucopia of gorgeous artwork and photos, this second of two volumes of the Eisner Award–nominated The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood also features the vivid personal recollections of the friends, colleagues, and assistants who knew him best. The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 completes this revealing, intimate portrait of the brilliant but troubled maverick comics creator (EC Comics, Mad, Daredevil, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, witzend, The Justice Society of America, The Wizard King). Contributors include Larry Hama, John Workman, Trina Robbins, Paul Krassner, Flo Steinberg, Tom Sutton, Bill Pearson, and Paul Levitz. Professor Ben Saunders reveals the meticulous handcrafted wizardry that made Wood’s most famous story, “My World” possible. A special tribute gallery includes artwork by Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Dave Sim, Drew Friedman, and others. Introduction by Eisner Award–winning writer/artist Ed Piskor.
Fast fun for the entire family! This delightful collection of 24 projects features step-by-step instructions, exploded diagrams, and full-size patterns for almost every project. Full-color photos of the finished project plus how-to photos.
Tells how to select carving tools, demonstrates various carving techniques, and suggests projects, including a sign, wall plaque, and models of coyotes, otters, cardinals, bluegills, whales, and Santas
This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper’s Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by an array of canonical and marginalized writers, including Storm Jameson, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The book’s analysis is attentive to text and image and to interactions between editorial, feature, and advertising material. Its detailed survey of these largely neglected magazines reveals how they situated radical aesthetics in relation to modernity’s broader new challenges, diversions, and opportunities for women, and how they approached high modernist art and literature through discourses of fashion and celebrity. Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines extends recent research into modernism’s circulation through diverse markets and publication outlets and adds to the substantial body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between modernism and popular culture. It demonstrates that commercial women’s magazines subversively disrupted and sustained contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture as well as actively participating in the construction of modernism’s public profile.
This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper’s Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by an array of canonical and marginalized writers, including Storm Jameson, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The book’s analysis is attentive to text and image and to interactions between editorial, feature, and advertising material. Its detailed survey of these largely neglected magazines reveals how they situated radical aesthetics in relation to modernity’s broader new challenges, diversions, and opportunities for women, and how they approached high modernist art and literature through discourses of fashion and celebrity. Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines extends recent research into modernism’s circulation through diverse markets and publication outlets and adds to the substantial body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between modernism and popular culture. It demonstrates that commercial women’s magazines subversively disrupted and sustained contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture as well as actively participating in the construction of modernism’s public profile.
Vanguard continues their Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics series with new, previously uncollected Western works by Hall of Fame comic book creator Wallace Wood. Mad Magazine, Daredevil, Power Girl, Vampirella, Weird Science, The Avengers, The Spirit, Mars Attacks, Superboy, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Galaxy Magazine: These are among the works that made Wallace "Wally" Wood one of the most legendary of all comic book and science-fiction creators. Now, Vanguard continues their Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics series with new, previously uncollected Western works in, Wally Wood Cowboys & County Girls. This is the definitive collection of Wally Wood western comics, which range from six-guns blazing out molten lead to the kitschy to the risqué. Nearly 200 pages spanning the Hall of Fame creator's career, from 1949 to 1972 with titles like Western Outlaws, Jesse James, Western Crime Busters, Frontier Romances, Hoot Gibson, Gunfighters, Red Wolf and Shattuck―most have never been collected. Plus examples of Wood's EC Comics and Marvel Westerns with commentary by J. David Spurlock.
John Fletcher's theology of Pentecost is generally unknown today, and this book is the first comprehensive treatise on this subject. His writings were in large part responsible for shaping the theology of early American Methodism, especially his treatise on Christian Perfection, which highlighted a theology of Pentecostal sanctification. Wood recounts the decisive influence Fletcher had on early Methodism, and shows that his writings were able to "control the opinions of the largest and most effective body of evangelical clergymen of the earth." Fletcher's views on the Holy Spirit were also relevant in the ecumenical movement, specifically with reference to the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order held in Lima, Peru, in 1982. This group recommended the introduction of a liturgy of the Spirit in Christian baptism. For students and scholars or general readers interested in Methodist history and theology. Also a resource for pastors-helpful in developing a theology of Pentecost that will preach in a relevant way in the contemporary world.
Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship. The year is famous, but most fans know very little about the season. During that tumultuous summer, the Great War in Europe cast an ominous shadow over the national game, as enlistments and the draft wreaked havoc with every team's roster. Players and owners fought bitterly over contracts and revenue, the parks were infested with gamblers, and the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs almost called off the World Series. And a Boston player known as The Colossus -- 23-year-old Babe Ruth -- began his historic transformation from pitching ace to the game's greatest slugger. Wood also poses a chilling question: Was the 1918 World Series fixed? Sports Illustrated called the book "an entertaining and exhaustive account of a tumultuous season" and Robert W. Creamer, author of the definitive biography of Ruth, said "Mr. Wood has lit upon one of the most turbulent and important and at the same time least known years in baseball history. He has done remarkable, revelatory research, and he has a clean, clear way of writing.
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