Book - 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks: Improve Your Design Skills One Box at a Time by Matt Kenney

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The senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine and accomplished woodworker Matt Kenney, set himself a task of designing and building one box a week for a solid year! The result bei ng 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively simple - yet gracefully elegant - boxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build, and of course, 52 boxes. Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book: how to match grain at corners, how to cut mitres, how to make tops and bottoms, and how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint. Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic. Show more