Shop Built Blast Gates is a comprehensive guide to producing blast gates for your dust collection system. It includes detail drawings, material requirements, and step by step instruction with many high quality photographs of manufacturing processes. Also included are several detail drawings of tools and fixtures. There are detail and assembly drawings provided for 10 different designs. Additionally, the author explains how to easily mix and match components from the 10 designs to allow you to quickly and easily produce literally dozens of different sizes and types of gates. In addition to the detail drawings, the author has included nearly six dozen color photographs and illustrations along with step by step instruction for producing each individual part and completing the assembly. These are working blast gates, that have been shop tested and are used daily in the authors own shop. If you have been considering building your own blast gates, or if you just wanted to know how. This is the information source you have been looking for. With this book, you will have all the information you will ever need to produce "Shop Built Blast Gates"

Build furniture the way your ancestors did! Do you enjoy the satisfaction of creating things entirely by hand? Immerse yourself in the world of traditional woodworking as period furniture expert Zachary Dillinger walks you through the hand-tool-only construction of six pieces of classic American furniture. From preparing stock by hand to period-correct joinery methods, you'll learn how our forefathers built furniture--and why they did things the way they did. Within these pages you'll find: An overview of the historical development of major furniture styles from the 1960s through to the mid-19th century--and the European influences from which they evolved. Instruction for period-correct woodworking techniques. Six detailed furniture projects covering popular period styles. Traditional approaches to finishing touches including insights into upholstering by renowned teacher Michael Mascelli and advice from Nancy Cogger of Londonderry Brasses for choosing period-accurate hardware. With Saw, Plane & Chisel shows you how period furniture was made, explains how furniture styles developed and in turn helps you build excellent, realistic heirloom pieces.