The Jeff Miller Woodworking Collection

THE WOODWORKING DESIGN COLLECTION - ONLY 69 LEFT !

Format: Bundle 

Learn tool and body mechanics basics, design and more in this collection of books, videos and articles featuring Chicago-based woodworker Jeff Miller. You'll expand your design vocabulary and technique approaches for building beds, incorporating graceful curves in your work for an organic look and more from an award-winning woodworker. (Includes Jeff's best-selling book, Chairmaking & Design!)

Foundations of Better Woodworking by Jeff Miller

Hardcover Book

In The Foundations of Better Woodworking, craftsman, teacher and noted woodworking author Jeff Miller clearly lays out these basic concepts, helping you understand:

• Foundations of Better Woodworking by Jeff Miller
• Hardcover Book
• In The Foundations of Better Woodworking, craftsman, teacher and noted woodworking author Jeff Miller clearly lays out these basic concepts, helping you understand:
• How proper body position and mechanics improve your ability to cut precise joints, as well as add to your efficiency and safety
• Just what it means to cut to a line
• How the wood works, so you can avoid such problems as tear out, splitting and warping - whether you use hand tools, machinery or both
• How woodworking tools actually cut and work, so you to use them more easily, effectively and accurately

Follow the advice in this book and you'll build the foundation for making significant advances as a woodworker. Your time in the shop will be more rewarding, and your results more satisfying.

Foundations of Better Woodworking with Jeff Miller

DVD

If you're like most woodworkers, you spend a lot of time tuning and adjusting your tools to get the absolute best performance. But if you really want to learn flawless woodworking techniques you also need to tune yourself. That's right. Improving the way you use your tools-whether hand tools or power tools-can be critical to the quality of your woodworking. 

In this dynamic 90+ minute woodworking video you'll discover:

• Which eye you use to lay out and line up a cut can affect whether your dovetails are perfect or too loose.
• How you can tell when a tool is correctly sharpened by the sound it makes.
• What burn marks on the wood, as well as the smell of the burn, can tell you important things about using table saws and other tools.
• How you apply pressure and control each tool not only affects the ease and efficiency of a cut but the safety of each woodworking operation too.

Using the Versatile Chisel with Jeff Miller

DVD

The chisel is a simple tool, but is essential in any shop. Using one effectively depends on proper care and sharpening, understanding the wood and using the tool in relation with your body.

With Jeff Miller's expert instruction, you'll learn:

• The specific function of a variety of chisels
• Techniques for fast and effective sharpening
• How to cut accurate dovetails
• Effective clamping and setup techniques forgetting a clean chop
• The behavior of grain direction and the influence the chisel has on the cut
• How to properly square a hole
• And much more!

Chairmaking & Design by Jeff Miller

Paperback Book

The Chairmaking & Design book includes 7 elegant chair patterns and tips. Build your skill set with straightforward plans and methods for making the designs and adding the finishing touches. Charimaking & Design was the 1998 Stanley Award winner for best woodworking book.

Design & Techniques for Building Curvy Furniture with Jeff Miller

DVD

A graceful arch. The gentle sweep of a rocker. These small details change a piece's design from merely functional to simply fabulous, and guarantee that your work will elicit compliments and just a little bit of envy.

You'll learn:

• A variety of methods to lay out curves with simple tools
• Techniques for patterns that make working with curves easier
• How to wield the best tools for defining and refining curves
• Methods for creating 3D curves
• How to laminate pieces using forms to create strong but flexible components-and how to clean off the glue
• Tips for cutting solid joinery on curved pieces
• And much more!

Beds: Outstanding Projects from One of America's Best Craftsmen by Jeff Miller

Paperback Book

Expand your Shaker-style, pencil post, bunk beds, and other design knowledge with 9 different beds.
Jeff includes a chapter on general construction strategies for building any bed design making these projects accessible to any skill level woodworker. Beds features clear step-by-step instructions to build each bed and exploded, measured drawings that show every detail. Jeff makes it easy to get started with cut lists. 

Complementary Curves by Jeff Miller

Digital Download

Make a graceful table with Jeff Miller's step-by-step instructions. Most of the challenge in making the Complementary Curves table is in the preparation. Explore this great introduction to bent lamination and build a project that is less complicated then it appears.

Contemporary Cabriole Legs by Jeff Miller

Digital Download

Jeff integrates cabriole legs as a new approach to a traditional design element. In this modern translation of historic cabriole legs he focuses on an organic approach to the connection between the apron and the legs. Enjoy this detailed article with step-by-step instructions for Jeff's contemporary cabriole leg design.

Great Woodshops: Designs of Note by Christopher Schwarz

Digital Download

Want to know more about the popular furniture maker, Jeff Miller? Find out how he started out in a music career and finally found his calling as a furniture maker?
Christopher describes Jeff's work as a balancing act "between solid and ephemeral, old and new, traditional and funky". Jeff Miller pushes himself and his forms; he is constantly testing the boundaries in a graceful, informed style 

Perfect Shoulders by Jeff Miller

Digital Download

While Jeff was contemplating cutting tenon shoulders for some more complicated chair designs he discovered and resurrected old tools that pervious furniture making generations had already invented. Follow Jeff's step-by-step directions for making some 18th-century tools that will make your 21st-century work easier.

Slat-back Chair by Jeff Miller

Digital Download

This project covers all the basics of chair making; curves, angles, comfort and structure. Jeff Miller also goes beyond the basics with sophisticated joinery. Make your own slat-back chair.

Follow Jeff Miller's instructions on:

• Shapely Legs
• Angled Mortises
• Curve Creation
• Cut Laminations Strips
• Slat Glue-up
• Chair Assembly
• Finishing Touches and more!

Order your copy of The Jeff Miller Woodworking Collection today!

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