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Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home

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Description:The Woods We Live With has been written by people who themselves live with, work with, love, buy and sell wood. The fact that they sell and write about wood mostly over 150 years old does not dim their enthusiasm and interest for wood, or their ability to convey modern ideas simply.The Schiffers are authors, collectors, antique dealers, and appraisers. They also have a cabinet shop doing fine restorations on antique furniture. With their background they bring you some of the tricks of identifying woods and show you how the wood can tell you where and when a piece of furniture was made.Besides this information, this book includes information the Schiffers were able to acquire from experts in the fields of forestry, hardwood sales, museum sciences, cabinet work, and mill work as well as their personal knowledge of other furniture dealers and collectors.The color selection in this book shows not only the woods most frequently used for cabinet making and building, but also woods oxidized and ages. The pictures of secondary woods in oxidized condition and finished old primary wood surfaces has never been presented before. Twenty-six actual samples of wood are here for your touch and inspection.The authors have pictured wood that you have the greatest chance of seeing and handling. Included are fantastic pictures of the lumber industry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home. To get started finding Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1977

ISBN: 0916838102

Description: The Woods We Live With has been written by people who themselves live with, work with, love, buy and sell wood. The fact that they sell and write about wood mostly over 150 years old does not dim their enthusiasm and interest for wood, or their ability to convey modern ideas simply.The Schiffers are authors, collectors, antique dealers, and appraisers. They also have a cabinet shop doing fine restorations on antique furniture. With their background they bring you some of the tricks of identifying woods and show you how the wood can tell you where and when a piece of furniture was made.Besides this information, this book includes information the Schiffers were able to acquire from experts in the fields of forestry, hardwood sales, museum sciences, cabinet work, and mill work as well as their personal knowledge of other furniture dealers and collectors.The color selection in this book shows not only the woods most frequently used for cabinet making and building, but also woods oxidized and ages. The pictures of secondary woods in oxidized condition and finished old primary wood surfaces has never been presented before. Twenty-six actual samples of wood are here for your touch and inspection.The authors have pictured wood that you have the greatest chance of seeing and handling. Included are fantastic pictures of the lumber industry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home. To get started finding Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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