Complete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes

Complete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes: Learn to Build Beautiful and Practical Containers for Everyday Use is more than an introduction to woodworking. It's the perfect companion for your first foray into greater craftsmanship--taking the knowledge you learn from making small wooden boxes and invigorating your love for working with wood! Author Albert Kleine, a longtime woodworker who teaches woodworking to beginners, presents projects by featuring more easily executed first, such as one made with a simple butt joint and progressing through more advanced such as a desk try with marquetry bottom. You'll learn everything from cutting dovetails to adjusting hinge mortises for a lid that fits just right. With Complete Starter Guide to Making Wooden Boxes, you'll get everything you wanted from a woodworking introduction - all without breaking the bank on a lot of expensive wood and supplies before you earn your first stripes. Join Kleine as he teaches you the fundamentals of wooden box making and learn why so many woodworkers find it be an enjoyable and rewarding endeavor.

Albert Kleine is a self-taught hobbyist woodworker based out of a small shed in suburban Washington, D.C. Over the past decade he has focused heavily on fine box making, more recently delving into carving, marquetry, and other decorative aspects of woodworking. He teaches beginner woodworking courses both in-person and virtually, and his work has been featured in Fine Woodworking Magazine. Outside of woodworking, Albert is an economist at his day job and the proud father of Maximilian.