Woodwork for Women book - Cutting a New Path for Beginners

excerpt from the introduction

“When I was five,  I snuck into my stepfathers shed and borrowed his hammer. I spent a few hours wandering around our dairy farm, trying to whack 4 inch nails into the shed door, the laundry window frame, and the concrete foundations.

I wanted to build a tree house so I dragged planks of wood up into the wide flowering branches of our wattle tree and tried to nail them to the branches. I then pushed and pulled the less than enthusiastic farm dog up onto the couple of wobbly boards I'd wedged in place and together we looked out over the paddocks.

If I had been a boy, I suspect that  I would have been shown how to hold the hammer the right way and I would have been told that four inch nails have rather limited uses. Instead, when my step father discovered I had his hammer, I was sent inside to help Mum with bottling the blackberry jam.

It would be another twenty-seven years before I would pick up a hammer again”

Woodwork for Women,- Cutting a New Path for Beginners, designed specifically for women, takes a fresh look at how to learn woodwork. It is an instructional book which focuses on close up photos of techniques that will make you want to get some tools and start building.

With easy to follow instructions that do a complete job of explaining all you need to know to plan, design and build your first project, this is an informative and entertaining book of women willing to share their woodworking stories, insights and advice. It is ideal for the complete beginner or if you wish to know those finer points of measuring, marking and joint making.

With over 150 pages packed with 250 photos of women proudly showing projects, step by step techniques and invaluable information, at the end you will feel you can walk into any hardware of timber yard with confidence and comprehension.

Woodwork for Women- Cutting a New Path for Beginners, was  launched at the Byron Bay Writers Festival on the 8th of August, 2010.

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