Really helpful guide on how to get started with woodworking, what you need to buy, and how to make some simple projects. I wish materials were cheaper these days, but I'm learning little by little!

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

A good how-to manual with clear instructions and bright, helpful photographs. An excellent choice for the beginning woodworker.

Thanks to NetGalley and D.K Publishing for an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

Very detailed visual guide for all the tools needed for woodworking projects. Rich with pictures and descriptions, this is a comprehensive guide. They have several projects at the end with lots of step by step directions.

Comprehensive, instructive, easy-to-use and fully illustrated with concise photography, this is a one-stop shop for everything carpentry. I was highly impressed - this is great for someone just starting a hobby in woodworking or those looking for more intermediate instruction. The book grows with the reader as they grow proficient in the craft.

The book has four main sections: tools, techniques, wood types, and projects. Within those sections, you'll have a comprehensive list (all carefully photographed) of all the tools available, the techniques you'll need from miter jointing to veneering and restoration, images of all the types of soft and hard woods, and then projects that increase in degree of difficulty to create. The projects themselves are also very smartly presented to be easy and easily referenced.

For those looking to get into the hobby, this is a very comprehensive book that will include everything from hand tools to simple projects. For those more advanced, you have all you need to know about the more industrial or specialized machines. You likely won't need whole sections but they are there as your skill improves and you want to move to more complex woodwork. It's a book that you can always reference to know what you need to get the job done right.

The projects start simple but are chosen to give you a chance to try a wide range of techniques. You won't have to break the bank for the simple tools and over time you can get an idea of what machines or tools you may eventually want to purchase as you move on to more intricate projects. So don't be daunted by the sheer amount of tools or techniques if you are a beginner - this is a book that will last you as you progress in carpentry.

I was highly impressed by the sheer number of photographs. Every step, technique, wood type, and project step has one or several photographs. In fact, I had a hard time finding anything in the book that was not clearly explained and photographed. This isn't the type of textbook where you get walls of words - it is all beautifully and intelligently presented with all the visuals you need to understand the concepts and get the job done right.

In all, I am highly impressed. This is everything I was looking for on getting into woodworking - and all in one intelligently presented book. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

Woodwork Step by Step is a tutorial guide to carpentry techniques from the DIY experts at DK. Originally published as Woodwork: a Step-by-Step Photographic Guide to Successful Woodworking, this reformat and re-release is due out 9th Feb 2021 from Penguin Random House on their DK imprint. It's 224 pages and will be available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats.

DK are well known for accessible, very well written and illustrated technique guides covering a plethora of subjects. This is another solid guide containing tutorials for a variety of woodworking basics. The tutorials do utilize both hand and (some) power tools. The introduction covers tools, selection, supplies, and some workshop safety and setup.

The tutorials themselves are arranged thematically: technique tutorials first, followed by a primer on wood and materials selection, ending with 8 complete project tutorials using the techniques covered in the earlier parts of the book. The tutorials are attractive and suitable for advanced beginners to intermediate level (with access to a woodworking shop).

Each tutorial has a description in a header bar followed by materials and cutting lists, project dimensions, isometric (exploded) line drawings, and full color process pictures with the tutorial directions. Sidebars contain important info such as key techniques and finishing info. The pictures are clear and easy to understand. Tools are shown in cutting/action positions.

The book also includes an abbreviated glossary and index.

This would be a great selection for library use, maker's group, scouts/activity groups, possibly school use, or the home/shop library. Five stars. It's a solid resource.

This is an outstanding carpentry book with full color photos throughout, but it is really designed for people who want to create seriously professional woodworking projects and who have access to a full range of professional carpentry machinery. There are great guides to tools and how to use them safely, types of woods (more than I ever knew existed), the multitude of ways to join pieces, and much more. It's heavily illustrated of every element. Our whole family is interested in woodworking but most of this information is past our level because we don't have access to the kinds of tools used here. I'm not talking hand tools but things the full set-up of expensive carpentry machinery. Don't get this for your kid looking to start a hobby, but do consider it for folks who want to create seriously well crafted items. A few projects are included to get you started like a cutting board and beveled mirror, but even these use advanced skills and tools.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

This is a nice, clear guide; not especially beautifully designed the way some contemporary craft/hobby books can be but, I think, more genuinely useful than most. Some parts of it are intermediate/more complicated, but a lot of it is also really helpful for beginners and people with just basic tools. A lot of customers are really into learning new useful skills in quarantine right now, and this will be a great, no-fuss introduction. I think it could use more simple projects in the final chapter, as actually building something is generally the way to get people comfortable with woodwork.