52 Boxes in 52 Weeks: Improve Your Design Skills One Box at a Time

52 Boxes in 52 Weeks: Improve Your Design Skills One Box at a Time

<p><strong>What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior editor of<em> Fine Woodworking</em> magazine sets himself the challenge of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You get <em>52 Boxes in 52 Weeks</em>, a book dedicated to making relatively simple―yet gracefully elegant―boxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build.</strong></p> <p>Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book:</p> <ul> <li><strong>how to match grain at corners </strong></li> <li><strong>how to cut miters </strong></li> <li><strong>how to make tops and bottoms </strong></li> <li><strong>how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now).</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic.</strong> And then, of course, the book transitions to the 52 boxes themselves.</p> <p> </p>