Popular Woodworking Practical Shop Math

A Comprehensive 'Cheat Sheet' to Woodworking Math

Features the most common woodworking formulas and conversions

Convenient binding allows book to lay flat for hands-free reading

Woodworkers need to use math every time they go into the shop, but trying to remember every formula or conversion is almost impossible. Now, woodworkers don't need to remember anything about math—except where to find the answers! Popular Woodworking's Shop Math explains woodworking math formulas and conversions in simple layman's terms, and includes sections on working with fractions and decimals, enlarging grid patterns, converting a photograph into a dimensioned drawing and more. This handy guide makes woodworking math easy as 1-2-3!

Tom Begnal was managing editor of The Woodworker's Journal magazine for more than fifteen years. He has written or edited woodworking and how-to books for several publishers including F+W Publications, McGraw-Hill, Rodale Press and Sterling Publishing, and is presently an associate editor with Fine Woodworking magazine.