Background

"Over the last three decades, I have worked professionally in woodworking as a boatbuilder, a timber-frame housewright and a custom cabinetmaker. I have also written books and articles about general woodworking, cabinetmaking and finish carpentry--and more recently about home design. My how-to articles have been published in most of the major woodworking magazines including Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding. I maintained a regular column for CabinetMaker and Woodshop News magazines and I have written a number of feature articles for Cottage and Coastal Living magazines. I have also produced thirteen books in this period of time that have together sold more than 750,000 copies to date. I am the immediate past president of a technical writer’s trade organization: The National Association for Home and Workshop Writers." Today my passion is teaching woodworking...I just love watching people discover the joy of working good wood with good tools into beautiful, useful objects!"

Books by Jim Tolpin:

• The New Traditional Woodworker
• The Tool Chest Book
• More