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Before You Go, Let Me Share Something I Learned The Hard Way

Your plans show you exactly WHAT to build. But there's a difference between a shed that's built… and a shed that's built to LAST.

The men who framed barns and workshops 80, 100, 150 years ago didn't have power tools, treated lumber, or YouTube. What they had was know-how — how to read a board, square a corner, seal a joint, and make a structure outlive the man who built it.

Most of that know-how never made it into modern plans. It's sitting in old workshop manuals that went out of print decades ago.

That's why I put together the Ultimate Woodworking Compendium — 147 books, over 25,000 pages, published between 1826 and 2012 — and why I hand it to my customers at a price collectors would laugh at.
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The Ultimate Woodworking Compendium

147 original workshop manuals. 25,000 pages. Two centuries of know-how — in one archive.

The Ultimate Woodworking Compendium
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The largest digitized archive of original workshop manuals I know of — yours to keep forever.

Most of these books have been out of print for decades — some for over a century. Hunting down used copies would cost you north of $596, if you could find them at all.

And because I know you're here to build a shed — not to read 25,000 pages — I did the homework for you:

Inside, you'll find my Shed-Builder's Shortlist: the 12 manuals I'd pull off the shelf first for any outdoor build — with a note on exactly what to take from each one.

Inside the Shortlist alone you'll discover:

  • How old-timers squared a foundation with nothing but string and arithmetic
  • The joint they used on barn doors that won't sag after 20 winters
  • What "reading the grain" actually means, and how it decides which boards go where on your shed
  • Plus: carpentry techniques, hand-tool work, shop mathematics, blueprint reading, finishing and weatherproofing — all 13 subject areas, all searchable, on any device, forever.

The topics covered include everything:

  • Understanding Wood
  • Furniture & Design
  • Advanced Woodworking
  • Carpentry Techniques
  • Turning & Finishing
  • Carving & Pattern Making
  • Proper Finishing Techniques
  • Upholstery & Leather Work
  • Shop Mathematics
  • Blueprint Reading
  • Working With Hand Tools
  • Working With Machine Tools
  • Working With Shop Machinery
  • …and much more

So what's inside the Ultimate Woodworking Compendium?

Take a quick peek at every single book included:

See The Complete List Of All 147 Books
  1. 1 - Wood-working for amateur craftsmen (1911)
  2. 2 - Woodworking for Beginners (1905)
  3. 3 - Woodworking Machinery (1894)
  4. 4 - Woodworking Tools (1881)
  5. 5 - Wood-working Tools (1896)
  6. 6 - A brief history of wood-engraving from its invention (1895)
  7. 7 - A Course in Wood Turning (1919)
  8. 8 - A high school course in wood pattern making (1916)
  9. 9 - A History Of Wood Engraving (1883)
  10. 10 - A laboratory course in wood-turning (1897)
  11. 11 - A manual of carpentry and joinery (1905)
  12. 12 - A manual of fret cutting and wood carving
  13. 13 - A manual of wood carving (1891)
  14. 14 - A manual of wood carving (1909)
  15. 15 - A text-book of wood (1921)
  16. 16 - A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-working Machines (1872)
  17. 17 - A Treatise on Wood Engraving (1861)
  18. 18 - Advanced projects in woodwork (1912)
  19. 19 - Amateur in the art of carpentry and joinery (1873)
  20. 20 - Amateur joinery (1916)
  21. 21 - An outline course of lessons in wood-working (1890)
  22. 22 - Applied science for wood-workers (1919)
  23. 23 - Art and Craft of Cabinet Making (1891)
  24. 24 - Art and education in wood-turning (1921)
  25. 25 - Bench Work in Wood (1888)
  26. 26 - Bench work in wood, a course of study (1905)
  27. 27 - Berlin course of easy wood-work (1895)
  28. 28 - Book of Garden Furniture (1903)
  29. 29 - Book of Period Furniture (1914)
  30. 30 - Carpentry and woodwork (1911)
  31. 31 - Carpentry for boys - Elementary woodwork (1893)
  32. 32 - Carpentry made easy (1857)
  33. 33 - Carpentry (1916)
  34. 34 - Colonial furniture in America (1901)
  35. 35 - Constructive carpentry (1912)
  36. 36 - Correlated courses in woodwork and mechanical drawing (1912)
  37. 37 - Craftsman Homes (1909)
  38. 38 - Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods (1852)
  39. 39 - Design and construction in wood (1913)
  40. 40 - Early English furniture & woodwork (1922)
  41. 41 - Educational Woodworking for Home and School (1908)
  42. 42 - Elementary Turning For Use In Manual Training (1907)
  43. 43 - Elementary woodwork, a series of sixteen lessons (1893)
  44. 44 - Elementary Woodworking (1903)
  45. 45 - Elementary woodworking projects (1922)
  46. 46 - Elements of woodwork (1911)
  47. 47 - English church woodwork (1917)
  48. 48 - Essentials of Woodworking (1908)
  49. 49 - Exercises in Woodworking (1889)
  50. 50 - Farm Woodwork (1919)
  51. 51 - First Lessons in Woodworking (1888)
  52. 52 - Forty Lessons in Carpentry Workshop Practice (1896)
  53. 53 - Fret-sawing and wood-carving (1875)
  54. 54 - Furniture designing and draughting (1907)
  55. 55 - Furniture making, advanced projects in woodwork (1912)
  56. 56 - Furniture masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe (1923)
  57. 57 - Furniture of the olden time (1903)
  58. 58 - Furniture of the Pilgrim century 1620-1720 (1921)
  59. 59 - Furniture (1911)
  60. 60 - Hand-book of wood engraving (1881)
  61. 61 - Handbook on wood preservation (1916)
  62. 62 - Handwork in Wood (1910)
  63. 63 - History of the lumber industry of America (1907) volume 2
  64. 64 - History of the lumber industry of America (July 1906)
  65. 65 - Home furniture making (1910)
  66. 66 - How To Make Cedar Chests (1918)
  67. 67 - How to make common things (1906)
  68. 68 - How to teach wood finishing (1914)
  69. 69 - Intarsia and marquetry (1903)
  70. 70 - Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry (1827)
  71. 71 - Lathe Work For Beginners (1922)
  72. 72 - Learn by doing a scheme of simple woodwork (1906)
  73. 73 - Light and heavy timber framing made easy (1909)
  74. 74 - Lumber and its uses (1914)
  75. 75 - Lumber, its manufacture and distribution (1922)
  76. 76 - Manual instruction woodwork (1892)
  77. 77 - Manual training for common schools (1910)
  78. 78 - Manual Training in Education (1896)
  79. 79 - Modern American Lathe Practice (1907)
  80. 80 - Modern carpentry and joinery vol2
  81. 81 - More Craftsman homes (1912)
  82. 82 - Old oak furniture
  83. 83 - One hundred book plates engraved on wood (1901)
  84. 84 - Operation of wood-working factories and machinery (1873)
  85. 85 - Operators Handbook for Wood-Working Machinery (1885)
  86. 86 - Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making (1826)
  87. 87 - Problems in farm woodwork (1919)
  88. 88 - Problems in furniture making (1913)
  89. 89 - Problems in Wood-turning (1909)
  90. 90 - Problems in woodwork (1917)
  91. 91 - Problems in Woodworking (1905)
  92. 92 - Projects for beginning woodwork and mechanical drawing (1912)
  93. 93 - Safety in Woodworking (1918)
  94. 94 - Shavings and sawdust (1884)
  95. 95 - Shop work: joinery, cabinet-making, carpentry (1918)
  96. 96 - Some practical hints on wood (1879)
  97. 97 - Specimens of early wood engraving
  98. 98 - Studies in wood decay (1921)
  99. 99 - Text-book of modern carpentry (1858)
  100. 100 - The art and craft of cabinet-making (1891)
  101. 101 - The art of mordanting and staining and the complete treatment of wood surfaces (1911)
  102. 102 - The art of wood carving (1867)
  103. 103 - The art of wood-engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century (1888)
  104. 104 - The boy craftsman (1905)
  105. 105 - The Carpenter's New Guide (1867)
  106. 106 - The expert wood finisher (1921)
  107. 107 - The furniture of our forefathers
  108. 108 - The Illustrated wood worker (1829)
  109. 109 - The New Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant (1874)
  110. 110 - The preservation of the exterior of wooden buildings (1911)
  111. 111 - The preservation of wood (1919)
  112. 112 - The seasoning of wood (1917)
  113. 113 - The sloyd system of wood working (1892)
  114. 114 - The use of wood for fuel (1919)
  115. 115 - Tool processes in woodworking (1919)
  116. 116 - Tools and Machines (1903)
  117. 117 - Training in wood-work, for use in training and technical school (1902)
  118. 118 - Wood A Manual of The Natural History (1908)
  119. 119 - Wood and its uses (1874)
  120. 120 - Wood and other organic structural materials (1917)
  121. 121 - Wood carving design and workmanship (1903)
  122. 122 - Wood carvings in English churches (1910)
  123. 123 - Wood conversion by machinery (1876)
  124. 124 - Wood finishing, comprising staining, varnishing, and polishing (2012)
  125. 125 - Wood in aircraft construction (1919)
  126. 126 - Wood Pattern Making (1906)
  127. 127 - Wood preservation in the United States (1909)
  128. 128 - Wood preserving terms (1922)
  129. 129 - Wood pulp and its uses (1911)
  130. 130 - Wood sculpture (1911)
  131. 131 - Wood turning, prepared for the use of students (1909)
  132. 132 - Wood Working, Wood Turning, & Patternmaking (1901)
  133. 133 - Wooden box and crate construction (1921)
  134. 134 - Wooden hull inspection & repair manual (1900)
  135. 135 - Wooden ship-building (1919)
  136. 136 - Wood-engraving to-day (1917)
  137. 137 - Wood-turning (1921)
  138. 138 - Wood-using industries of New York (1913)
  139. 139 - Wood-using industries of Quebec (1918)
  140. 140 - Wood-using industries of South Carolina (1913)
  141. 141 - Woodwork and mechanical drawing (1914)
  142. 142 - Woodwork course for boys (1893)
  143. 143 - Woodwork for beginners (1916)
  144. 144 - Woodwork for schools on scientific lines (1909)
  145. 145 - Woodwork for Secondary Schools (1916)
  146. 146 - Woodwork for the grades (1912)
Michael Stevenson
★★★★★
"Invaluable For The Self-Taught Woodworker!"

"Having muddled my way through about 6 years as a hobbyist woodworker, I wish I'd found this collection of books first. It provides excellent instruction on basic to advanced woodworking techniques.

This collection is a must-have for any novice — or even experienced — woodworker. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up."

Michael StevensonBrooklyn, NY

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Tracking down used copies of these manuals would run you north of $596 — if you could find them at all.

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Order today and we'll take 90% OFF the collector's value.

Yes, that's right. If you act right now, you can add the Ultimate Woodworking Compendium — Shortlist included — to your order…

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Here's What You Get Today:

The Ultimate Woodworking Compendium — 147 Books
  • The Complete 147-Book ArchiveOver 25,000 pages of original workshop manuals published between 1826 and 2012 — the largest digitized archive of its kind. ($596 value)
  • Walter's Shed-Builder's Shortlist — the 12 manuals to start with for any outdoor build, with a note on exactly what to take from each one. Included.
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Note: many manuals in this archive were published decades — even a century — ago. Building methods and materials standards have evolved; always check current local building codes and adapt older techniques accordingly. The builder assumes responsibility for his own project.

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PLEASE READ THIS DISCLAIMER:

These plans are published here for educational purposes. Some of the older plans here will often need modifications for modern materials, and may need modifications to update them to modern safety standards. They provide conceptual information. Periodic changes in the National Design Specifications for Wood Construction, changes in building materials, snow load variations and the serious impact of deviations from the plan make it imperative that professional services be utilized to tailor these plans to your situation. The creator of this makes no warranty for these plans. You are solely responsible for how you use them. To summarize, we don't encourage anyone to build some of the major projects shown here "as-is" unless you are experienced enough in construction to make allowances to modernize some of the older plans. If you are interested in creating projects from these plans and don't have the requisite knowledge to bring them to modern safety standards, we insist you consult a professional.

Material quantities listed are indicative and intended for preliminary budgeting only. They should not be considered final totals. Minor variations or omissions may exist. Always verify with your local supplier or a trusted building professional before ordering materials.

Do not purchase materials or attempt to build this shed project unless you have studied the information provided thoroughly, and have verified all dimensions and material requirements for yourself. Also verify that the plans conform to local building codes and practices. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information and design, the user is ultimately responsible for the use of this information. You, the plan buyer and builder, assume all risks and responsibilities associated with building this shed/barn.