Big Book of Wooden Locks: Complete Plans for Nine Working Wooden Locks - Softcover

Offering clear and illustrated step-by-step instructions, "The Big Book of Wooden Locks" will enable even the most novice of wood workers to turn out functioning wood locks. Combining fun and function, this is an ideal and enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, school wood shop, and community library woodworking instructional reference collections. --Michael J. Carson, Midwest Book Review

These unique projects for making working locks entirely from wood will present an an exciting challenge to woodworkers. “The Big Book of Wooden Locks” presents all of the most popular wooden lock projects of Tim Detweiler, the “Lock Man,” from his first two book. Detweiller's beautiful and complex wooden lock designs have captivated woodworkers around the world.These amazing projects are all fully functional and are constructed entirely in wood, with no metal parts. Step-by-step instructions, complete dimensioned drawings, and color photographs give readers complete information on constructing each project. These intricate designs will challenge readers’ woodworking skills, teach techniques for creating wooden mechanisms and puzzles, and produce impressive, beautiful creations that testify to the builder’s skill and woodworking accomplishments.From a simple warded lock with key to a complex push-button combination lock, these projects are fantastic conversation starters and make highly impressive gifts.