Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making

Reader Reviews
When I started making boxes, a friend of mine gave me a copy of David Freedman's book Box-Making Basics. That book contains photographs of a variety of boxes, has large line drawings to illustrate details, has precise measurements for each box, and has a numbered step-by-step procedure for making each box. That book enabled me to make several of the boxes in the book with relative ease. Stowe's book, on the other hand, really disappointed me. Although it has colored photographs of the boxes, they are so small that it's difficult to see what's going on in them. His procedures for actually building the boxes are way too general for me to follow. In a couple of sentences, he attempts to describe five or six procedures at a time. He has no dimensions for any of the boxes. There are no line drawings to further illustrate what he's trying to show in the tiny photographs. If I had used this book when I first started making boxes, I probably would have built book cases instead.